Jeff (Boaphile),
My questions come after reading your post in "one eye genetics" thread dated 12/16/08.... see snip from that thread below.
In your post, you mentioned an albino x albino breeding, with only one good eye between them, producing mostly healthy babies.

I have two questions that I hope you can help me with.

1. Does adding "relation" into the mix add further complication? Meaning, using the Joel DuBay scenario, if those two breeders (with only one good eye) were related, would that add a greater chance of the babies having eye defects?

2. How likely is it that breeding related albinos will produce other problems such as kinks, weakness, etc?
I have been told that breeding albino x albino, even NOT related, will result in all these bad things including one-eyes.

The reason I ask is because I have 2 adult albinos that are related.....cousins, I think......that I would like to breed.
The male albino has both eyes, the female has one.

Is this a DOOMED pairing, or is there a reasonable chance of producing healthy albino babies?


I know this is long, but I hope you can help clear this up.
THANKS.

Tomsey




Boaphile quote:
"All that being said, in about 2003 Joel DuBay bred a female Albino that was born with both eyes bad, to an Albino male with one bad eye. That's right. Just one eye between them. She produced a litter of 23 babies with only two bad eyes in the lot. This is the exact same result that may very well occur using two perfect Albinos. I think that proves that the bad eye thing in Albinos, though something that does occur, and is certainly genetic due to it's relationship to the Albino lines, is not a genetic characteristic that works like Albinism or any desirable "mutation" that we are familiar with. In other words, an Albino with a bad eye seems to be no more likely to produce an Albino with a bad eye than an Albino with two good eyes."

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