Hey Guy, I think you may have missed something...



"Breed Sharp to Kahl to yield DH's. I'll say 25 babies... as I rarely seem to get litters larger then that and in an effort to stop the spread of genetic misfits we could use a smaller female and hope for even less. Raise them for 4 years and breed them. Hit 1/16 and see what happens."





IMO there are two obvious possible results for the dual Kahl/Sharp baby....



You can either visually tell it apart, or you can't.



If you can tell it apart than cool, you could see it in as few as one baby, very likely in 32. Where's Paul when you need him for the actual statistics?



If you can't visually discern the dual Kahl/Sharp baby, how many babies would you have to produce to get reach a high enough probability that you have produced one and can't tell it apart from the rest of the albinos?



We've all seen the magic litters were multiple low odds babies pop out in a small litter. Conversly there are many litters where there should have been better odds but weren't





The real bottom line for me is no matter if it is obvious or not, what to do with all the rest of the babies?



For the sake of this discussion let's say the Kahl/Sharp does look different, even looks cool. Let's also assume in your breeding trals you got 32 babies and the punnet square gods were totally fair and even for you. You now have.....



2 - "super whiz bang Kahl/Sharp" babies.

12 - Albino (what strain? het for the other strain?)

18 - Normals (pos het for one or the other or both strains)



What do you do with the 30 non "super whiz bang Kahl/Sharp" babies? Maybe eventually there will be a genetics test to determine the genes in an individual animal but I can't see that being cost effective on lower value animals.



I shudder to think what those babies released into the general population could do to breeding programs.
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Thanks,





Dave Colling



www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com







0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)

0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)



LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (05/26/2009):

36.51 BRB

29.42 BCI

And those are only the breeders



lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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