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pyromaniac
at Sat Jan 21 09:57:43 2012 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by pyromaniac ]
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I meant to say I will never keep anything with the Stillwater Hypo gene again.
Its just my opinion and I know some others that feel the same way.
I have owned 3 different pairs of Stillwater Hypos and a group of Red X Stillwater Hypos.
The first pair I owned looked healthy as hatchlings. But as they aged, they devolved kinks and knotted spines. One of them slept on its back. The first time seen that I thought it was dead but when I went to grab it, sprung to life. The other sibling crawled backwards instead of forward.
The second pair I had just up and died about the one year mark. plus they crawled funny on occasion. They just acted a little off.
The 3rd pair seemed totally fine. But every time I got eggs, they would go full term and die in the egg. That happen 2 years in a row.
I have heard similar thing from other people. I get emails from people asking the same questions. The most often question. Do you know why my Stillwater Hypo would just died randomly when all seem well.
I didn't see as much problems with my Kingsville X Stillwater crosses early on. Probably because they where outcrossed. But I did see little signs with each generations passed. 3rd generations deformity's and full term non hatching.
There was a reason people started calling them Golden Hypos. Because they recognized the weakness of the gene. So they outcrossed to make them stronger, plus they where no longer Locality animals.
I think they are beautiful animals. This is just my opinion and experiences. I sure there are people out there that have different opinions and experiences. by Jason Nelson
Jason has been breeding pits for decades, and I value his input. So far so good with mine, but with his experience in mind I do plan to breed away from Stillwater.
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Origin of Stillwater Hypo
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Bob
Pyromaniac AKA Greatballzofire
Keeping cats allows man to cohabitate with tigers. Keeping reptiles allows man to cohabitate with dinosaurs.
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Golden Hypo post - pyromaniac, Sat Jan 21 09:57:43 2012