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Inbreeding?

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Posted by: Nokturnel Tom at Wed Oct 19 12:22:31 2005   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Nokturnel Tom ]  
   

This is one very overated worry. I was interested in some Kings, and I knew where the guy selling them got his stock. So it is safe to assume the guy he got them from was selling him stock already a generation or two from his stock. Now breeder two has them, and he is selling another generation, to people who are breeding and selling those. If inbreeding was as brutal as some people suspect there would be nothing but mutant snakes out there, it is just ridiculous. You do not know until you breed two snakes and see the results, snakes in the wild inbreed for decades...it is no big deal in most cases. Furthermore who is to say the "new" blood you introduce into a project won't ruin a line which was just fine without outcrossing? Tom Stevens

   

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