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... to the litter(s) produced from the Sharp x Kahl breeding? I have heard that there were not compatible, but always wondered what happened to the babies. Were they put to sleep or sold? Would there even be a market for something that potentially carried both genes? Thanks.
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Strictly Serpents
Monty Montalbo/Niels Berg
619-602-4908

ive always heard that Brian Sharp put the entire litter down.

Why would you put the entire litter down? I mean even if they were all normals that carried one or the other gene, possibly even both. Why would you just dispose of a bunch of boas? I'm sure somebody would have taken them even if just as pets.

Was there some kind of obvious deformities?
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2.2 Columbian common boas (Zeus, Athena, Aphodite, Hades)
1.1 Corn snakes (Appolo, Boreas)
0.1 King snake tri striped cal morph (Helios)

if he bred the sharp strain albino to a kahl strain albino, all of the babies would have been 100% double het for both strains. Think of what kind of mess this could create with the albino world. There really isn't a way to distinguish between the 2 strains. Sure we can take an educated guess because the sharps tend to have more color than the kahls, but how do we know for sure that what we think is a sharp isnt actually a really pretty kahl strain albino?

Basically I think what that would lead to is mass confusion in the boa world. People would be selling sharps as kahls, kahls as sharps, there would be no telling which strand you actually bought until you bred it, and heaven forbid it's not the one you wanted, you wasted a breeding season on an albino that wasn't what it was sold to you as.

However, I would like to see the results of a dbl het x dbl het for both strains. The litter would obviously consist of a lot of hets, but there would be a 1 in 16 chance of having a sharp/kahl albino....... I wonder what that would have looked like....

Is it common practice to "dispose" of undesirable offspring? Ive wondered whats happens to the others if someone is only looking for the special one.
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Adrian De Leon
Hissenia Reptiles

I dont know. I only read on the net that he put them down. I believe he did this so that the 2 genes couldnt get mixed up. I dont know for sure though

I think most get disposed of on the anonymus seconds generic pet shop market. Then sold to complete novices as "pets", so far removed from the serious breeding crowd to never rejoin again, in most cases. A veritable and effective dead end to the genes, literally.
jsc

Brian,

Sold them off to a pet store.

It was a het Kahl male to Brian's albino female, 17 normal babies produced and they were sold to the pet trade as normals.

Straight from Brian!!
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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:
24.36 BRB
19.19 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats