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I have been reading alot adds and notice that a lot of male breeders tend to have the comment that the owners did not hold on to any of the females from the cluch to breed back to him. I was just wondering why would you want to breed the dauthers back to there father.

I thought normally inbreeding is look down upon.

matt

inbreeding being "looked down on" is more of a human ethics thing....
While inbreeding consistantly can cause problems- defect, etc-- the having a daughter back to father or grandfather isn't a huge problem.

Example: You want albino spiders
You need to breed an albino to a spider
some of the babies will be spider het albino

You can take a spider het albino and breed it back to the original albino-- and have a shot at albino spiders....

In a sense- its "cheaper" to use daughters back to parents- instead of maintaining multiples of every morph...

If you wanted to avoid inbreeding-- but wanted albino spiders you could have 2 albinos and 2 spiders-- breed both pairs together and make 2 clutches of spider het albinos--- then cross them over to the other father albino...

What a lot of ppl. dont want to do is breed and feed double the animals for one project....

make sense?

~Beth
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In addition,

Inbreeding is the reason we have purebred dogs, so it is not something that just happens in the herp world. Breeding closely related animals increases the possibility that any bad genes in a line will show up, but it does not cause genetic disease.

A first or second generation pairing has very little chance of "problems", however that percentage increases the more times you breed individuals in the same line. As a result, most breeders will not "inbreed" multiple times in the same line.
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Thanks,
Amy

My Boids

Yea the tightest inbreeding would be full sister to full brother. I think You would be safe to do this 3 times F3's or untill You seen a loss of vigor in some of the babys. I try and line breed rather then inbreed,like Aunt to Nephew or Grand father back to a grand Daughter.. Just remember full sister to brother is the tightest breeding they have the same Genes,where as Mother to Son they would have only half of the same genes.. I hope that helps You out alittle anyway.

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