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Just had a breeder for whom I have the highest regard tell me that he recently soured on albino to albino pairings, and that he was throttling back to albino to het match-ups going forward. I saw the issue raised on this forum several months back but it looked like a split decision to me, and I was never clear whether the bad experiences related to defects or poor production. I just acquired one half of the ingredients to albino spinners, and am now wondering where to go next. Appreciate your thoughts.

Do you have an albino spinner or a spinner het albino....
Travis
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Albino spider. Now the question is albino pin or pin het albino?

Either...but if I had my choice.....albino pin
Blood line is saturated enough that you shouldn't have to worry about recessive to recessive if that is a concern. Plus the morph possibilities...albino, pins, spiders, spinners, spider albinos, pin albinos, spinner albinos...good mix with good results. I would think because of the dominant genes crossing the recessive genes don't come into a play as much as crossing a recessive into the same.
Travis
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If he breeds albino spider x albino pin….all hatchlings will be albino. So the results would be….albino, albino spider, albino pin, albino spinner.

Pitoon

>>Either...but if I had my choice.....albino pin
>>Blood line is saturated enough that you shouldn't have to worry about recessive to recessive if that is a concern. Plus the morph possibilities...albino, pins, spiders, spinners, spider albinos, pin albinos, spinner albinos...good mix with good results. I would think because of the dominant genes crossing the recessive genes don't come into a play as much as crossing a recessive into the same.
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Jeff,
not much here...cooking and breeding..oh ya working too....are yoi setting up at Hamburg this month?
Call me sometime....love to chat
Travis
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Yea...we'll all be there , weather permitting....
man I hope it's done snowing this year....
hopefully everyone shows up with there income tax checks and a smile...LOL.....see you there...
keep breeding them girls....you have too many...like most of us...

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buy 2 pin het amels....cheaper than one pin albino....

....same amount of goodies....maybe more...

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I have a friend that used to produce 200 plus albinos a year. He and his partner were trying to get to a place where they weren't producing any hets, but were focussed on breeding albino to albino. They did not expect any decrease in producing viable hatchlings.

I hope this helps.

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Brian Gundy

www.for-goodness-snakes.com

I have produced albino x albino het. snow and have no problems with viability of the eggs or any deformities of the neonates once hatched.
I wonder if the problems you have heard of were from line or inbreed albinos or just animals with low health quality. There are many possible variables.
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