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Bob Clark and I imported this Lavender Albino female last year. She was gravid, but skinny and in rough condition. She laid 7 eggs, 6 hatched. Right after she laid, she started eating. We spent the summer feeding her as much as she would eat and putting her weight back on. She is in perfect health now and one of her het sons has been courting her for the last couple of weeks. I came in this morning to find this.

Constrictors Unlimited

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MikeWilbanks@Constrictors.com

Man,

She looks so much better than she did in than she did in the African photos like a totally new animal. Good luck!

Debra and Diana
Camlon Reptiles

Wow, I'd say shes put on a ton of weight! Good luck, I hope to see some little Lavanders this spring!
Jason
Circle City Serpents

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Thats awsome that you got her to breed, but right back to her son? I'd more or less understand if it was a small time breeder who needed to, but you said Bob was invovled. He doesn't have any other hets or homozygous animals laying around?

IMO, incest is something to avoid when possible. But sometimes exceptions need to be made.
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>>Thats awsome that you got her to breed, but right back to her son? I'd more or less understand if it was a small time breeder who needed to, but you said Bob was invovled. He doesn't have any other hets or homozygous animals laying around?
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>>IMO, incest is something to avoid when possible. But sometimes exceptions need to be made.
>>http://www.ball-pythons.net
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- Joel Smith

"If you're not part of the solution, you're still part of the problem"

This animals was just imported from Africa this year. Every simple recessive gene has initially been pulled out through inbreeding.
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MikeWilbanks@Constrictors.com

Okie dokie, I thought it was just a homozygous and het being inbred from an already proven line. My bad.
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Greg
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