I was talking with a nutjob today who is well known in the reptile community so I wont say his name. He was trying to discourage me from buying 100% Het albino hogs stating "They have a dying gene and only live a couple of years". Is this so? I remember when albino gophers were just comming around alot of them had a high mortality rate until breeders were able to breed out the inbreeding. Can someone please tell me this is not true. I would really like to work with these but not if they are going to die?
I would really love to hear from some of you 100% het keepers as well as you other hog owners.
Thanks
Jason
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Dying Gene ?
Jasonmc
May 22, 2004 10:17 PM
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Tim Madsen
May 24, 2004 04:07 PM
No they do not have a dying gene. But there does seem to be some hardiness problems and or furtility problems. I'm not sure that these problems are confined to the albino strains. Over all male North American hognose don't seem to do real well in captivity. Before anyone posts about the male they've had for blankety blank years, I'm speaking over all here. Hognose in general are prone to feeding problems. A close friend of mine, who I consider a hognose expert has a saying (A male hognose will woof on ya in a minute) in other words die for no apparent reason. The fact that the price for Albinos has stayed high for as long as it has, I think is a testament to there being problems with them. Whether these problems are unique to the albino strains or common to all North American Hognose is an interesting question.
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