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how many times can i do it? im talking like brother X sister or father X daughter.. how healthy will those babies be? right now the babies i got from my breeder pair are 2 girls and one boy... im thinking about letting them breed then feeding them off... would this work.. im under the impression that one generation of inbreeding will completely mess things up.. someone set me strait on this... dave
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"i have a mortal wound!"
"where? where does it hurt?"
"oh, pretty much around the big bloody spot"
"come inside. ill get the neosporin. da na na na na - NEO! ba na na na na na na - SPORIN! blee nee nee......."

i ve heard up to 20 times, but not sure how correct this is,
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pipatic.tripod.com/reptileworld

if you kept it all in the family there might not be any problems for a while. you can inbreed just add in some new blood every few generations. thats basically what i was told when i asked about inbreeding.

Quite honestly, why does the question of inbreeding even come into consideration when you're talking about "feeders"? Pets, yes, I would understand, but unless the inbred feeders explode when touched, it's not really a consideration. If you have a retarded feeder, with say, three heads, your snake will still eat it.

the first litter my mouse had failed to thrive. after 6 weeks they were about fuzzy size and their eyes hadnt opened. so i got a new male and his offspring are perfectly healthy, weaned, and growing bigger everyday. i assume this was a result of inbreeding. no, its not necessarily from inbreeding but i figured thats the most probable reason. i just want to know how many times i can breed the children back before anything like this comes up. dave
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"i have a mortal wound!"
"where? where does it hurt?"
"oh, pretty much around the big bloody spot"
"come inside. ill get the neosporin. da na na na na - NEO! ba na na na na na na - SPORIN! blee nee nee......."

untill 2 heads appear and or exploding when touched /four tails /3 eyes lol lol lol
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pipatic.tripod.com/reptileworld

It's hard to say--I wouldn't take it any further than 3 or 4 generations, as you don't know what the person you got them from has been doing.

It is an issue, because inbreeding VERY frequently affects fertility.

Rodents have been inbred for hundreds of generations. That is how strains of rodents are created. As animals show defects they are removed from the gene pool until all the recessive or unwanted traits are gone. Once the animals is as near to identical as possible, stable and has the traits desired, it is a strain and is maintained by inbreeding.

Not only is inbreeding OK, but it is far less risky than bringing in new animals. The risk of a disease getting into a closed colony that lives in close quarters is too great.

DeMak

Do not worry about inbreeding, and pay no attention to those who are misinformed, or uneducated. For your purposes, inbreed away, your snakes will be fine, and so will your rodents.