quick genetics question

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Originally Posted by Jay_Bunny

Your question about the chances of the offspring being pied has been answered but I do have something to say about breeding related individuals. Breeding related individuals will not bother the offspring for the first few generations, but repeatedly breeding related snakes (line breeding) can cause issues with the offspring. Ralph Davis has a video on youtube about some line-bred albinos and one clutch came out pretty bad, so just make sure not to line breed and you should be fine.

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defects caused by line breeding require a recessive defect to already be present. sure you can't know if ones there or not, but to put a number on how many generation you can go....well you can't know, really it can happen in 2 generations or 1 generation breeding back to the parent.

my rat colony started from 1 male and 3 females and I got to be on 15 generations of line breeding by now. nothing wrong with them yet. still making snake food.