Weird Het Questions

FYI since that last thread I've talked with another breeder with a long string of no kinked caramels who also feeds rodents fed Mazuri 6F. He did mention some kinking his first year but I haven't heard back yet on a request if any other food could have also been used that year. I would suspect that if there is anything about Mazuri that makes it better for caramels it's an accident so hopefully we can figure it out before the formulation changes.

Also, I did find a site mentioning spinal problems in chickens exposed to copper:

http://www4.uwm.edu/cehsc/pilots/projects.html

And here is a recessive human disease requiring reduced copper diet:

http://health.nytimes.com/health/gui.../overview.html

Here is one that mentions Vitamin C deficiency (there is some sort of link between C and copper I don't understand) causing what sounds like kinking in fish:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC339614/

And for good measure here is one mentioning copper deficiency:


http://www.sciencedirect.com/science...661ddf9d30e148

Good info Randy. It would be nice to get a sort of meta-analysis of several breeders' stocks of caramel albinos and compare the rodent diet in each to the number of individuals with spinal deformities (and perhaps rank the severity of the deformities as well). Also, thanks for the links! I recall hearing about that Wilson's disease before. Apparently you can actually see the copper deposits building up in the eyes of an individual with the disorder if enough accumulate there.