Clutchmates

I have 2 het pieds that are clutchmates and I will breed them to get my pied. I may breed that resulting pied back to one of the hets to get another pied because I want a male and female. After that I will probably sell the hets and breed the pieds into other things in my collection. So I guess I seem to be ok with it. Lol. I didn't realize where my opinion was going till I started to write this.


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I'm ok with it ethically, I just wasn't sure how it would come out genetically. I have some distant redneck family members and I'd hate to see snakes like that :P

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Originally Posted by moonlightgdess

Well I'm super smart and got two het pieds and it just occured to me they're from the same clutch. Should I write em off and find separate mates or would a clutch or two be ok?

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I would give it a shot for at least one clutch.

I have one project I'll be starting on soon that will require breeding back to the original snake in order to fully prove out...or disprove. Other than that, I have no need or desire to breed within family lines while there are so many quality animals being produced.

They'll be fine..I wouldn't worry going 2-3 generations deep

This type of breeding is very common in our hobby and will result in a perfectly fine clutch. Just think about the beginnings of any morphs you see today especially recessive stuff. They could go several generations trying to match hets and once they hit on the visual they breed that back to mom and dad to create more.