Question about recessive hairless genetics

My only experience with recessive hairless was nasty.

I had a friend call me and ask If I wanted some adult breeding nakeds and I had wanted some at that point so I said sure, bring me a 1.2 group :)

He went and picked up a group of 30 adults in another state and when he returned he brought me 3 he randomly picked out of the group of 30.
All 3 had large nasty tumors, the male was bleeding out of one on his skull cap, GROSS.
I froze them and gave them away to someone with larger snakes than I had.
I don't think he was able to breed any of them after all the troubles.

I'll take a double rex/velveteen any day :)

Hmmm. Well the hairless are a very sub-par breed. They should not be bred together. The females also tend to either not lactate or just don't have the mother instinct to take care of their young. When breeding hairless most people breed a hairless male to a het hairless female. We have been starting up some black dumbo hairless and some blue dumbo hairless.

Issues with hairless is the exact reason I only held back a couple males. I've never had rodent get cancer but I'm sure it is only a matter of time.

And hairless do have issues with scratches, I had the two males with their father who is full grown... they didn't really fight but the normal wrestling sessions left tons of scratches all over their skin which is why they don't live with him.

Hairless have a lot of issues. Mine are pets and with long term car you have to clean out their eyes every so often. They get nasty build up in their eyelids because they have no eyelashes to protect their eyes from stuff.

They can also have dry skin issues, which can be easily solved with some cream (if it gets to a point where the skin is flaking or peeling) and a high protein diet.

They also have a very different way of walking. Since they have no, or extremely curled whiskers, you'll notice that they sniff a lot more, and they tend to walk with their hands out-stretched to feel their way around better.

And yes, in nearly all cases of hairless that the public owns, you cannot successfully breed hairlessXhairless.