Morph problems

[RWillinnable]

A question for all the breeders here. I have noticed that the way most breeders breed is they breed an offspring back to a parent and keep doing this until they get a breeding factory. So obviously many of these snakes are inbred. My question is whether this may cause any advers affects to these snakes and if so, what those may be and what the probabilityof these adverse affects are? I have heard that inbreeding is not as bad as many of us had been led to believe, so I am just curious.

Rachel

[basuca]

I will like to ad some thing to hes Q can they breed brothers and sisters, of just father and sun?

[Shelby]

I do not breed snakes (yet) but I will tell you what I have gathered.

First off, an offspring to parent breeding is not nearly so close as a sibling to sibling breeding. You don't see sibling breedings so often as parent/offspring.

Most reptiles handle inbreeding quite well, however you may have seen that there are burmese python and boa constrictor morphs born without eyes on a more than usual basis.. this may be due to inbreeding.