It's not a mystery what inbreeding does, and I am rather tired of people on this forum pretending that balls are impervious to it. To assume that there will not be undesired results after a few generations of inbreeding is naive because that would assume your animals are not holding at least one potentially harmful gene. If we are at about generation 5 now, where will we be in a decade or two or three now that we are kicking the combos into gear? Will people not be breeding or keeping balls then? If you think people will be breeding them then, why this attitude of "Why do today what we could put off till tomorrow?" If we want to wait till we see visible debilitating (since harmless deformities like 6 supralabial pits on each side has been deemed okay with everyone) deformities that can ruin an entire line then I guess that's okay? Or is it taking advantage of the animals?
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