So I was potentially looking into buying a pair of black pastels to breed but I hear tell that their super form is known for having some deformities? Like duckbilling and apparently serious spinal problems.
Now, I'm fairly certain this is an issue of a narrow gene pool since if I'm not mistaken, a lot of line breeding went on with the black pastels but from what I read upon further searching, breeding a cinnamon with a black pastel will still give you a decent chance of producing a solid black snake with less of a chance of deformities occurring. Which seems just fine to me but I also read some things about how people didn't want to breed their cinnamons and black pastels together because it will make the resulting offspring browner. This seems kind of ridiculous to me because I've seen super cins and I've seen super black pastels and they honestly don't appear to be any blacker or browner than one or the other in my opinion.
Is it really that common that people want to sacrifice the health of the animals they produce just for appearances because I have a difficult time wrapping my head around that mentality.
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