Rules of inbreeding?

[Sariel]

yea but same could be as the question you as a parent wouldnt wanna mate with your son or daughter would you?

We can always hope!!

[Monty]

We can always hope!!

lol yea especially in the world we live in.

[T&C Exotics]

From what I have been able to gather up on this subject is that no more than 5 generations should be line bred. I do not know why it was 5 generations and honestly I can not remember where I saw that but for me personally I only do 3 generations and then out cross. For example Male 1 and Female 1 breed, Baby 1 that is held back is bred to Female 1, Baby 2 is held back and bred to Baby 1 The resulting offspring are then bred to dofferent animals that are not related or to beter state that not directly related within 5 generations to the best of my knowledge.

The tricky part is when you have 1 Male and 3 Females because then you could take a baby from Female on and breed it to a baby frome Female 2 and so on which in my mind would be very different only because they would have different geentics from the different Females used for the breedings.

Another tricky one is multiple sire clutches.... Yeah lets not get into that part of it.

Basically what everyone is saying is that the inbreeding/line breeding can be done a lot of times and so far nothing has been seen that would indicate that this is bad for the snakes but the long term effects have not been seen yet as these animals have a long life span.

[fishboyUK]

You don't want your son and daughter mating do you? That's why its so much worse.

yea but same could be as the question you as a parent wouldnt wanna mate with your son or daughter would you?

Seeing as Ball pythons don't have morals these arguments don't really come into it do they. The question as someone already said is wether and when it would start to negatively effect them genetically/pysiologically

[Monty]

lol fishboy i know i was just stating it would be just as bad if someones kids mated just the same as a parent and kids. when it starts to effect them negetively isnt specifically known but most people stop at 5 generations from what i've read