Monster Pieds?

[Brandon Osborne]

I've been hearing that rumor for many years, as well. I also heard a couple of new ones recently: one is that pieds may have somewhat weaker immune systems (heard that from a pathologist who necropsied a few pieds out of someone's collection that died of pneumonia) and one is that people used to think pied females would be infertile or subfertile like female deserts or caramels.

I would have to question a pathologist that would make such a statement after testing only a few animals from one person's collection. Certain pathogens can reek havoc not only on the immune systems, but on the physiology of the animals. To make such a broad statement with very minimal research is irresponsible in my opinion.

I have to believe that there is some grain of truth, however small, in some of these rumors that pied is a "weaker" gene.

Is this based on what the pathologist said, what you have read, or from experience? I feel quite the opposite. I have never had a single issue in regards to health from any pied. I have a very nice group and have friends that would say the same about theirs.