Quote Originally Posted by C&H Exotic Morphs View Post
And this is the issue.
All 3 of those pairings produce living offspring.
You don't end up with a greater number of eggs going bad during incubation, hatchlings dying in the egg, or deformed babies.
So how exactly are they incapable of producing living offspring?

Eggs can't be reabsorbed or become slugs after a female Ovys. And the males sperm doesn't met the follicle until a female Ovys. So if these pairings were "lethal" you would have some visual issue with either the eggs or hatchlings right?
have you ever seen a baby carrying 2 calico genes or 2 spider genes? you haven't because they don't live. they usually don't make it far enough into the incubation to even be seen. eggs go bad in clutches all the time even if there isn't a super. when it does happen because a super spider or calico is in them early on in incubation it's chalked up to be "just another bad egg." theres been discussions on it before with people that are much more knowledgable in genetics than i'll ever be.. let me see what i can find.