Breeding siblings

[Manni K]

Hi guys.. This may sound like a dumb q. I absolutely love the loom of albinos so looking at getting a male albino to pair with my female normal... I know il get 100% het albino from that..

So here comes my q.

Can i breed the sibling with each other or with the father 2 get more albinos..

It doesnt aound right but read it on another site... But just want 2 b sure.

Thank you

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[Aercadia]

Hello! :) New here as well, but here is my understanding:

Snakes do not suffer from inbreeding the way mammals do. As long as you have two healthy animals, they are fine to be bred to siblings or parents (called Line Breeding), and this is a common and accepted practice, often intentionally to strengthen certain traits or proof morphs.

However, long-term inbreeding may cause problems to start showing up, so adding new genetic material into your breeding project is recommended (called Outcrossing). Generally if you Line Breed one generation, you will then want to consider Outcrossing the next generation.

Here's an older thread that touches on this subject: Line Breeding / Outcrossing
Hope this helps! :)

[anicatgirl]

Hello! New here as well, but here is my understanding:

Snakes do not suffer from inbreeding the way mammals do. As long as you have two healthy animals, they are fine to be bred to siblings or parents (called Line Breeding), and this is a common and accepted practice, often intentionally to strengthen certain traits or proof morphs.

However, long-term inbreeding may cause problems to start showing up, so adding new genetic material into your breeding project is recommended (called Outcrossing). Generally if you Line Breed one generation, you will then want to consider Outcrossing the next generation.

Here's an older thread that touches on this subject: Line Breeding / Outcrossing
Hope this helps!

This is also my understanding. That it's not bad so long as you don't do it for too many generations. You would be OK to breed sire to child or sibling to sibling.

[Manni K]

Thank you souch

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[ARBallMorphs]

Uhm,

This is how all morphs came to be,

Imagine they find a snake that is different like the Hypo or Pastel they breed it to a snake in their own collection to try and proof it genetic then when the eggs hatch and the hatchlings are not Hypo or some of the babies are pastel they will try to breed a hatchling to the Hypo or Pastel parent to try and see if it is a recessive morph (hypo) or if it has a super form (pastel/super pastel)

All Morphs got established by inbreeding a the chance of finding 2 the same morphs in the wild is kinda low and even if they would find 2 the same morphs in the wild it is like a 95% chance they are either siblings or parent+child.

I hope this answers your question

kind regards

Andrew

[John1982]

Ball pythons seems pretty resistant to line breeding in general. I personally wouldn't breed consecutive, related animals before outcrossing.