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Originally Posted by Crazydude

Royal family in England
Pharoahs of egypt


Where you going somewhere with this?
Sorry i had figured that most people do get that they had health problems, Maybe i wrongly assumed, Anyway, Many Pharoahs that have been found have defects that are recessive and assumed to be a result of inbreeding, Like the long narrow head of King Tut, a illness related to inbreeding is one theory of his death.

English royal family up until the past few centuries stayed in the family, along with some other groups of people, for keeping money in the family, and for political reasons. Most of these had health problems, shorter lifes, ext.

Thats what i meant when i said it, Just didnt elaborate because i thought it was common knowlage, My bad, sorry.

Littleindiangirl, I think in general, if done correctly it is ok, like your example, Another example to support you is domesticated cows. Look at cows in other countries ours are the only with black and white spots, and shaped like that, big fat ext. Most have protruding shoulders, skinny, weird looking and brown or black. these were selectivly inbreed to create the perfect milk cow. I dont know to much on that, but i dont beleive there are any drastic backfires from it.

But i dont beleive its necissary in anything, Mother-son, Sister-brother, that concerns me, Once its proven, OUTCROSS. Thats really all that can be done. I have heard of the 10 generation thing, like mentioned, but this may have been fine others not.

Think, Do you know anyone that tests for geneticly inherited diseases in any reptile? I dont mean things like adenovirus or IBD. More of things like wobble head ext. If a breeder has disease and mutation (detrimental mutation) free animals and inbreeds and no harm is done, Fine. But the average joe wont know what to look for, and will just take two animals, breed and sell. And that is similar to people flooding the market with low grade pastels ext. They are not needed, and do harm to the market, and morph. Where as inbreed animals that dont have a purpose flood the market with little genetic diversity, and possible health problems.

Think how often a kid, or guy, or lady goes into a petstore, they say reptiles are social, they get two, They grow up, low grade petstore animals that are from the same place, Usually same clutch or parents breed, The person wants to try hatching them. what do you get? No diversity and possible health problems.

Now there is always that line that should not be crossed, If we have ball pythons with seethrough skin, Or they start getting physical addaptations or mutations that are not related to patern or eye color. Like silkback bearded dragons, a perfect example of going to far.

Anyway, I dont think its needed, We want morphs as humans, but we can live without them. Now im not going to preach that we shouldnt have animals and specifically select what we want, if not gone to far its fine IMO. But if there is genetically inherited problems or problems do to relation of all animals, then it will go right back to the people inbreeding to create morphs.

Again, its the gray to look at, But in general, Inbreeding is not helpful in any form to genetic diversity. But does have use in creating our coveted morphs. Would you like it if over time all ball pythons were similar?

Ben