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#1484012
Rubber boas
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Breeding brothers and sisters 
What would happen if i breeded a brother mouse and a couple of sister mice together. Would they breed
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10/19/07 11:07pm
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#1484136
JackAsp
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Message To: Rubber boas In reference to Message Id: 1484012
Breeding brothers and sisters
They would breed, but in the long run you’d have a less healthy colony. Pretty much everything is carrying bad recessives for something. As long as it’s just a recessive, it can bounce around in the gene pool forever and have most of the offspring come out fine, since a male whose carrying a recessive for, say, a bad respiratory system, isn’t going to give that actual characteristic to his offspring if he mates with an unrelated female who doesn’t even have that gene. Meanwhile, she may be carrying a recessive gene for a problematic food allergy, or an immune system problem, or whatever, but as long as the male doesn’t also carry that same gene, no harm no foul. The more homogenous the gene pool, the more genes match up, and that’s how you get inbreeding problems. Probably nothing as dramatic as banjo-playing little flipper-mice; but a lower survival rate of offspring is not improbable at all.
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10/20/07 04:23am
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#1484698
Rubber boas
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Message To: JackAsp In reference to Message Id: 1484136
Breeding brothers and sisters
I am just breeding for foodfor my baby corn snake but i get what your saying
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10/20/07 07:43pm
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#1485046
JackAsp
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Message To: Rubber boas In reference to Message Id: 1484698
Breeding brothers and sisters
If all you’re trying to do is make sure you have pinkies right now, it might not matter if there’s inbreeding issues or not. But then again, it might. The problem recessive might be something that results in akmost immediate death, so the mother ends up eating them before the snake does. You can try, of course, but it’s so much easier to just give up and buy a bag of frozen ones. Breeding exactly enough for one individual snake, without ending up with way more mice than you want, is never easy.
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10/21/07 01:35am
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#1485223
Rubber boas
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Message To: JackAsp In reference to Message Id: 1485046
Breeding brothers and sisters
I know its easier but my corn snake wont eat frozen so i have to breed. No worries
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10/21/07 11:53am
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#1524808
Cormious
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Message To: Rubber boas In reference to Message Id: 1485223
Breeding brothers and sisters
With mice costing an average of 2.50 each, why even ask this question? just buy a male to go with the group of females, and feed the offspring of those pairs to your snake.
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11/24/07 12:51pm
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Rebecca Wright
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Message To: Cormious In reference to Message Id: 1524808
Breeding brothers and sisters
Well if your going to breed the brother to the sisters (which i dont recomend at all) just make sure all the babies get eaten by Mr. Snake before they end up breeding back to dad or mom... which would cause even more messed up babies... personally id rather spend the $2 and get a new male....
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11/25/07 01:31am
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