A Question on Breeding Genetics.....

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8)Ok here's some questions for someone with a "positive" type of knowledge....no guesses or assumptions please..

Ok, the original line of albino boas... only one has been brought into captivity....that means that ALL boas that are het, albino, albino + anyother trait...etc... anything that has to do with the original strain of albino....is related? Is this true? It has to be, otherwise how would it get the albino flaw in the genes? Am I right on this?

Also, say I have one heterozygous male...and 2 heterozygous females...all three "unrelated"...how could this be? They all had to get the original flaw for albinism, from the original one albino caught.... Isnt it just a "diluted" blood, but the same regardless? Kind of like 3rd cousins or whatever??

So, how do I, when I outbreed my offspring to keep them clean...how do I keep from just, in the long run, inbreed them?

Say I breed these and get albinos... I take my best looking albino, and put the rest in a "non breeding status"... and so I take this albino boa, and breed him to a completely unrelated boa, just some random boa I pick up from a reptile show... that means, ALL the offspring I ever get, I could never breed to anything with albino genes because I'd just be inbreeding it... um, wait a sec Im dizzy...

Does this mean, that as long as boas arent being imported on a large scale, or atleast on a nessicary level... does that make the boa "pet trade" just one big incest pool?

How do I take this one pick of the litter albino, and get it as far as possible from any other albino on the face of this earth, genetically speaking....?

One last question, does this make sense?

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8) Aw come on now... Dont ignore me... It'll only make me that much more annoying, and obnoxious.... So hook up the feed back.... chop chop!!!

[Linda]

I'd give an answer, but I'd only be guessing. I do think there was more than one Original Albino though. I believe there were 3 males and 1 female. I think Pete Kahl purchased one from that group. Anyway there's an article on his web site about it. It doesn't say the group of Albinos were siblings, but it doesn't say they're not. It also doesn't say what happened to the others. Hey, I want to know what happened to those other 3 original albinos. Did they ever breed? What happened to them? ??? Anyway you're not being ignored.
Linda