Kathryn_
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I notice quite regularly people advertising discounts on pairs of animals from the same season. In the thread on SR's pairs of albino olives I asked a question that seems to have been lost in the thread without getting answered, which was, are these animals siblings, or are SR fortunate enough to have two sets of het or homo albino animals to breed from? If they are siblings, are they being offered on the understanding that people are going to attempt to breed them? Would people breed them? Do those people understand the potential consequences?
My concern with a lot of "morphs" is that as they become more desirable and more available, people will become more and more inclined to inbreed sibling or cousin animals for the obviously quite valueable offspring, which makes the chance of recessive health problems cropping up exponentially more likely the longer it goes on. What are other people's thoughts on this?
I should point out that I'm not criticising SR in any way, they're just the most recent example I've seen here of pairs of animals being offered that are assumedly from the same clutch.
My concern with a lot of "morphs" is that as they become more desirable and more available, people will become more and more inclined to inbreed sibling or cousin animals for the obviously quite valueable offspring, which makes the chance of recessive health problems cropping up exponentially more likely the longer it goes on. What are other people's thoughts on this?
I should point out that I'm not criticising SR in any way, they're just the most recent example I've seen here of pairs of animals being offered that are assumedly from the same clutch.