Yes you can. From my understanding Cathy Love (the lady that done the corn snake book) done alot of inbreeding to establish colours and morphs, I dont think she ever had any problem. You can breed brother to sister, son to mum, dad to daughter. It may seem wrong to us but they do it in the wild
With 27 beautiful corns I definitely have snakeitus :-)
im not sure, i just always think of inbreeding and the deformations that some animals and humans come out with. you cant really deform a snake that much i guess but what about snakes with 2 heads and stuff like that. can that be an outcome of inbreeding of snakes?? or can that come normally anyway?
1.0.0 corn snake - Flicka 1.0.0 Rainbow Boa - Luna
'inbreeding problems' work exactly the same in any living organism, even plants.
The problems all come down to genetics. If there is some problem that is simple recessive (just as amel is) then inbreeding increases the chances of both parents passing that recessive gene to their children which would make it homozygous (visual). A slightly different scenario is if a problem is polygenic (a cumulative result of many different genes, just as zigzag is) then inbreeding gives an increased chance of the problem trait being inherited and intensified.
Notice in the above examples there is also a morph named in brackets. Sometimes inbreeding is necessary to recover recessive morphs as visuals or to increase the effect of selectively bred morphs.
Related breeding?
Posted - 06/12/2011 : 23:36:12
