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If you inbreed mice does it effect the snake?
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rachel132002
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Debateable I reckon BECUZZZ whenever naything in-breeds it's not AS healthy cuz of gene screw up so the only prob I can think is the snake may not get all the nutrition BUT think of how fast mice colonies increase and u cant really castrate lil mice now lol so I think a lot of mice we feed to our snakes probably are in-bred, try what you think but watch and if you think it's affecting your snake in a negative way stop?
Rachel
Rachel
Rachel
Vet nurse in training!
I would doubt that it would affect your snake but then I've never seen any studies done on how inbred mice result nutritional-wise
I think that the general health of the mice might be affected down the line so that if you were feeding older mice they might be nutritionally impaired compared with healthy mice. Like, maybe they wouldn't feed as well etc etc. Just an opinion tho...if it were me I wouldn't want to inbreed the mice excessively as it will mean you have less healthy/happy mice
I think that the general health of the mice might be affected down the line so that if you were feeding older mice they might be nutritionally impaired compared with healthy mice. Like, maybe they wouldn't feed as well etc etc. Just an opinion tho...if it were me I wouldn't want to inbreed the mice excessively as it will mean you have less healthy/happy mice
picklestick
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Inbreeding mice
Inbreeding is not entirelly a horrible concept.. The problem with it occours when a specific animal, of any type is carrying poor genes.. Dominant or recessive, they'll be coming out full force. Put it this way, if you had a great breeding stock with flawless genes, and you only bred say six of them together for the rest of their lives, then bred their offspring together and so on; you'd have perfect animals forever.. However, since rodents are probably (an understatement) the most prolific mammlas, it would be almost impossilble to propose you are actually dealing with a perfect set of animals. But to me, it boils down to this.. your snake is going to eat them and gain the most nutritional benefit it can from that animal, calcium from its bones, whatever is in its stomach, protein from its muscle etc... so, keep them on good feed.. breed the heck out of them and stop worrying.. I've never had a problem anyway.. Hope that helps..
Inbreeding is not entirelly a horrible concept.. The problem with it occours when a specific animal, of any type is carrying poor genes.. Dominant or recessive, they'll be coming out full force. Put it this way, if you had a great breeding stock with flawless genes, and you only bred say six of them together for the rest of their lives, then bred their offspring together and so on; you'd have perfect animals forever.. However, since rodents are probably (an understatement) the most prolific mammlas, it would be almost impossilble to propose you are actually dealing with a perfect set of animals. But to me, it boils down to this.. your snake is going to eat them and gain the most nutritional benefit it can from that animal, calcium from its bones, whatever is in its stomach, protein from its muscle etc... so, keep them on good feed.. breed the heck out of them and stop worrying.. I've never had a problem anyway.. Hope that helps..