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Old 05-29-2008, 01:52 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Question on genetics

yes i would, some people believe hybrids are wrong and some people believe they are fine as long as they are sold as hybrids. plus a blue snake x a brown snake would probaly just end up looking like a brown snake with some blue tint or something (maybe if it was a red snake x blue snake it would be more acceptable in my opinion), not nearly as pretty as a puget. so yes unless you purposly want two hybridize to species i would keep them seperated (ones of opposite sexes)
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Originally Posted by Lumpy View Post
So I'm asking this coming from the world of exotic bird breeding...

For those of you breeding, is there an ethical code for keeping blood lines pure? Like in the bird world an ethical breeder would not cross a Fischer's Love Bird with a Peach Faced. It would never happen in the wild, and the breeder would create birds with genetic impurity. The end result in most cases with birds is sterility in the cross bred young.

So, if you own an Eastern and a Puget Sound, assuming they were of opposite sex, would you house them seperately so as not to mess up natures balance?

Just curious.

Thanks

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