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Posted by Fred Albury on June 18, 2002 at 11:19:14:

In Reply to: phases... posted by Dean Alessandrini on June 18, 2002 at 10:19:14:

: I was thinking along the lines of locality types and naturally occuring variations. There seems to be a lot more natural variotion in yt's than in the other subs

: I hope we never end up doing the whole hypo, flame, creamsicle, motley, blah blah blah...

: never never never.

People tend to want a certain"look" that they can identify with. Ironic, because I have found in some snakes that within their LOCALITY range, there is a wide variation in color and pattern. We end up picking the one pattern from that locality that WE like best and calling it the poster boy for that locality, when in fact it often isnt at all. Many alterna, for example have WIDE variations in color and pattern among LOCALITY SPECIFIC groups.

Every year I get people asking me for Red Faced Eastern Indigos. I tell them that I produce Red Faced Easterns, but that I DONT breed for RED.
I breed for as unrelated a bloodline as I can possible get, no siblings, no son to mother breedings, no inbreeding. I breed for the health of the animal, not his color or pattern. Line breeding scares me a bit, esp with snakes as valuable and rare as most Drymarchon, esp Easterns.

My opinion,
Fred

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that makes sense... Dean Alessandrini 06/18/02 (2)
- Re: that makes sense... dan felice 06/19/02 (1)
  - yellowtails can be psycho? lol n/p Dean Alessandrini 06/19/02 (0)

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: : I was thinking along the lines of locality types and naturally occuring variations. There seems to be a lot more natural variotion in yt's than in the other subs : : I hope we never end up doing the whole hypo, flame, creamsicle, motley, blah blah blah... : : never never never. : : People tend to want a certain"look" that they can identify with. Ironic, because I have found in some snakes that within their LOCALITY range, there is a wide variation in color and pattern. We end up picking the one pattern from that locality that WE like best and calling it the poster boy for that locality, when in fact it often isnt at all. Many alterna, for example have WIDE variations in color and pattern among LOCALITY SPECIFIC groups. : Every year I get people asking me for Red Faced Eastern Indigos. I tell them that I produce Red Faced Easterns, but that I DONT breed for RED. : I breed for as unrelated a bloodline as I can possible get, no siblings, no son to mother breedings, no inbreeding. I breed for the health of the animal, not his color or pattern. Line breeding scares me a bit, esp with snakes as valuable and rare as most Drymarchon, esp Easterns. : : My opinion, : Fred

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