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safe to breed?

Kuzco

Kuzco

eDavis
I recently decided (with help from Wade of Wade's Weptiles) that my VERY short corn snake who I thought was a striped hypo is actually a striped diffused and that she is so short because she may have what is referred to as "short tail" or spinal kinking.

I did read that in breeding trials that the offspring did not seem to have the short tail trait but I want to know if is safe to breed her or if she will be prone to binding or any other handful of breeding issues.
 
she is my only striped OR diffused and I'd like to breed a line of stripes.

But its not worth killing her over.
 
Kuzco said:
she is my only striped OR diffused and I'd like to breed a line of stripes.

But its not worth killing her over.
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Plus do you want to start off a breeding project with hatchlings that are less than 100% perfect and normal?

The latest morph guide I have here at work is 2008. It says short-tail is dominant or semidominant, although a short-tail to short-tail cross had not been done yet (planned for 2008).

The gene does not appear to have any effect on the health or vigor of affected specimens. It only affects the caudal vertebrae, in the tail, and is considered cosmetic only. (Paraphrasing Cornsnake Morph Guide, 2008, Charles Pritzel).

Hmm.
 
I had a few hatch out this year (from my granite stripe and Carol's sunkissed) that came out of the eggs with a stubby tail. Not really short at all, just nubbed on the end, like a bad shed or a deli lid amputation. Both parents have normal tails. Is this the same thing?

Sorry to hijack, as far as would I breed yours, I probably wouldn't if it is that noticeable.
 
well thats the thing, her tail is actually about the only part of her that doesnt seem to have spinal kinks. Her's start about 1/4 the way from the top and extend to just an inch or so above her vent.

I wasn't planning on breeding her unless I got some really reliable "go ahead"s from people wiser on the subject than I.
 
If the kinks are along her dorsal area, and not the caudal (tail) area, I wouldn't breed her. My thoughts are, that even if it's NOT genetic, and was an incubation "oops" noticable spinal kinks could very easily interfere with what already is a fairly delicate balancing act of a snake producing, and passing, eggs. JMO
 
If she has a whole bunch of kinks like that, I'd say definitely not. Part of the purpose of breeding is to perpetuate healthy stock. If we don't pay attention to that, we're going to eventually end up with animals like purebred dogs and cats... animals that may be "pretty", but are actually walking (or in the case of snakes, slithering) health problems.
 
Her kinking does not fit the definition of the Short-Tail gene. I would definitely not breed that snake.
 
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