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Originally Posted by Leighanne
Aawwwww, those Babies are SO cute!!! Hey where do you live?? Can I come to your house sometime!? LOL  Those "twins", are they gonna live?? Poor guys! |
These twins were not viable and were put down immediately.
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How does that happen? Is it from all the inbreeding??
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Twinning seems to be predisposed in this female, just like some humans seem to be more prone to twinning. She (a snow het hypo motley) had twins in 2003 when bred to an unrelated male (lavender het amel) and had these when bred to a different unrelated male, a hypo charcoal.
I don't think that the birth defects we find in our herps are necessarily related to inbreeding, and I haven't noticed a higher rate when the hatchlings are the result of inbreeding. There's a certain chance that things will just go wrong in any species. In humans the rate is significant, for example:
· In China the rate was 13.1 per 1000 births (1.3%) in 1987 and 1996.
· In developing countries it is approx 78.6/1000 or 7.86%.
· In Arizona in 1995 there were 19/1000 (1.9%) with 0.6% of births being stillbirths.
Given the hundreds of hatchlings we've produced here and only a handful of birth defects, it seems we're actually lower than that rate.
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