is it a bad idea to mate brother and sister vields ?

[sergio reyes]

i have a 8 month old male vield and 8 month old female and there brother and sister would it be a bad idea to let them mate ? and would there babies come out any different since there brother and sister?

 

[Leza]

ummm yeah.... that would be considered inbreeding. bad idea.

 

[yankfanthom]

i have a 8 month old male vield and 8 month old female and there brother and sister would it be a bad idea to let them mate ? and would there babies come out any different since there brother and sister?

You run the risk of a lot of birth defects. Besides... you can find a veiled mate for either of them without breaking the bank.

 

[Elizadolots]

hmmm.....I doubt it's that fraught with peril if it's only a one time thing. It's definitely not a good long term breeding concept though. "New Blood" is critical. But breeding to a close relative is often a tactic to lock in a desirable trait.

However, as noted, it's not going to be hard to find another male able to step up to the task so, unless there's some real reason to do it, I don't think there's much point to it.

 

[sergio reyes]

oh ok i see thanks alot guys. and how are translucent vield made ? like why do they come out to look that way ??

 

[Elizadolots]

how are translucent vield made ?

[parody]In a lab deep within the mountains of the great northwest. A team of mutant enthusiasts engage in an exacting process of selective cross breeding and irradiation to create ever more mind numbingly beautiful animals.[/parody]

 

[laurie]

Let me ask an easy question, would you mate with your sister? Same gene pool problems with chams. jmo

 

[sergio reyes]

[parody]In a lab deep within the mountains of the great northwest. A team of mutant enthusiasts engage in an exacting process of selective cross breeding and irradiation to create ever more mind numbingly beautiful animals.[/parody]

elizadolots- do you know where i could get more info about in translucent vields ??

 

[yankfanthom]

Let me ask an easy question, would you mate with your sister? Same gene pool problems with chams. jmo

You had to go there....

 

[Elizadolots]

Sergio, search the forums for Translucent Veileds. There have been a number of threads on them and the pictures are oh, so beautiful.

 

[JackP308]

http://www.reptilechannel.com/lizards/breeding-lizards/inbreeding-reptiles.aspx


This article has some of the pros and con for a brief read on Reptile inbreeding.

 

[Olimpia]

There's a lot of misconception that if siblings or cousins mate their offspring will automatically have disorders and malformations. This isn't true, there is enough variation that it is not a sure thing, although the risk likelihood is higher. So in theory you could, and you may have all perfectly well formed babies come from the pairing.

However, it isn't really doing anything for the species as a whole, and this is important. Just because you could doesn't mean you should. Especially if neither individual had a special trait that you'd like to exaggerate. You couldn't get translucents out of the blue if none of them have a gene for it. So it wouldn't add anything to the world of chameleons to inbreed like this.

If you really want to try breeding, which I don't recommend until you've read how expensive and time consuming rearing babies is, I'd see if you can get a friend to stud our their male, for example, or get another unrelated individual for one of yours.

 

[Action Jackson]

What do you think happens in the wild? Do you think they can tell who thier family members are? When they're born do they disperse over a large area so as to never come in contact with members of the same family? Maybe the females just breed with multiple males.

I'm just saying....