At 09:17 AM 1/24/00 -0500, Ann-Marie L. Roberts wrote:
>My original breeding pair
>(http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Reserve/1928/BreedingPairs.html)
>produced a total of 10 litters from Nov. 1998 to Oct. 1999. Out of these ten
>litters, they produced two pups from different litters that were born with
>kinks in their tails.
So that would indicate that the parents carry the trait for kinked tails
and it was passed on to some, if not all, of their offspring.
>I still have one of these pups, he is pied black. You
>can see a not-so-good picture of him at
>(http://www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Reserve/1928/Salty.html) I am using him
>for breeding (with an unrelated pied Golden Agouti) and he has not
>reproduced his kinked tail. Also, he is a small gerbil.
But you are using a gerbil which you know carries an undesirable mutation
for breeding. His offspring will carry this trait, even if they don't show
it, and it will crop up again later, no doubt. I don't understand why you
would use a gerbil that you know has a genetic defect in your breeding
program?
Rebecca...
