> > If the sexing tests come back the way I hope, I'm considering
> > keeping
> > the "monster baby" as a potential mate for Kirsche. She's not too
>....ummmm, but wouldn't that be line breeding since Kirsche is "his" sister?
To be technically exact, *half* sister (same mother, different fathers).
But I'm not too worried about it for a couple reasons.
1) I really don't CARE if they ever breed--he would be kept as company
for her rather than specifically as a reproducing mate. I don't HAVE to
give them a nestbox or let them sit on any eggs that might happen. If
they ever DID lay eggs and it didn't work out, after that, I could
always let them foster a jenday egg, or an egg from the other pair of
cherries (their parents downstairs).
2) The parents have no obvious defects or health problems (other than
that he plucks her bald regularly). They have a 100% fertility and
hatch rate. And none of the resulting babies have ever had a genetic
health problem pop up. So I doubt that letting these particular two
half-siblings breed would result in deformed or sickly babies.
Does this sound like I'm seeing thru rose-tinted glasses, or does this
plan make sense?
--Kathy
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