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Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/24/10 04:13 PM
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Hey, I saw the mosaic conversation turning to leus, and I was interested in hearing from everyone about their opinions of them.
I won't breed Leu x Leu, but I am interested in discussing the feelings about it.
There are MANY pairings of leu hets who have leucistic siblings. If the glider is 66% for example, and the mate is 100%... each one probably has leucistic siblings. We can breed the 66% and the 100% together with nobody blinking. HOWEVER, if someone were to breed the leus who are siblings to the same pair... all [censored] would break loose.
Now I personally think it would be more beneficial to breed each leu to a grey and then breed the offspring who are 100% leu hets. BUT... why are we so adiment about no leu x leu breeding when the COIs are exactly the same as some of our hets??
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/24/10 04:18 PM
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Honestly I don't get this either? I wouldn't do it just because everyone is so against it but I don't really understand y? What is the difference between a het and a leu that is brother/sister???
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/24/10 04:29 PM
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I do not breed for leu, myself.
However, someone recently pointed out to me, that if we *did* breed leu to leu, we would actually be greatly improving the lines. You get twice as many leus to work with, and you don't have to inbreed as much to keep the variant alive.
If we had started out leu to leu at least as a regular practice the lines would be 1.6% LESS inbred per generation. We have inbred the lines so much that you can hardly FIND a leu with a low COI% anymore, when, in truth, they'd have been better off if we never tried to outbreed them.
Examples: Breeding Sammie and Saleen together; Saleen was already inbred. But if the two of them produced a typical number of joeys in a breeding life, there would have been 14-20 MORE leus to work with and branch out instead of just the one, Horatio.
If the leu lines had just started with Sesame and Ethan, we would have had completely healthy lines to work with. We could have taken their 14-20 joeys, with their 0% COI and built the lines up from there.
Like I said - I don't breed for leu. But when someone pointed this out to me, it was pretty eye-opening. So, that being said - I don't know WHY people who breed leu to leu are treated like pariahs.
Because they contribute to more leus available, which brings the price down? That could quite possibly be it!
Alden "Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored." Alice Walker
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/24/10 05:05 PM
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/24/10 05:53 PM
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Alden, is 0.4% COI low enough for you?
I have sold one leu and two hets in four years, and I still don't agree with breeding leu x leu. Obviously it isn't about the money for me, because I've given away more leus for free than I've sold, and I've given away a lot of hets too.
Standard acceptable practice should be breeding out, not leu x 100% het or even 100% x 100%. People care only about producing color, the lines would be even more of a disaster than they already are, if leu x leu was readily acceptable.
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/24/10 06:03 PM
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Helen, you are like me with my mosaics. Sold one, kept one and gave two away!
Alden, if in the beginning, the original two (assuming they were unrelated) had been bred and produced 10 leus and then those were bred out, then there would be more lines to choose from (ok, they would be the same line but with a great deal of other genetic material in the lines). But the question is, how far should they BE bred out before pairing up hets or leus or combos of the two?
Do you take the original two's leu offspring and breed out 4 generations? 6? 20? At what point would it be ok to breed them back together?
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/24/10 10:11 PM
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personally i suspect that we will start to see leu to leu being bred (hopefully from different lines) now that mosaic to mosaic is being bred.
regards, nancy in detroit p.s. i only hope the lines are pure so the male joeys arent sterile.
regards, nancy in roseville (formerly in detroit)
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/24/10 10:18 PM
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Why are you directing this thread to me, Helen and Teresa?
I didn't start the thread - I added something I'd heard - and specified that I didn't even breed leu!
I think many lines were screwed up in the beginnings. But probably leu and mosaic the most. I don't think it was intentional. But, it was done, none the less.
Alden "Animals can communicate quite well. And they do. And generally speaking, they are ignored." Alice Walker
Mom to Valhalla; 6 cats; 1 macaw; 2 hedgehogs; and very many great gliders!
(plus the 2 skin kids) valkyriegliders.com
Kyrie, nothing will ever fill the hole you left in my heart.
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/25/10 03:18 AM
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Just what is the defination of screwed up lines in the beginning? I am not aware of any deformed Leus or Leus with compromised immune disorders from within the Leucistic Lines in the beginning. Nor do I know of any of today. Am I missing something? Also, pairing my Leucistic named Sesamie to Ethan whould have been impossible. He was not for sale... and he was in Canada. Also, way back then... we were not sure if pairing two Leus together would result in the so called leathal white gene. Anyone who wants a Healthy Leucistic with a low COI for breeding can find one from a reputable breeder. However, do not expect to pay $500 for a bred out joey. It takes several generations to breed one out selectivly which takes time and money to do so.
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/25/10 05:59 AM
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Random question insert...
What is the lowest COI anyone's seen on a leu with relatively good lineage, does anyone know? My Mystic (Leu) is a 0% COI within a 5 generation pedigree and a 1% within a 10 generation pedigree.
Adri Mother of 2 Adrian, Sofie Slave to many glidin' gliders www.sugarsensation.comWithin the heart of every stray lies the singular desire to be loved.
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/25/10 07:33 AM
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And the leu joey I am getting from GoGoGliders is 0.3158% on TPG database, 8 generations.
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/25/10 10:28 AM
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Wouldn't this apply to wf to wf lion to lion etc etc even grey to grey? I don't know a thing about genetics but I'm assuming the issues come up because of the inbreeding behind developing the non-natural colors. So I would think it has to do with breeding the inbred genetics back to inbred genetics. Not the same as breeding a natural to a natural.
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/25/10 10:33 AM
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Ok but I would easily say that WF has just as many if not more messy inbred sources than leu and mosaic lines. So why breed WF to WF again like with mosaics you only need one to produce the color. I see no genetic difference. Out of matching with my gliders the only problems I've ever had is the WF lines messing up my cois. But Leu on Leu you can't get a leu out of just one and they didn't have the same sterility problem as mosaics did, messy lines but it took EXTREME practices to get sterile line mosaics and now because of when sterile line mosaics WERE bred we have old sterility in plenty of WF lineage.
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/25/10 10:37 AM
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I guess my bottom line (and I'll have to move this and your posts to my mo mo thread is that I see absolutely no difference between breeding wf to wf and breeding mosaic to mosaic. We have a lot of good clean lines out there and arguably better lineages in mosaics then some WF's. My point is mosaic x mosaic; wf x wf the only difference is mosaic are high priced gliders. Sorry but I think this has to do with people judgments on breeders and thinking they are just in it for money.
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/25/10 12:08 PM
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Alden, I only addressed you because my question was in direct response to your post AND because you don't breed leus. Because you don't breed leus, I feel your input is less biased. It certainly wasn't any type of attack or to put you on "the spot" at all.
For the most part, I agree with Lauren on mo to mo being no different than wf to wf EXCEPT for the sterility issues.
But yes, now that sterile line mos were bred to wf, it is a problem that has to be watched for in the wf lines as well.
Leu to leu ARE different because you have to have both parents carrying the gene. So to produce leu's, you have to breed back into the lines which makes it a "mess".
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I could have missed the pain But I'd of had to miss the dance
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/25/10 05:47 PM
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It sounds to me like all Alden was saying is that we would have ended up with *healthier* lines had we started with leu to leu from the beginning. There have been leu to leu breedings that produced healthy offspring, and there is no reasonable argument that leads to leu x leu producing joeys that are unhealthy because their parents are both leu. Sure, there are genetic problems in other animals that when doubled, can lead to lots of problems. Why was it decided that leu would be like this? Not on any basis in reality. Just someone's convenient assumption that it would be the same. I could compare mosaic to lethal white or merle, but it doesn't mean that breeding mosaic to mosaic produces gliders with megacolon, shorter lifespan, or missing eyes and deafness. There are still breeders out there that are in it for the money, there always will be as long as there is money in sugar gliders. My point was that this rule WAS originally implemented to control the price and rarity of leus. It was created because someone with the ability to breed leu wanted to make sure their market didn't drop out. When I had only been around for a year and leus were only being sold to USDA licensed breeders, I told someone I wanted to breed leus and give them away to anyone that wanted one at no charge, those that had the leu lines to breed made sure I didn't get any leus or hets because they were afraid I would affect their market. They were going for $2500 per leu and $1500 per 100% leu het. Obviously that profit margin has bottomed out now, so I encourage breeders to move forward with their efforts to breed better lines rather than backward. This rule was made for profit, not the health of the gliders. If leu to leu breeding was accepted, we would be able to branch our lines out further, breeding healthier lines. I'm certainly not saying that leu breeders are all about profit, I'm just saying that even if we've reached a 0% COI now, there are still leus I've seen being bred with 12.5% COIs. Inbreeding leads to a great deal of problems. I know about this first hand, and am always one of the first to stand up against inbreeding. I would NEVER support an idea that could lead to more inbreeding and genetic problems. The concept that Alden posted is a well known breeding concept--breed recessive color variants together not only to preserve the color, but to strengthen the lines and help the variant get a better hold. More leus means more options, more of the gene to be worked with, and in the end, healthier and stronger gliders that are leu or carry the leu gene.
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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Beth, all I can say is Amen and a GREAT BIG THANK YOU!!!!!
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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Random question insert...
What is the lowest COI anyone's seen on a leu with relatively good lineage, does anyone know? My Mystic (Leu) is a 0% COI within a 5 generation pedigree and a 1% within a 10 generation pedigree. Thank you, and Nadine as well, for replying to my question! So a 0.0488% with 8 generations is pretty decent by most standards, then?
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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That COI is decent by ANY standard. I personally try to keep my COIs under 3, but it is something that many of us disagree upon, and it also depends on how far out from the originals that they are.
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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Random question insert...
What is the lowest COI anyone's seen on a leu with relatively good lineage, does anyone know? My Mystic (Leu) is a 0% COI within a 5 generation pedigree and a 1% within a 10 generation pedigree. Thank you, and Nadine as well, for replying to my question! So a 0.0488% with 8 generations is pretty decent by most standards, then? Actually that is above average by any standard! There aren't many Leus out there with a COI of less than 1%.
Adri Mother of 2 Adrian, Sofie Slave to many glidin' gliders www.sugarsensation.comWithin the heart of every stray lies the singular desire to be loved.
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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-noddles- We're hoping to bring out leus with as low a COI as we can manage. Thanks to the help of an absolutely wonderful lady we may have quite the pair since neither parent is from the same leu line and both are a few generations removed from any of the main leus. So I was interested in seeing what other COIs are relatively normal or average for other leus. Amber what will you be pairing? Two Leus? or a Leu/Leu het?
Adri Mother of 2 Adrian, Sofie Slave to many glidin' gliders www.sugarsensation.comWithin the heart of every stray lies the singular desire to be loved.
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Re: Since it came up... leu to leu breeding
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07/26/10 12:22 PM
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One thing I think folks overlook on the issue of breeding for a specific genetic trait is it is not the leu GENE that can cause inbreeding health issues but other recessive genes for deformities/disorders that share the same CHROMOSOME with the leu gene.
Chromosomes are found in pairs and the egg and sperm each carry one copy that make the pair of chromosomes in the resulting joey. So when a joey develops from a pair of gliders that each contributed a chromosome containing the leu gene, it also receives all the other genes on that chromosome.
Since no one has seen any specific secondary recessive traits in the leu joeys, it may be the case that there are not any 'lethal' or otherwise dangerous genes associated with the chromosome that carries the leu trait.
In other species with a "lethal white gene" - it is most likely not the GENE for the recessive white color but another GENE(S) on the same chromosome that cause the problem. The result of an animal getting two copies of one or more of these other recessive genes on the same chromosome as the white gene is the SYNDROME or pattern of bad traits or conditions associated with that chromosome.
The white gene is just the most visible marker for animals receiving two copies of the chromosome carrying other potential bad recessive traits.
This is also why the sterile mosaics occur as an X-linked recessive. Some gliders carrying the mosaic gene have been shown to also carry the sterility trait on the X-chromosome. ("sterile lines") A het mosaic glider has a 50% chance of passing on the chromosome with the mosaic gene. If they also carry the X chromosome with the sterile gene - females have a 50% chance of passing this trait to their sons and a 50% chance their daughters will be 'carriers'. Males that have the X chromosome and are sterile - cannot, of course, pass it on.
The Mosaic color gene is probably not on the X chromosome but through breeding gliders with both traits, a substantial number (25%) of joeys from a mosaic mother that carries the sterile gene will get BOTH a copy of the chromosome carrying the mosaic trait and the X chromosome carrying the sterility trait.
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