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[chinchildren]

I have to disagree about culling an animal that has (or produces) dirty bellies though bigger experts than I have chimed in in favor of culling.

I believe that if an animal is very strong in other areas (fur quality, strength, clarity, size etc) you simply use it - dirty belly and all - in a wrap line. If the animal is known to have thrown kits with dirty belly but the kits - dirty bellied and not dirty bellied - tend to be NICE quality I would not cull and just put the dirty bellied kits, when they show up, in wrap lines.

As for culling the siblings of a dirty bellied animal, I don't think I agree here too. Would you cull a good quality animal just because a litter mate has no size? The fact that a gene is in the pool does not mean it makes it into each and every animal produced from that pairing. There are a great many genes that are present in the dam and sire of each animal that do not become part of the animals DNA so I would not cull an animal based on a trait found in a litter mate (or full sibling from a different litter) UNLESS THAT TRAIT WAS MALOCCLUSION.

JMO.

 

[threewingedfury]

This little guy is actually going to someone for a wrap line now. I'm glad that someone was interested in using him because I thought he was very nice other than his belly. I didn't want to sell him as a pet because it would have been a waste, or so I think. As far as the other two goes, I really want to work with both of them to see how they turn out and what they would produce, but it really depends on cage space and I most likely will just keep the best to work with and see if someone else would be willing to work with the other under the circumstances. I just can't cull these guys as pets just yet, their fur even for a baby is pretty darn nice.

The dam is going to go in with one of my best standard males so I can see what she throws with him. I really don't want to put her in with a v/c just yet, as I think it would be easier to work with v/c offspring instead of a violet if she does throw a dirty belly. She's too nice of an animal to cull for one dirty belly and with another pairing she may not throw the same trait.

 

[chinchillalover0927]

you should post some updated pics TWF

 

[threewingedfury]

you should post some updated pics TWF

Haha.. well Lance (the dirty belly) looks about the same as the photos above. I'll try to get pictures of the others soon after I dust them all.

 

[chinchillalover0927]

k thanks lol i LOVE baby pics and you always have such beautiful chins i just love watching there progress

 

[threewingedfury]

Ok, well these are photos of Marius. He's my best looking so far. I'll get photos of Oliver next week, as he's a bit smaller than Lance and Marius since I hand fed him for 3 weeks and then fostered him. He hasn't caught up with the other two on size yet, but his fur looks nice. They all have their sire's face. He's so distinctive.

 

[Bam.Bam]

awww he is a cutie!!

I love the face shot, he's saying 'look at me, i'm so handsome!'