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Unless something has changed recently all the blues in the US are directly descendant from 6 babies(in all likelihood from the same clutch) that were imported some years ago. Because the founding stock was only these few animals people wanting to produce "pure" blues have had no choice but to inbreed with no outcrossing options unless they want to make blue/red/b&w combos. Then pops up the albino, a recessive trait, which unfortunately means even more inbreeding to get those alleles to match up in order to create more albinos..

[QUOTE="JohnMatthew, post: 93644, member: 385"] Unless something has changed recently all the blues in the US are directly descendant from 6 babies(in all likelihood from the same clutch) that were imported some years ago. Because the founding stock was only these few animals people wanting to produce "pure" blues have had no choice but to inbreed with no outcrossing options unless they want to make blue/red/b&w combos. Then pops up the albino, a recessive trait, which unfortunately means even more inbreeding to get those alleles to match up in order to create more albinos.. [/QUOTE]

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