pedigree etc

[hopea2]

i was looking at the ad placed by another member, and i quite like the idea, more of a pedigree, anyone else? and when it comes to showing our snail obviously its very difficult for us all to go meet and have a show as we live pretty much spread out across the country, so maybe we should take photos of their shell, out of shell etc and have select members as judges who select "best of breed" lol, but you get what i mean. i cant decide 100% if it is a good thing or bad thing. pedigrees are complicated as it would need a database with registered snails, which not being nasty is a lot of work for snails. so what do you guys think? is the whole thing over the top for snails or is it a really good way to start protecting genetics, and increasing on better looking snails, by selectivly breeding show winners? a lot to think about lol what are your views?

[stix]

snails that will not crossbreed its a good idea but with most snails it would be too much hard work, like fulica people would have to get wild caught ones to be sure they were not inbred with any other species or siblings.
If it was to happen I would happily be a judge I have a knowledge of most common and some rare land snails so would be perfect LOL.

[hopea2]

same, i would like to be a judge!! im sure we could figure something out with fulica, maybe if we cross some of the fulica varients together and then mate that with a normal fulica we should add enough new blood to bring them round, wont be perfect and inbreeding will be in their family tree way back but thats probably the best we can do, without getting them out the wide, could make fulica crosses the "in thing" giving them wierd names like the rodatzi and jadazti have, a fulica and jade mix could be jalcia lol

[stix]

It wouldn't work as you don't want cross breed snails you want pure bred

[hopea2]

true, just an idea anyway. But it will be good for margies etc, we should start a pedigree website, if we do it

[stix]

Yeah Margies, tigers, iredalei and so on it would be a good idea for.

[rosanna]

pedigree is quite simple, all you need is the names of the parents ect. they dont have to be registered, i am doing this for show mice and they havent got a register database, although, i was thinking of trying to create some (not for snails, it would be too complicated for me ), breeder assistant has some good templates if you look on there for data base set up