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I offer breeding advice when someone asks because other people did that for me and that (along with lots of reading/re-reading) is what allowed me to have my first successful litters, so I feel I can 'give back' some of what I got. I do always try to make sure I stress maturity in boas before being bred (meaning, yes you have to wait at least 4-5 years to breed a female, not what most people want to hear..) and I do always try to stress doing research and reading books.
I agree that there are a lot of people who just breed for $$ or that think they can get rich quick, it is very tempting and when you see the big guys with their 6-15K snakes, people think 'why not me too?'. I agree that comments should be made to make people realize it is not that easy and well, when it comes right down to having 40 baby snakes to feed and clean in additional to the rest of the colleciton, it really does become a part time job and expensive to boot (speaking from experience here) and as others have said, there really is not a huge market waiting to buy up normal boas. I had mine for sale for ages, lots of people express interest but very few actually buy, I ended up wholesaling quite a few to a local reptile store. Now.. what will happen to those little ones? Hopefully they got good homes, but it went out of my hands the minute the store got them, which is hard in itself to come to grips with (and part of the reason I haven't bred anything since 2003). Did I make any money? NOPE! I am lucky if I broke even having to house the babies and keep feeding them for so long.
I personaly think that the whole experience and wonderment of a successful breeding is something that is amazing and I don't think we should tell people they should not experience it at all, I do agree that some heartfelt talking needs to be done tho so that people understand what they are really getting into.
just throwing out my $.02 like I always do.
Last edited by hisba : 07-29-2005 at 07:49 PM.
Reason: clarify pet store was a reptile store
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