First-time and New Breeders

[BPGator]

There seems to be a lot of first-time clutches being posted lately, and I'm wondering what everyone's doing with the new babies. Are the plans to sell them or keep them for future breeding? If you do sell them, how do you go about doing that? If keeping for breeding, are there issues with inbreeding (is it an issue to pair siblings or child/parent)? I'm fairly new and I ask because at some point I may decide to breed mine, but not sure if want to keep all the offspring.


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[Stewart_Reptiles]

Keep what you need for future projects and sell what you don't, my first two years I kept all the females I produced and sold the males, now it depends on where my project take me.

How to sell well having a reputation helps especially if you start selling high end animals, for the rest it's really business 101 , place ads, promote yourself etc.

http://ball-pythons.net/forums/showt...tes-Inbreeding

[AKA Dave]

As I got back into breeding balls after an extended break I had these same questions. I produced three clutches this year, with one still in the incubator for another 3 weeks. I was very lucky with my first clutch and produced 5 amazing animals. 2 of them were sold to people on this forum after I posted pictures of them. I sold one to a well established breeder in VA and another on Morph Market. I ended up keeping of the males for myself. I developed a relationship with a local seller/storefront near me and sold the second clutch wholesale. No mess, no fuss and I didn't have to do much. Win win in my book. We'll have to see what happens with the next one in a few weeks. I might end up wholesaling again, or posting them for sale myself. Either way, cultivate some relationships and sell what you can or want to yourself. That worked for me.

Deborah has great insight too. She's been at this a long time.

Dave

[BMorrison]

This next year will be my first in the 8+ years in the hobby, I'm hoping for mostly holdbacks to be honest but the year after who knows!


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