Is 10 too old?

[M&J in NC]

We just got a 10-year-old female that has never been bred. The guy at the pet store told us that 10 was too old to breed. Is 10 too old?

[Adam_Wysocki]

No it's not too old ... I have girls in their 20's that produce for me every year.

Hope this helps.

-adam

[Stewart_Reptiles]

No it's not

[Bruce Whitehead]

I think you hit the jackpot.

Buy that lotto ticket tomorrow.

Bruce

[dmaricle]

i read a story that a zoo had a girl that produced fertile cluches at like 33

[Slim]

Hell, 10 years old is just getting started. Go slap petstore guy with a fish

[frankykeno]

Heck don't even tell that pet store guy a thing. He may decide to charge more for the older females if he finds out people actually want them LOL. As long as she's healthy and has passed a good QT, I'd go for it.

[TheMolenater2]

I agree with the others, especially on the note that Bps can live past 20.

[Slim]

Heck don't even tell that pet store guy a thing. He may decide to charge more for the older females if he finds out people actually want them LOL. As long as she's healthy and has passed a good QT, I'd go for it.

Jo has a great point here...now where exactly is this pet store........

[frankykeno]

Jo has a great point here...now where exactly is this pet store........

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Slim you would have died of jealousy a number of years back when I was up in northern Michigan. There was this lovely little privately owned pet store and since we didn't have a reptile rescue for miles around, folks would simply dump unwanted snakes off on the owner (sometimes leaving them in boxes at his front door!).

Anyways, he and I had a deal. Whenever a big ball python came in, he'd let me know and I could take it from the store, have the vet sex it and give it a health checkup (back then I didn't trust my own ability to properly sex an adult BP). If it was a female, I got the snake for a song because he didn't think he really could sell adults since "most people want baby animals". Needless to say, I never disabused him of the notion that large female ball pythons are worth more than baby ball pythons. I didn't feel so bad really because all of them were unwanted snakes he'd paid nothing for and I generally got them within a day of their arrival so he had no real costs on him for their care.

Got our biggest female Brannagh there. She's over 3,500 grams now.