Where do you sell most of your normal hatchlings?

Just wondering where most of you sell your Normal Hatchlings, I'm finding it fairly tough to find people to buy them in my area. Mostly for the lack of reptile owners and being in small town Iowa. All info is useful!

Craigslist tends to be the easiest here. I do make sure I test the new owners first so they know what they are doing. Some local reptile shops will buy them as well. Oddly enough, my males always go first, go figure. If you get stuck with a female it's never really a bad thing :)

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I haven't started breeding yet, but I've got my plan. We'll see how that goes lol.

My plan is to offer female normals on the website / ads with my morphs. Then, both on craigslist. Remaining normals from there the males will be sold to the local shops and the females will stay with me until someone wants them. I've already spoken to one of the two local shops and they are good to go for buying babies. Going to the other shop tonight to get mice and will check with them as well.

I like having my ducks in a row well before the time comes :D

Pet stores, locals who do shows, friends and friends of friends.

Pet store and craigslist, I was actually shocked at how quickly they went after I put an ad on craigslist. Course I only had 7 to begin with.

If you do craigslist do be sure to check what they know about ball pythons, so many people wanted to house them with other snakes, one said they didn't want their carpet python to be lonely..

You could also just go with super forms or visual recessives, that gets you out of the "here, take my snakes!...please?" situation.

I was wondering, does anyone euthanize normals?

Reason being, if you can't find a good home for them then death by euthanasia would be much more humane than death by starvation, lack of heat, disease, lack of humidity, etc.

We purposefully are going with pairings that will at least throw pastel into everything this way we can get the animals into hands of competant owners. I always find that the cheapest of animals (normal BPs, cheap Monitor species, turtles, etc) are the most abused/neglected :(.

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Originally Posted by OctagonGecko729

You could also just go with super forms or visual recessives, that gets you out of the "here, take my snakes!...please?" situation.

I was wondering, does anyone euthanize normals?

Reason being, if you can't find a good home for them then death by euthanasia would be much more humane than death by starvation, lack of heat, disease, lack of humidity, etc.

We purposefully are going with pairings that will at least throw pastel into everything this way we can get the animals into hands of competant owners. I always find that the cheapest of animals (normal BPs, cheap Monitor species, turtles, etc) are the most abused/neglected :(.

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why would they be starving, cold, and disease-ridden?

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Originally Posted by wwmjkd

why would they be starving, cold, and disease-ridden?

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Well, I might be wrong so feel free to correct me since I'm new to BPs. I've seen normals being handed out like candy at expos before and the ones that are on tables are no questions asked $5-15 purchases.

If folks just hand them out to whomever because they need to move them due to lack of rack space they will more often then not end up in the hands of people who will not treat them right.

I've seen this plenty of times with leopard geckos and crested geckos, folks would almost rather pay the replacement cost of $5-25 for the geckos instead of say....actually keeping them in proper conditions so they wouldn't die.

It is much less likely that someone will abuse a snake that is more expensive. Who pays for say a Killer Spinner at $3500 and then treats it terrible, no one. Also, you aren't hard pressed to clear out your rack of Killer Spinners so you can take the time to make sure the person your selling to knows their stuff.

IMO people that abuse animals don't care about the price. If they have the money to buy an expensive animal they'll do it. And if they want to hurt the animal, they'll hurt them.

Oh god I hope no one culls normals that are by products of breeding another morph. If someone breeds a snake they should be aware they might get normals and should be ready to accommodate them right?