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The rack is going to be in my back room, away from my other 6 snakes...those are in my room.
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Originally Posted by Wild Bill
Are you ready for the costs involved of getting rid of internal and external parasites? Are you able to quarantine that many animals? It sometimes ends up being more expensive to deal with ch animals than just paying extra for cbb. There was a person on another site that bought a large group of animals and thought they had a adequate quarantine setup, all their animals ended up with mites. Just something to think about. ;)
Good points and something that I think all the people buying up fresh imports or CH don't even begin to think about. Lets also remember that these are living creatures.
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Originally Posted by pslsnakes
The rack is going to be in my back room, away from my other 6 snakes...those are in my room.
Quarantine procedures go far beyond putting them in seperate rooms.
Re: I found something cool at petco!
Im going to treat them for mites and ticks and such, and internally parasites.
I cant take them to the vet all at onec, but a few a week.
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Originally Posted by Wild Bill
Quarantine procedures go far beyond putting them in seperate rooms.
Sing it brother!!
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Ok........So what have yall found at PetCo ?
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Ok........So what have yall found at PetCo ?
Shriveled up dead animals in cages...
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Originally Posted by pslsnakes
Im going to treat them for mites and ticks and such, and internally parasites.
I cant take them to the vet all at onec, but a few a week.
That right there will blow any profit margin of CH right out of the water. To be honest fi you take a few a week to the vet, the first ones will be treated, cured and reinfected by the time you take the last ones to the vet. I am not trying to be a jerk, just trying to get you to realize the potential for disaster you are walking into.
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Ok........So what have yall found at PetCo ?
Nothing I will buy from them. ;)
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Im going to treat them for mites and ticks and such, and internally parasites.
I cant take them to the vet all at onec, but a few a week.
Ok...help me understand...you are going to treat them all (you said you'll have about 150) for mites and ticks and then take a few a week to the vet.
150 babies at 3 per week means it will take you 50 weeks to get all of them looked at by a vet. You know that's like, almost a year right?
I'm sorry we're all jumping on you like this, but it really doesn't seem like you've done ANY homework at all on this, and we don't want to see the situation turn out to be a disaster for you.
Are you aware of the cost of those veterinary bills? Most vets want about $35 per animal to even walk in the exam room. So baseline thats about $35 per animal x 150 animals = $5250 plus whatever meds some might need. Remember thats in addition to whatever you paid for the crate.
You can buy CB normals for about $25 a piece in a bulk order. The same mixed lot of CBB animals 150 animals x $20/each = $3000 for the same quantity of quality, captive-bred, parasite-free animals.
I don't know man...you can't ignore the math.
