wanted: 1000+ gram norm female

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Originally Posted by SnakeySnakeSnake

1500 gram CBB females are valued at least $1250?

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In my opinion they are priceless.Just picture this, you have a pastel male and you bred him to your normal female.Say she throws 11 eggs,out of these 11 eggs 6 are female pastels.At this time female pastels are around $700 and up.You sell all of the female pastels,you just made $4200+ from this one female normal in one season:cool: .Of course depending on what you breed her to the prices of the babies produced will vary.You now have numerous years left that she will breed for you :carrot: .This makes normal females 1500 grams and up priceless in my eyes.

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Originally Posted by uro1001

lol i own 30+ snakes in my home and own my own shop. i am just new to ball pythons. eclark, thanks for the heads up on how much norm females can be i wasnt really aware. chances are sadly the boa will not make it as he has ibd and a broken spine(long story dont ask) ill just raise up my female and will be browsing around for some adults. thanks :)

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Whoa he has IBD :( .Are you sure the rest of your collection does not have it also? Sorry to hear that.

Uro 101 You are looking for breedable females at the wrong time of year, thats why prices are high. $1250.00 thats the point that I would sell, any less its just not worth it. im sure that you could find some nice 800 gram females for around $200.00 each. and maybe with a little luck could get them to size for next year.


Very sorry to hear the bad news with your boa. :)

you link goes to email?

Aleesha, not trying to link anything here, just appeared ? :O

That dancing cat is the best ever. :P

that's weird.

:eek:

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Originally Posted by ECLARK

That dancing cat is the best ever. :P

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she's very very happy LOL

I just want to throw it out there that Skin is tipping the scales at 2100 grams...

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Originally Posted by joepythons

In my opinion they are priceless.Just picture this, you have a pastel male and you bred him to your normal female.Say she throws 11 eggs,out of these 11 eggs 6 are female pastels.At this time female pastels are around $700 and up.You sell all of the female pastels,you just made $4200+ from this one female normal in one season:cool: .Of course depending on what you breed her to the prices of the babies produced will vary.You now have numerous years left that she will breed for you :carrot: .This makes normal females 1500 grams and up priceless in my eyes.

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True, but 11 eggs is a generous estimate for a 1500 gram.

6 female pastels out of 11 eggs on a normal pastel x normal breeding is also a very generous estimate.

Assuming the range is 0-12 and with a very fair avg without slugs you get 6 eggs.


only 3 of them will be pastels on average

and 1-2 of them will be females on average


so assuming best case avgs

2 normal females
1 normal male
2 pastel females
1 pastel male

$120 for the normals, and $1600 for the females.

Still $1720 but youd have to really be hoping for good odds.


Are there people who don't breed, and raise up females for the sole purpose of selling them at the ideal time of the year?

so the number begins to approach

Yes there are people that raise up hatchling females, just to sell as future breeders. Brandon R. in Pittsburg, Pa. has done this for awhile now, had a terrible fire that killed all his females and his father barely made it out of the house.