Female with eggs

A better way to get a jumpstart, would be to buy some subadult virgin CBB females. Then, once you've had them in your home under the proper conditions, and they've grown a bit, you can go from there.
I would definately get a top-notch incubator set up and ready before you start breeding. From experience a few years ago, scrambling for an incubator for some (then unplanned) eggs at the last minute will mostlikely lead to a bunch of dead eggs.

I agree with Jen. Buy some 06 females and get them up to size for a possible breeding in late '08/early '09. This would be the best thing for you, then snake and the business.

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Originally Posted by scubaboy

Is their a site or breeder that may sell a female ball full of eggs??? Just to get a jump start on breeding... Thanks

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Since you're relatively new here, I don't know your experience level in keeping ball pythons, but I'm going to guess because you've asked for a way to get a jump start on breeding that you are also relatively new to keeping ball pythons.

If you have not spent at least a year caring for multiple ball pythons and all the things that they can present to you (bad sheds, not feeding, stuck eye caps, etc), then to buy a gravid female, WC even, is a little like going from first grade, straight into college with no experience in between.

Nothing, and I mean NOTHING is fast about ball pythons. It would serve you well to buy some nice CH or CBB '06 females, and spend this next year raising them and maybe even buying a nice male that you'd like to breed to them. Practice quarantine, get your incubator prepared, decide how you plan to house the babies, how you plan to start newly hatched ball pythons feeding, etc. and learn as much as you can over the next year.

Good luck!

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Originally Posted by Spaniard

I know nothing of this breeder or his/her reputation but here is a site I found with gravid WC listings.

http://www.jnjreptiles.com/ballpythons.php

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Try emailing them or calling. 9 times out of 10 they will say they are out...