Keeping offspring vs. selling..

Ya know, I was just thinking about this. I was planning on keeping all my female albinos and selling everything else, but then I thought, "Hey, I could keep twice as many female het albinos for half the price and produce the same amount of albinos in three years, and at the same time sell all my albinos and have enough money to invest in a Lesser male that can produce in two years. That doubles my income in three years than if I had just kept the female albinos."

Then I thought, "But what if I want DH Albino Piebalds?! I'm going to have to keep at least one female albino this year and maybe another next year."

I don't know how you bigger breeders do this!! I swear, just having these eggs in the incubator is the most agitating, anxiety-causing thing on earth..! I might have a flippin' conniption once I actually see my first hatchling.. lol

Sorry to inform you, but it doesn't get any better next year, after you have had hatchlings before. Next year, you'll be waiting for your first Spider to pip, then the following year, you are waiting on your first Bumbleebee, and then the next year, you are waiting on your first Killerbee to pi, and then the next year....you get the picture.

Yeah, and then you look at the eggs once a week and if anything looks slightly odd, you start to panick!!!

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Originally Posted by muddoc

Sorry to inform you, but it doesn't get any better next year, after you have had hatchlings before. Next year, you'll be waiting for your first Spider to pip, then the following year, you are waiting on your first Bumbleebee, and then the next year, you are waiting on your first Killerbee to pi, and then the next year....you get the picture.

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Tim, you are so right. It never gets any easier or less exciting!:carrot:

I think that breeding these snakes is so flippin' fun. :D

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Originally Posted by bait4snake

Yeah, and then you look at the eggs once a week and if anything looks slightly odd, you start to panick!!!

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LOL ... after a few years of doing it, you get over that whole looking at the eggs every week thing ... they'll hatch when they hatch. ;) :D

-adam

From my breeding's in the near future I will be keeping a female albino, female pastel and female yellowbelly. Now when it comes to my pied project, bumblebee and super pastel it really doesn't matter the sex. I might keep a male spider in the future also. Can't wait, some of these will not breed in 07 but that's alright. :rockon: