Fair price 09 female pewter 1500grams?

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Originally Posted by 771subliminal

does it mean that they cant? my girl laid 8 healthy eggs last sept and all hatched just fine she was at 1475 prior

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Way to go for a girl that size, how old is she?

I'm really surprised at how many wouldn't breed a 2 year old 1500 gram girl. IMHO, you're missing out on an opportunity. Age has nothing to do with breeding. It's a guidline used by many that makes them feel better about what they are doing. I snake will breed when it is ready. If it's not, it simply will not breed.

I've been breeding balls since the early 90s...way before they were cool. Males can and will breed at 350+ grams and females will breed SUCCESSFULLY at 1000 grams.....and continue to grow and reproduce as well as other animals that were kept back for more growth.

Another example is chondros. I've been breeding chondros since 1997. The general rule used by most keepers is not to breed females under 1000 grams. Most wild adults breed at 500-600 grams on average and rarely even see 1000 grams in their lifetime.

I have bred many 18 month old female ball pythons in the 1100-1200 grams range. That's exactly how the Pewter Pied project started and that same original female is producing 8-9 egg clutches only 3 seasons later.

TO ANSWER THE ORIGINAL QUESTION....I think a 2 year old 1500 gram Pewter female would be worth $2-3k to me. Looking at my last clutch of Pewter X Pewter het pied, it could be worth even more.....2.0 Super Pewters, 0.2 Cinny, 0.1 Super Pastel, 1.1 Pewter all 50% het pied.

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Originally Posted by ace_singapore

But it's considered late in the season as you can't just bring it back and breed her right away, so it's really your call. And of course, deals like this is hard to come by so I will grab it if I were you. GL!

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I don't consider this late in the season at all. I just started pairing things up a month ago. We still have til mid summer. Balls will go year round.

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Originally Posted by mpkeelee

sorry, not trying to hijack just have a quick question that kinda goes along with this thread.

pewters are pastel x cinny correct??
if you go thru these pics u will see white almost like a lucy, where does the white come from??
http://www.worldofballpythons.com/morphs/super-pewter/

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The link didn't work for scrolling the pics, but I'm assumming you're talking about the Paradox and Striped Super Pewters....? The white on these is likely caused by the Pied gene. They were clutchmates from Pewter het Pied X Pewter. The Pied gene is known to have visual marker traits when combined with other morphs. We first noticed this with the first Pewter het Pieds and have seen drastic differences in other morphs as well.