Re: Are your Balls for breeding?
my balls were made for breeding for sure! i would love to have kids :D
Re: Are your Balls for breeding?
after doing research for the past few months my rack finally came in yesterday, and the 3 balls i bought will be arriving tues morning. i cant wait. ive never owned a snake, and was just planning on getting 1 as a pet, but have since decided to try my hand at breeding them. id love to make some extra cash, but really my main goal is to eventually breed the ones the I really want like the bumble bee and killer bee, spinners....
i plan on picking up 4 more in the coming months, and will try to breed my normal female to either my pastel or spider next year. :snake:
Re: Are your Balls for breeding?
i keep as pets but i want to breed one day not sure if ill sell the babys or keep guess ill figure that out when the time comes
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Originally Posted by andwhy6
my balls were made for breeding for sure! i would love to have kids :D
QFT
Re: Are your Balls for breeding?
I think one day that i would like to breed ball pythons! I have one normal female now, just a baby, but when im done with college and have my own place i think i would like to breed her then.
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Honestly, I would keep retics and not breed them. But where I live now theres a length limit on all reptiles, so I decided to go with balls. And now that i'm starting to collect balls I plan on breeding them. They're easier to keep (space wise) and have smaller clutches so I can keep the babies and so on. I don't have to worry about having 20+,30+ or even 40+ babies to take care or try to sell. And if I don't or can't sell them imagine the food bill the caging cost. I believe that balls are better in my situation.
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Originally Posted by erobinson
Honestly, I would keep retics and not breed them. But where I live now theres a length limit on all reptiles, so I decided to go with balls. And now that i'm starting to collect balls I plan on breeding them. They're easier to keep (space wise) and have smaller clutches so I can keep the babies and so on. I don't have to worry about having 20+,30+ or even 40+ babies to take care or try to sell. And if I don't or can't sell them imagine the food bill the caging cost. I believe that balls are better in my situation.
Very true. I wouldn't ever breed any animal that would produce more babies than I would be willing to keep if there was a case where I couldn't sell the offspring. My Leo's seem to be ready to breed this season, so I'm hoping for my first few clutches with them, and then my BP's should be ready by fall of '08. My 7mo. male pastel is roughly 300g now (was at 294 two weeks ago), and my female just hit the 600g mark at 1 yr of age, so things are lookin' good so far ^^. I personally can't wait to produce these babies, and I've already got several people wanting some of my BP's offspring.
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right now, mine are just pets. maybe sometime in the future! i luv baby ball pix and it always makes me want to go out and get a female! haha!
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I have only one male. I got him as a pet but I kind of have this quircky idea for a breeding project. So, I would have to get a female, of course. But, if you are breeding for certain traits, I imagine you would go through a process of selection and re-breeding. That means that each time you would have a certain number of snakes that you don't want to breed again. I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to sell them though.
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Mine are pets first; breeders second. I keep them for the joy of having them. If none of them would ever breed again, I would still be fulfilled owning them. Breeding is a fun bonus that I am dabbling in now (with them, not myself..)
