1K for normal female?

"CB proven female normal ball python for $1000 plus shipping."

3300 grams....

going for $1000. Is that over priced?

Just curious

Not to me. She sounds like she could take on a LOT of eggs.

is there a pic. I would say thats way over priced. But I may be wrong.

Yeh the ad says the last clutch of 14 eggs...so I could see why it would be priced that high.

Breeding size females are worth their weight in gold. 3300 grams is a very large female and she is CB and a proven breeder (according to the ad). I see people selling WC, 1400 grams girls all the time for ridiculous prices and you would be lucky to get them to feed regularly much less breed.

I don't know. Breeder females aren't going for as much as they used to and 14 eggs or not I don't see her moving at that price.

I would be cautious, she may be big and proven thats all great, but 1000 seems very expensive for a normal animal that may produce 14 babies each selling between 50 and 100 bucks, big investment to gain the moola back over the years.


wildlifewarrior

she could make babies worth a whole lot more than that if you breed her to the right male. ;)

true true...

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she could make babies worth a whole lot more than that if you breed her to the right male. ;)

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That is very true i was onlythinking normal to normal i don't know what i was thinkin.

wildlifewarrior

She'd earn the money spent on her back and make you a profit quickly if bred to the right male. If you have the money, why not spend a few hundred more on each female if they are capable of producing 2x the amount of eggs one female can? Rack space not wasted. :)

There isn't any amount of money that I would let a breeder female go for. But that's because I'm a breeder not a reseller ... it would be like a nascar driver selling one of his tires in the middle of a race ... ridiculous! ;)

-adam

Very well put Adam. I have people all the time ask to buy breedable females from me, and ask me if I'm insane when I tell them that I'd take $10,000 for one. They are worth more than any price that could be placed on them.

What exactly could you breed a normal female to... to produce more expensive babies aside from HETS?

Codoms such as mojaves and Doms such as Spiders...

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What exactly could you breed a normal female to... to produce more expensive babies aside from HETS?

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Co-dom or HET, when you're a breeder, there is nothing more important than female offspring ... you need female normals to make het and co-dom females for the future! Many of the het females that I produced this year of various mutations from homozygous x normal breedings are going for more $$$ than a lot of the co-doms ... Females RULE!

-adam

I'm confused... I understand HETS and how to produce them. But I really don't understand ressecive traits, Codoms or Doms??? Could someone please explain each one? So if I breed a normal female to a mojaves or spider what would be produced?


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Normals+ Doms= Some doms AND normals.
Normals+ CoDoms= Some CoDoms AND normals... BUT if you breed a CoDom to another CoDom of the same morph(i.e. Mojave to Mojave) , you get the Super Morph.
Normals + Recessive = All Hets...

So then Pastel is a CoDom correct? Hence the Super Pastel? (My second favorite morph is a Super Pastel Pinstripe...)

What do you get when you breed Doms x Doms???

Doms x Doms = More doms and normals, BUT some of the doms will be Homozygous, meaning, when bred to another Dom, it will make all doms, and no normals.

It's kind of like a hit and miss, because you can't identify a homozygous Dom, unless you breed it to another dom.

Check this out, just found it... and it's awesome.

http://www.ballpython.ca/what_get/dominant.html

http://www.ballpython.ca/what_get/co_dominant.html

http://www.ballpython.ca/what_get/recessive.html

ok awesome that definitely helps me. Does anyone know that site that has the breeding char for recessive dom and codom??? (with pics)

Try this
http://www.ralphdavisreptiles.com/ma...ven_traits.asp

I like http://www.newenglandreptile.com/genetics_intro.html and the following articles... Not a lot of graphics, but provides a great understanding!

a breeder selling a 14 egg girl! something sounds too good to be true, imo. i have a 13 egg girl and i would turn down 10k seriously.



vaughn

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a breeder selling a 14 egg girl! something sounds too good to be true, imo. i have a 13 egg girl and i would turn down 10k seriously.



vaughn

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How much would you give me for a carton of eggs? 1 dozen grade a large!

a dime an egg!



vaughn

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a dime an egg!



vaughn

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Sold! I hope you'll give them a good home...

"in my belly" :hungry:



vaughn

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Originally Posted by kavmon

"in my belly" :hungry:



vaughn

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Very safe...