We just got a 10-year-old female that has never been bred. The guy at the pet store told us that 10 was too old to breed. Is 10 too old?
03-14-2009, 07:45 PM
Adam_Wysocki
Re: Is 10 too old?
No it's not too old ... I have girls in their 20's that produce for me every year.
Hope this helps.
-adam
03-14-2009, 07:45 PM
Stewart_Reptiles
Re: Is 10 too old?
No it's not
03-14-2009, 07:48 PM
Bruce Whitehead
Re: Is 10 too old?
I think you hit the jackpot.
Buy that lotto ticket tomorrow. :)
Bruce
03-14-2009, 10:55 PM
dmaricle
Re: Is 10 too old?
i read a story that a zoo had a girl that produced fertile cluches at like 33
03-14-2009, 11:29 PM
Slim
Re: Is 10 too old?
Hell, 10 years old is just getting started. Go slap petstore guy with a fish :fishslap:
03-15-2009, 07:55 AM
frankykeno
Re: Is 10 too old?
Heck don't even tell that pet store guy a thing. He may decide to charge more for the older females if he finds out people actually want them LOL. As long as she's healthy and has passed a good QT, I'd go for it. :)
03-15-2009, 08:44 AM
TheMolenater2
Re: Is 10 too old?
I agree with the others, especially on the note that Bps can live past 20.
03-15-2009, 11:16 AM
Slim
Re: Is 10 too old?
Quote:
Originally Posted by frankykeno
Heck don't even tell that pet store guy a thing. He may decide to charge more for the older females if he finds out people actually want them LOL. As long as she's healthy and has passed a good QT, I'd go for it. :)
Jo has a great point here...now where exactly is this pet store........:D
03-15-2009, 04:11 PM
frankykeno
Re: Is 10 too old?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Slim
Jo has a great point here...now where exactly is this pet store........:D
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Slim you would have died of jealousy a number of years back when I was up in northern Michigan. There was this lovely little privately owned pet store and since we didn't have a reptile rescue for miles around, folks would simply dump unwanted snakes off on the owner (sometimes leaving them in boxes at his front door!).
Anyways, he and I had a deal. Whenever a big ball python came in, he'd let me know and I could take it from the store, have the vet sex it and give it a health checkup (back then I didn't trust my own ability to properly sex an adult BP). If it was a female, I got the snake for a song because he didn't think he really could sell adults since "most people want baby animals". Needless to say, I never disabused him of the notion that large female ball pythons are worth more than baby ball pythons. :) I didn't feel so bad really because all of them were unwanted snakes he'd paid nothing for and I generally got them within a day of their arrival so he had no real costs on him for their care.
