Looking for a breeder female normal any ideas were to find one?

[benwallage9]

Hey I'm looking for a female breeder normal, I've been checking craigslist on a daily basis but don't seem to be able to find one that I want. My question is does anyone have any suggestions of where to look for one, I've tried fauna classifieds and kingsnake, but you have to include shipping so you end up paying like $200+ for a normal which seems kind of high to me. So is there another site I haven't checked yet that people commonly post bps on? I'm not trying to post a want add here and I'm not asking people if they have any available here I just want to know if anyone has some suggestions of where else to look... Thanks in advance

[Maddumpling]

doesnt bhb enterprises have breeder females for 75 with shipping about 39 dollars. They are breeders just lost weight because of eggs.

[benwallage9]

thats a good suggestion accept I don't feed live and I know they feed there bps live

[dr del]

Hi,

I thought Brian has said in the past they feed mix of live and F/T?

Phone him and ask him would be my advice.

But then I also think $200 for a breeding sized female is about right.


dr del

[MasonC2K]

$200 is the standard for a ready-to-go normal breeder. Craigslist and such is really the best way to look and people with just pet snakes tend to not know the value of what they have. My biggest girl I got for $50 on CL.

[PitOnTheProwl]

If you look at the time involved in growing her out, $200 is a cheap drop in the bucket.
All 3 of the girls that I have that are ready to go came off of CL BUT I did pay $200 for my proven granite.
The trick is your search on CL, you almost have to come up with "key" words to find them sometimes. I just use my basic 4 (snake, python, pythons, reptile)

[wolfy-hound]

Beware of CL deals, often people selling their "big normal female BP" actually have a male but were told female because it got big, it has a fat tail, a skinny tail, spots on the sides... anything. So you could pay a decent price to get a normal male.

Advertise on reptile forums of what you're looking for, a minimum size, that you want them feeding on FT, etc. If no one responds, you didn't lose anything.

[dragonboy4578]

I know that BHB has been working on switching many of there adult bp's to F/T, and are having pretty good success with it. If you give Brian a call I wouldn't be surprised if he could find you one that he has switched already.

[Skittles1101]

thats a good suggestion accept I don't feed live and I know they feed there bps live

It is possible to switch. I just bought a 2010 male ghost that grew up live his whole life, and just took a f/t rat for me first shot

[rabernet]

I feed live, for the most part - I do have an albino that I feed f/t to (I don't like seeing scratches on him, they're visible on albinos). When he refuses, I don't have any trouble finding another live feeder in my collection that will take it. Now keep in mind, this is only offered to my established collection. I would never offer a refused prey item to another animal in my collection from a refusal from a QT'd animal.

My point is - my snakes are just good feeders, period. Even though they've always been on live, they're not about to turn down food, even if it's f/t.

I've gotten a few girls off of Craigslist in the past, but I knew how to sex them, and I was up front with the person with the ad, that I'd only be taking it, if I was allowed to sex it and it was female.

The ONE time I didn't sex an animal before taking it, it ended up being a male.