Where do you sell most of your normal hatchlings?

[barbie.dragon]

No, they aren't inherently valuable from an economic standpoint to me, but this does not mean that they aren't valuable for some other reason to others. If my approach to breeding was solely around monetary concern then why would I own a Savannah monitor which has sunk me at least $1k in the hole, and Uroplatus which has sunk me about $5k in the hole?

I am not worried about housing lower end animals because I know that the money I make from others in the clutch aswell as from nephrurus and everything else I own will make up for housing lower end animals until I can find a house for them.

My question about culling was mostly to folks who are doing say pastel spider x spider, where there would be a much higher percentage of normals and low income overall. I really do enjoy my animals and I am willing to breed them to the point of breaking even or even negative a small amount but if they became that much of a burden economically I simply would stop breeding them, downsize, and keep 1-2 of each species I own as pets.

Also about the feeders, using that logic you provided, if I purchased a kingsnake or king cobra would it suddenly be ok for me to euthanize the BPs in that way? I really see no difference between that situation and feeding a rat to a BP.

It all has to do with intention. Crude examples: euthanizing a dog. My family friend euthanized his dog because it was cheaper to get another one. He was fully able to pay the medical bills for the dog. Stamp money. The dog was only a year old vs him euthanizing a dog because she had a problem the vet could not fix and she would not live a good life Example 2: a woman murders a man because she disagreed with his opinion vs her murdering a man that tried to attack her in her home. Example 3: burying a dead dog vs throwing a dead dog into a hole in the ground. The end result of these examples are the same: the woman killed a man, the dog is still euthanized and the dead dog I still in a hole in the ground. But the context or intention behind it is what makes the difference. Culling a normal ball python to feed your other snakes to me is ok. But culling a normal ball python because you don't want to take responsibility for it financially even though you're fully aware of the fact that when you breed certain morphs together you'll get a normal to me is unacceptable.