Quote Originally Posted by lunasjy View Post
It's not me who wants to feed off normals... just so you know. I got into breeding pretty much the same time as a friend of mine did. We are both good friends with another breeder who sells his as a packaged deal or whole sale to pet stores. My friend sees this and doesn't have the same opportunity so he is afraid that he wont be able to sell the normals. I am not sure how true this is. I know personally I only have one normal and probably wont buy more as a personal choice.

I am just going to let him do what he wants to do. As for myself, I will not feed normals off to my other snakes. I do have a king snake but he eats mice just fine.
If you guys know a guy that sells wholesale, why not ask him to buy yours? He's obviously getting paid for the snakes, you can just get half or even less, the snakes are gone, no work for you, and you get that little bit of money to put back into feeders.

I have thought about getting something that would eat any hatchlings that didn't make it, just because it seems like there's no easy and humane way of putting a snake down. It seems like expensive trip to the vet or smashing their head with a hammer (I'm not even close to killing rats with my hands, let alone smashing something's head). Freezing and co2 is just torture for them so I wouldn't do that either. Having them fed off naturally just seems like the most humane thing to do.