The first thing I looked for PRIOR to breeding was buyers for the babies- Especially the normals. I'd no sooner put down a Healthy animal than shoot my foot! IMHO that's not the way to do things- I've always seen the higher cost we pay for "fancy snakes" aka morphs as a way to cover the overhead of producing normals. It's also why I think many of the base morph snakes produced today are sold way too cheaply.
Most on my normals are sold at wholesale to my local shop here after their 3rd meal. I'm lucky to break even on normals... if you don't count the time involved. But they are great snakes, well started on rats & my buyer will take anything he can get from me because the animals do well. I have him give out a NorthernRegius Key Chain with each snake & a care-sheet, so if the buyer has questions or is looking for morphs they'll see the care I put into all my babies. We may put a price-tag on the paint-jobs but life is life. Killing a perfectly healthy animal?!! Not in my little corner of the world!
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