Depends on what he wants to do. I think $800 for a breedable female het pied is plenty fair. You can get a het male for $100. Then breed them and produce your own this year.
A hatchling will be cheaper, but you still have to raise her up, and she won't be breeding until '12, three years away. So by the time he's producing pieds with a hatchling he bought now, he could have already produced several clutches with pieds in them.
So again, just depends on what he wants and what his goals are and how soon he wants to realize them.










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