Quote Originally Posted by Sean : EbN View Post
Ok... so here I am... This was a message from myself and my company.

I won't take too much time on this because I am actually spending this evening, just like every Thursday evening, feeding snakes.

The reply that I sent was an honest representation of my position on this matter. When we have a large amount of normals or Heterozygous animals we have a few choices. Some breeders (I DON'T CONDONE THIS) freeze all of their normal and Het. males. This is UNACCEPTABLE! Some breeders will wholesale their mass amount to large pet distributors. Then the rest will hold on to the animals until they find the right homes with breeders and collectors.

We finish our hatching season by wholesaling a reputable dealer a large number of normals. I don't like to wholesale Hets as normals as we have always maintained a good reputation and been able to move through our animals.

I have many reasons for feeding these animals smaller meals, they get fed EVERY THURSDAY as that is when our live rodent supply is delivered. I'd like to also say that I keep breeding males at a very small size. Most of our breeder males are between 350-850 grams. This has been through years of experience of smaller males breeding better and not fasting as long as large ones.

As for when we ship things internationally I have found that shipments of larger animals are more difficult to transport safely because of the mass of the package.

In the end I hate to be judged like this because the animals are not unhealthy and are growing to better standards then they would be in most wild type circumstances. My conclusion is that I have always shipped out great quality animals from EbN and they end up in good places with good keepers and breeders.

I appreciate the support of my customer base and I urge you to understand that there are many ways to keep and maintain these animals. I guess some would argue the point that some of us risk the health and safely of our animals by overfeeding them. The animal in question is about 1.5 years old, when hatched he was 45 grams, he feeds weekly on adult mice and currently weighs 220 grams. To me this doesn't seem like a horrible offense... you decide...
So he has gained 175g in a year and a half forgive me if you take this wrong but that's really sad I'm not saying you do this but i know a lot of big breeders cull a lot of normals Maybe some should cut back on what they have but like i have seen in a few posts there are a few that want the all mighty dollar. I just wish more people would not buy from the huge breeders that do this sort of thing I'm not saying it's all of them but they are out there. But in order to stop this it will take the small hobby/breeders to make this happen. I just wish more of us would open our eyes and see the light on what is really going on.