Quote Originally Posted by JLC View Post
If the public is demanding proof...and you HAVE the proof, but are sitting on it for as long as you can so that the price of your females will plummet and then go UP UP UP, people WILL notice. If your business name is getting dragged through the mud due to nothing but public speculation and you HAVE the proof to squash all that speculation....what would you do? Hold onto it in the hopes that your females will be worth more money for a short period of time, while at the same public perception of your business rep is getting worse and worse?

Maybe I misunderstood mainbutter and that's not what he meant by that statement. But I stand by my point regardless, even if it's not relevant to mainbutter himself. (Which was all hypothetical in the first place, since I don't think he ever implied that he actually had breeding deserts or any direct knowledge of their breeding quirks.)
Me? Oh heck no, me, I'd be crowing about MY female laying viable eggs and showing pictures and videos.

But then, hypothetically, with everyone already convinced that all desert females are sterile, how exactly would I be able to prove that my desert laid eggs that hatched? I could show pics galore and be accused of faking them, or that the eggs didn't hatch and I switched out the babies to fool everyone that the female was fertile. Or the female wasn't a desert at all, because it wasn't sterile. If the public is pre-convinced of something being true, there isn't much at all anyone could do. So to avoid the drama and fuss of being called a scammer/liar/deluded, I could see a breeder ignoring all the uproar and sticking to his/her own little breeding and selling without getting involved in it all.

It used to be EVERY caramel was hatched kinked in the public mind, but now there are obviously lines that are breeding without many kinks, since there's babies(and adults) that have no kinking.

I'm just saying that someone is under no obligation to divulge any information at all about their own private breeding projects, like it or not. Punishing someone for not rushing up to dump themselves into a huge drama-fest with no real way to fend off the idiots who will refuse to believe proof even if you had continuous video of the whole process.... that seems extreme.