lol Really? Anyone who would euthanize an animal that they produced just because they don't want to take the time to find it a home or take care of it, SHOULD NOT be breeding. That has got to be the most ignorant thing to do. Animal lives should all be considered equal, I agree with that. But to say you could use it as compost... what? You want a blonde child and have a brunet.... compost? Could anyone here find it acceptable for someone who breeds... dogs, to say 'I don't like this color dog, I'm going to "humanely euthanize" this litter because now it isn't worth my time'. If you are going to take the time to breed ANYTHING, educate yourself and have some sort of values. Don't sit here and say it is a hobby, not about money, blah blah blah... and then come out with some lame excuses about why you should cull normals. When you take it into your OWN hands to produce new life, I feel it should be assumed that the FIRST requirement is to provide basic, simple and deserved care and quality of life. You want to produce life to benefit you in any way shape or form, care for it an respect it. You want to feed a king snake, that's great. That is a life that deserves to be cared for. Compost, isn't that the same thing as a trash can? Nothing you're going to grow could ever benefit any extra from dead ball pythons that you didn't want to be bothered with. (*Not saying dead animals are not good for compost, only that it is stretching logic of a life cycle and morals to cull, just because...*) Culling is not out of the norm.. deformities, kinks, injury, neglect or otherwise suffering the obvious and (I hate to use this word) humane thing to do is cull in some situations.
And the other thing, that never ceases to amaze me, is how you could breed a Bee to a Spider and get "a high percentage of normals". I either missed something cosmic there, or I am still learning new things every day.
*rant is completely over*