Quote Originally Posted by Dark Lady Kat View Post
Ok I have been reading over all of your post and I am leaning to agree with the rest of the group I personally have never breed snakes however I have breed and raised show dogs, & Horses, also I have breed pigs cows chickens even helped with breeding bobcats, and no matter how great the quality of a background genetics is genetics and the potential to have a normal is always possible it is the base gene you can try and decrease your odds and even lessen it to the point that you rarely see a normal but what you are saying is that you want to breed just for the pure profit of it there are many herp enthusiast that would gladly take home that off morph that may or may not be a het or a normal just to simply add that type of animal to their hobby. I urge you to find an alternative method of breeding perhaps test tubes if you wish to ensure you never receive a normal, or at the very least develop a back up plan not everyone in the world can afford a 10k snake or even 5k does that mean their 50$ normal BP will be any less precious to them because they didn't spend thousands on it no it doesn't and much like many others here have shown someone that treats their animals as disposable in the first place is more likely to abuse them not necessarily the money minded and short cashed buyer that true you will need to educate on what all will be needed so that they understand their 50$ BP will cost them a minimum of at least cage set up and heating as well as a weekly meal. I work with many rescues here in my town and everywhere I have lived animal abuse happens rather the abuser is rich or poor that shouldn't be your basis for considering culling.
for clarification purposes this was not directed directly at you octagongecko just throwing my 2cents worth out there on how you (as in everyone) can not always judge a good home by their economic standing in life. Culling a low value animals is wrong, there are homes out there if we as a people are willing to take the time to find that home. Now there is a chain of life and a predatory chain we euthanize rats before feeding them to the snakes because it is safer it does not change that rodents are the snakes natural food source. euthanizing because its not a high profit margin is an entirely different issue. I however propose that we do get back on subject because if I do get into breeding my BP and RTB I would have use for the information provided on ideas of where to sell normals to and even morphs. Another subject to throw in for this topic is price what would be a good average price to sell normals at