I've been holding this stupid question in, but now I'm choking on it! (Dinker?)

[BrandiR]

What exactly is a Dinker? I watched a video of a guy explaining it and it seems that he's saying it's not a normal, but it's also not a recognized morph? He showed a snake as an example and he said, "You can see that it looks very different than a normal..." To me it didn't, but I can't tell what's what most of the time anyway.

Is it like the ball python scrap pile? Are Dinkers recognized as their own group, for lack of a better word? As in, there are normals, morphs, and dinkers?

[TheSnakeGeek]

lol not really. dinkers are normals. dinkers are just normals people think look special and hope their "special" look is genetic so they breed them to "dink" around with them. if someone tries to sell you a "dinker" for more than normal price, politely show them the door.

[BrandiR]

lol not really. dinkers are normals. dinkers are just normals people think look special and hope their "special" look is genetic so they breed them to "dink" around with them. if someone tries to sell you a "dinker" for more than normal price, politely show them the door.

I'm not looking to buy one. Honestly, I wouldn't even know what a good price is...for ANY of them! When I got mine, I looked at two different pictures and said, "I like that one better, but I'll take either." At that time, I didn't even know what I was looking at or how much they "should" cost. I'm a pet-snake person, that's all.

But it would be fun to be able to say, "I have dinker balls," sometimes.

[sho220]

lol not really. dinkers are normals. dinkers are just normals people think look special and hope their "special" look is genetic so they breed them to "dink" around with them. if someone tries to sell you a "dinker" for more than normal price, politely show them the door.

Depending on what they look like, dinkers normally tend to sell for a bit more than normals. A lot of the bigger breeders used to sell a lot more dinkers than they do these days. This site has some cool looking dinkers http://www.ms-reptilien.de/index.php..._15_16_774_457

Michael Cole used to sell a lot of really cool dinkers...not sure if he still does though...

[Pythonfriend]

they are also called oddballs, and i really do prefer to call them oddballs.

when i heared dinker for the first time i was just as confused, until i figured out that its about oddballs.

These big breeding farms in africa produce ridiculous amounts of ball pythons, but smaller breeders that sort of freelance for the big breeding farms are also involved. And today, anything that looks different than normal gets set aside, in Africa or by the importer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw5ZOH3PN4o
this video is unfortunately in german, but it shows Stefan Broghammer from ms-reptilien.de in Ghana looking through piles of baby BPs for these oddballs / dinkers. At the end he buys 150 BPs that he selected.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47fk8AbJ5xI
this one is with subtitles, but shows less BPs

[wolfy-hound]

A dinker is any ball python that the owner thinks might carry a morph gene, but isn't sure. This does not include "possible het" snakes that have a certain percentage of possibility of carrying a gene. Generally speaking, it's a normal snake, that looks mostly normal but may look slightly odd or different and the owner thinks it may be genetic and wants to breed it to see if it throws any morphs or at least babies that look the same "different" as the parent dinker.

You can pay more for dinkers if you want to give it a go, or you can pass them by and hope that next year the owner isn't showing off the brand new purple and blue morph that he hatched out of them. You're buying a possibility of a morph, and each person has to use their own judgement as to whether it looks like a dinker, a normal, a known morph.. and pay accordingly or pass it up.

It's not wrong to charge more than "market price" for ANY snake, whether it's a dinker, normal, morph or half sasquatch. If the price is too much, people won't buy it. But it's THEIR snake, or YOUR snake, or MY snake and as the owner, you get to say how much cash you would be willing the trade the snake for.

[Coleslaw007]

or half sasquatch.

Where do I buy one of those?!



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[Mike41793]

Checkout on FB some of the females Outback Reptiles imports. Some of them are definitely dinker worthy imo!

[Valentine Pirate]

Half ball python, half fire belly toad = soggy ball

[RobNJ]

lol not really. dinkers are normals. dinkers are just normals people think look special and hope their "special" look is genetic so they breed them to "dink" around with them. if someone tries to sell you a "dinker" for more than normal price, politely show them the door.

I couldn't disagree with you more....here's a dinker I picked up last year who's "special" look seems to have proven to be a genetic trait, and I'll be seeing more offspring from him this year. I paid a quite a bit more than the price of a normal, but not anything too out there either. Buying "dinkers" is a gamble, and lots of them have real potential, others never prove out. For the amount I paid for this one, I'd be willing to bet it will be more than worth it by time I figure out what's going on with him.