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    What's your Bread & Butter Morph? Most practical parents for small breeding project?

    I would like to start breeding ball pythons, and I don't want to grow my collection beyond the parent morphs. In your opinion, what is a parent combo that produces desirable, easy to sell offspring? I'm very tempted to get a pair of Pieds, but fear no one will buy the hatchlings. I've seen hatchling Het Pieds sell for $25, which doesn't even cover the rats. So, maybe something like Bumble Bees might be a better option for me. What do you think?

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    Re: What's your Bread & Butter Morph? Most practical parents for small breeding proje

    If you had two pieds as your parents, you wouldn't produce any hets, just Pieds, which shouldn't be terribly difficult to sell. You could also get your hands on a Super of a morph that you really like for a male and a single co-dom female of another gene you liked when mixed with the male, and that way you wouldn't produce any normals to worry about homing. Super Pastel male and a Cinnamon female, for example, you'd get 50% Pewters and 50% Pastels. You might not turn a profit depending on your husbandry practices, but it could be fun and you might break even over the span of a few clutches.

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    Re: What's your Bread & Butter Morph? Most practical parents for small breeding proje

    *producing normals to home would be the biggest worry. well said.
    *I could have been more clear about the het pied comment, but you got the point.

    A super or a pair of Pieds are probably my best bet.
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    Re: What's your Bread & Butter Morph? Most practical parents for small breeding proje

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    I would like to start breeding ball pythons, and I don't want to grow my collection beyond the parent morphs. In your opinion, what is a parent combo that produces desirable, easy to sell offspring? I'm very tempted to get a pair of Pieds, but fear no one will buy the hatchlings. I've seen hatchling Het Pieds sell for $25, which doesn't even cover the rats. So, maybe something like Bumble Bees might be a better option for me. What do you think?
    Sounds like you want the reptile equivalent of a puppy mill...
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    You will never make a profit as a small time breeder. You'll be lucky to break even in the long run.

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    Re: What's your Bread & Butter Morph? Most practical parents for small

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    Sounds like you want the reptile equivalent of a puppy mill...
    That's an interesting opinion. I would like to tease it out more. I enjoy keeping ball pythons, and I think it would be fun to breed them. I have no interest or ability in having a full snake room, rack, or business. Just a hobby, and breaking even would be fine.

    Are you suggesting this is morally wrong?

    I would fear that normals might not find good homes, and my hobby would cause suffering. I assume morphs have a better chance at finding better homes.

    My dog was adopted and is spayed. Do you think reptiles should not be bred?

    Thanks for the thoughts, I value the feedback.
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    Re: What's your Bread & Butter Morph?

    What everyone is saying is it sounds like you are looking at this wrong, instead of "what's going to net me the most cash/sell well," you should be selecting morphs you personally find appealing. Yes, you may lose money on the deal but it should be looked at as a hobby, not a chance to make money.

    Pick some morphs you enjoy THEN start looking at which of those morphs will have the most likely chances of selling offspring more easily. Also, choose high quality examples of morphs, even if they cost more and you'll have a much easier time selling the babies.

    Edit: So I think you're saying you don't want to produce normals? Get a super of a morph for one of your snakes then. A super fire to a pastel for example, will only produce fires and fireflies. With a super though, it's hard to tell if the snake is a high quality morph so you'd have to see pictures of both parents and see if they were high quality examples.

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    Re: What's your Bread & Butter Morph? Most practical parents for small

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    That's an interesting opinion. I would like to tease it out more. I enjoy keeping ball pythons, and I think it would be fun to breed them. I have no interest or ability in having a full snake room, rack, or business. Just a hobby, and breaking even would be fine.

    Are you suggesting this is morally wrong?

    I would fear that normals might not find good homes, and my hobby would cause suffering. I assume morphs have a better chance at finding better homes.

    My dog was adopted and is spayed. Do you think reptiles should not be bred?

    Thanks for the thoughts, I value the feedback.
    Your first post referenced $ four or five times. That's where I was going with that...

    In the short time I've been doing this, I've seen countless people try to turn Ball Python breeding into a get-rich-quick scheme...and it always ends badly, and often the animals pay the ultimate price.

    Your explanation in this post has me doing a 180...and I applaud you for considering what you're going to do with the babies...before they've arrived. Lots of people wait until they have the babies before realizing they can't care for them all.

    I apologize for the tone of my first reply.

    Good luck with your breeding plans and I wish you the best of luck.

    Now to get back on topic...Anything Enchi, Sugar or Lesser will sell easily.
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    What's your Bread & Butter Morph? Most practical parents for small breeding project?

    I mean, if you were strictly speaking in throwing no normals a super pastel to a spider would be the best bet in bees.

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