Breeding to Outsider

[piedplus]

I'd like to breed one of my males with another person's female but there wouldn't be any quarantine time. What would be a safe way to do it? Maybe have a vet check her out first? Maybe it's just too risky. I sure would appreciate opinions on this. Thanks.

[Capray]

Totally fine. The point of quarentine is to see if the snake from unknown orgins is sick. It's just watching the snake over a period of time to check for problems.
So if your male is perfectly healthy, and their female is perfectly healthy, everything is great. It's as if you owning of your male is it's own quarantine.

[piedplus]

That makes sense. Thanks!

[Coleslaw007]

I would personally be very careful with this. How long have you known this person and do you trust them? More importantly, how long have they had this snake? Some diseases can lay dormant for months, close to a year.

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[MarkS]

If this breeding is important to you and you really want to do it, put BOTH snakes in quarentine together and keep them both away from your other snakes.

[piedplus]

I was afraid it may be too much of a risk. I'd like to do it, but it's not really worth the risk for me. Thanks for the info!

[Royal Hijinx]

Frankly, I think the risk gets WAY overblown.

As was said above, if you know the person and you know they have had zero issues in their collection, then you should be fine. You should also be fine crossing the street today, or during the next lightening storm.

Now, if you do NOT really know the other person or know nothing about their collection, then I would not do it.


As with everything in life, you have to weigh the risk.

BTW, what is the proposed pairing?

[satomi325]

I personally put all new snakes in a strict 6 month QT minimum. Just because one's snake doesn't exhibit illness doesn't mean its not carrying something nasty. It could lay dormant in one snake and become an active agent in another.

In the end, its your decision. Its your snake. You can do whatever you want with it. Now if it were me? I would not let that female near my male or collection until she has gone through QT.

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[piedplus]

It's too bad there's no safe way to stud out a male snake like they do with dogs and other mammals. My animals are too valuable to risk. I was just hoping there was some way to do it that I hadn't thought of. I'd rather not disclose details of the pairing, I just knew a person was looking but didn't offer. Nice to have BP.net to hash out ideas. Thanks everyone!

[Peoples]

So here's the solution -
Quarantine the pair together while pairing, once done, return the male and quarantine the female before returning her to your collection room.