Breeding Standards

[Stewart_Reptiles]

The day there are standards for mutations is the day I will quit breeding.

For those who have experience breeding we know that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and that not all mutations can fit in a standard, clown for example or pied, who is to say a reduced clown should be standard while a busy one should not. Too many variable in patterns and or colors in some mutation.

I have hatched animals over the years that did not fit the typical idea of what people have it mind when it come to that morph, so what it's not standard, does it make it less valuable? I think not quite the contrary.

If I sell something for a certain price believing is high quality sooner or later someone will recognize that and pay the price for it, if someone does not and expect me to price it like Joe Schmoe than my answer is simple "buy from Joe Schmoe"

The problem is people are not patient they want to sell their animal soon as they start eating (quality or not). Personally I don't care if it does not sell I have no problem keeping it, and if I really want to move it I wholesale it. Why? Because I would rather wholesale than offer an animal at rock bottom to an individual, just like you will never see me have an auction either.

People need to believe in their animals, and be patient, that is the main issue.

If you can't feed it, keep it or see value in it that you have to dump it, maybe you should not produce it to start with.

I have been doing this since 2006 and I have seen a lot of people come and go and it's always because they have the same complaints, and it all come backs to the points I made earlier, it's a unique market and you must be able to adjust.

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