This year (2018) I'm doing my first reptile show at Repitcon Colorado. I don't mind having a few Normals in my display case to target all potential customers. I actually should have quite a few this year as I'm breeding my males to a few Normal females. Those Normals almost look Calico or hinting towards Lesser or Cinnamon but I bought them as just plain ol Normals. I'm breeding with just a single Co-Dom in most cases this year just to see what the Normal offspring look like. If I have some other genes in there I should get 50% of the hatchlings looking a bit different (assuming it's not recessive). I think it's a good place to start proving out Normals. If I had some five or six gene males it would be almost impossible to tell if the Normal females had some influence. Next year I'm going to pick up some multi gene males, the cool thing about Normal females is that I can prove out the males, especially if I have a white snake (male) that has a lot of potential genes in the mix. Usually you can pick them up pretty cheap because most people guess at the other genes because you can't see them, just have to prove them out. And not knowing for sure usually brings the price down a lot. Believe it or not about 10 years ago a mature Normal female would sell for over $1,000! You can still recoup that cost in the first year if you breed her with just about any multi gene male.
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