Why are the ladies more expensive?

[ddbjdealer]

save your money for a homozygous male and as many het females as you can. Your odds are SIGNIFICANTLY better down that road!

Thats the road I'm going down.... Homozygous males and het females.... More initial cost, but better odds and faster returns...

[sirhissball]

I understand the return/profit margin, and odds...but I doubt that I do it to try and make a bunch of money. I'm interested in doing it because it sounds like fun, and I like raising snakes. I imagine I would sell some of the offspring, but that is not my driving force.

[cassandra]

Not to derail, but Sirhissball, your sig says you have bison - I'd love to see some pictures if you have any. =)

[srozell]

Aren't there rules against naming Bison "Bambi". I bet he gets beat up a lot.

[JLC]

Aren't there rules against naming Bison "Bambi". I bet he gets beat up a lot.

ROTFLMAO!

[sirhissball]

Not to derail, but Sirhissball, your sig says you have bison - I'd love to see some pictures if you have any. =)

I do have pics..I need to get them posted, I'll try to get them on my comp sometime this week, I need to post pics of my snakes too. Sadly our Buff. named Death met his demise at the hand of the butcher yesterday...he was a big boy; 2800 pounds, nearly 8 feet at the top of his shoulder...tasty. The other two, Bambi (he does get picked on) and Danny DeVito (the worlds smallest bison) are being kept as pets.

[rabernet]

Thats the road I'm going down.... Homozygous males and het females.... More initial cost, but better odds and faster returns...

I, unfortunately, do not have the funds to go this route, so I have to go the very slow route of a heterozygous male, creating possible hets with normal females and raising the possible hets.

While I understand saving the money that I would be spending over those years, for me, that's easier said than done - money has a way of burning a hole out of my pocket. I haven't been able to find flame retardent pockets yet!

One thing that I am considering is purchasing a female pastel however, breeding her to the het hypo male, and perhaps doing some trades with the pastel poss het hypo babies. Unfortunately, my dreams are bigger than my pocketbook!