When you have co-dominate morphs like Lessers, Pinstripes, Spiders, etc in your collection, normal adult females are GOLD! ... Why would I sell a 2200 gram normal female for even $1,000.00 when I can breed that girl to a Pinstripe, get 7 eggs with 3 pins @ $8,000.00 each??? ... Prices for normal girls aren't high enough! ... I've turned down 2K for adult females ... not worth it.

WC adult's are a different story ... Personally, I'd never buy one ... Lots of importers price the gravid girls high and try to justify the cost with a "it could be a clutch of yellow bellies" or "it could be a clutch of spiders" sales pitch ... sure it could skippy ... WC's are a gamble ... lots of work to get them to eat ... 50/50 chance that they'll ever breed in captivity ... health problems ... etc ... not for me ... I'd rather use the rack space on a sure thing.

The other thing that I like to point out about adult girls is this ... To a ball python breeder, an adult female is priceless .... I would never sell a single one, but if I did for some crazy reason "need the money", there are dozens of people that I am friendly with that I could call up and move adult females to very quickly and very quietly for fast cash ... the "good ones" are are just that valuable ... I wouldn't need to run an ad on KS or take them to a show ... unless I didn't want to screw over another breeder by dumping garbage on them ... You see, lots of the adult females you see for sale on KS and at shows are someone else problems that are safer for the dirt bags to pawn off on the general public than risk taking a beating at the next show they attend by selling junk to someone that they know ... some girls just don't breed ... ever ... other girls throw slugs year after year ... some girls just constantly get RI every season that you can't get rid of until it clears up on it's own in the spring (meanwhile the male she was bred to gets sick and dies from it) ... there are TONS of things that could be wrong with an adult female that you buy on the internet or at a show that you won't even know about until many months later when you try to breed her and your male gets sick, or you wear out your male trying to breed him to a female that has been bred 4 years in a row and has never laid an egg.

I'm not saying don't buy adult girls off the net or at shows ... not at all ... I've done it ... and I'm sure I'll do it again ... I'm just pointing out that things aren't always what they seem, and there is more people out there selling their problems than healthy animals when it comes to adult girls.

(end adult female rant)

-adam