Quote Originally Posted by muddoc View Post
I believe that selective breeding will be the way to go for someone that is trying to keep their profits up while maintaining the same size collection. I know profits are sometimes shunned in conversation, but even though I love my animals as much as the next guy, I do need to think about the money side, as well as my collection size. I am not looking to increase the size of my collection much more than it is now. With maintaining a certain sized collection, the only way to maximize profits is to produce fewer low end animals, produce higher quality animals, or a combination of them both. With that siad, I have a few friends that I have talked to that are grading their animals, and offer a number of animals of a particular morph at a price range. Although I have not done that yet, I think it is a great idea, since the person just looking to get morph A can still come to you (instead of searching for the cheapest price), and the discriminating breeder or keeper can still come to you and spend more for a high quality animal.

As Albey said in his thread, selective breeding is here now, but I think it will be looked at harder in the next few years. I would also expect to start seeing more people grading their morphs this year. For those that have hand picked their foundation animals (as Albey has), they will be able to command higher prices, because there are people out there that want the best representation of a morph that they can find, without worrying about the cost.
Excellent post, Tim. Selective breeding is a 100% must.

I also think combining codom morphs will be more important as time passes. If the pastel mojave is only $300 more than a mojave, I think you will see a lot of people wanting the extra gene animal for a marginally higher cost. I think this will especially apply to people who know they have a fixed amount of rack space and time resources, and they want to get the most out of every animal.

JonV