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update on boa breeding hobby

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undefinedjust wants to know how the breeding hobby is doing today, I havent been really in the forums heavy in some time. Are breeders able to do well with sells or is it like the leopard gecko hobby. I have some balls and boas and just want to know if I breed would I really be able to sell without and problems or is it just the big breeders that are selling anything
 
It all depends on supply and demand.. I probably wouldn't bother if you just had 2 normal average looking boas, it may be hard to sell them unless you sell them dirt cheap. I wouldn't want to be stuck with a bunch of normals babies that i'm trying to dump or give away to people that don't really know what they are getting into. If your boa drops 20-30 babies, do you think you can find suitable homes for all of them? I use to bring in alot rescues. I want to sell only higher end stuff, hopefully if somebody froms good change on a snake it's usually not a impulse buy, like a $25-$50 normal might end up.
You could always wholesale them to a pet shop. I have taken in alot of rescues in the last several years from somebody who bought a $50 boa and it got to big and it ended up getting neglected.
You may be better of doing bp's, I see the market is pretty low this year on some nice pastels, I can finally afford to buy a pair of het pieds and het albinos.
It all boils down on what you have, and if it's nicer than the next guys. I'm just happy to find good homes for my snakes and sell some offspring to help pay for caging upgrades, feeders etc. just my thoughts.....
 
what i have

I have 1. het albino poss het snow and .1 het albino boa and 1. het pied and 6. norm balls
 
you cannot go wrong producing some albinos. They have come down in price. I have seen people selling them for as low as $600, but you get what you pay for. breeding your het pied to 6 females will produce nothing more than a bunch of normals, I believe 50% poss hets. I do not know about other people but, personally do not buy 50% poss hets for much more than a normal. I know female bp's were fetching good money last year for adults. Who knows maybe hard to sell now ???
 
I would pretty much say that unless you are willing to put out a little something extra for something nice, and some females, and hopefully get something visible in return, you are better off not breeding. The cost of getting snakes up to size, and the process of breeding 2 normals, you will be lucky to have the sales pay for the cost of getting the parents where they needed to be to breed. But thats just my opinion....
 
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