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Question for hobby breeders

JessKeen

JessKeen

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Hello all you beautiful well-informed folks! I have a few questions for small-scale hobby breeders.

I have a 600 gram normal stripe female who is just about 5 feet long. I have been thinking about getting a butter stripe male to breed with her. I would probably save one het female to breed back later. I have never bred before and I am a little intimidated by how prolific corn snakes are. Basically my question is, how do you find homes for 30 babies? Do you sell locally, sell to pet stores (not awful ones obviously), sell online? With her size it's likely she would produce a hefty clutch.

All of the babies would be normal stripes het for amel and caramel (unless I am misinformed). I will be getting a butter stripe whether or not I decide to ever let them do the deed, because I <3 them. This is basically just curiosity at this point.
 
I've had great luck selling online, principally to members of this site, that I've been very happy with the evident care of the owners. Also sold a few locally, which is a bit more iffy, as this state seems to be largely stuck in the Dark Ages with regards to how people care for reptiles but everyone they've gone to locally has seemed decently knowledgeable so far.

Where you are in Utah, I think you should have a bit easier time of it, more people seem to be into reptiles in Utah and the level of awareness on how to care for them seems higher. There is an active reptile section on KSL classifieds, that is free to post in.
Living Safari is a very nice pet store there in Utah, I'm not sure but they might be willing to take some of your babies wholesale and Rock Star pets is also a pretty decent pet store and I know they do take wholesale reptiles from private breeders. Plus there is a Repticon show one to three times a year in Farmington and a large show once a year in SLC. That one is the best show to actually sell things at and sounds like they might be doing it twice next year. A show might be too expensive for a person with just one clutch to go it alone but you might be able to find a vendor at one of the shows that would be willing to share a table with you.
 
All the babies will be stripes no matter what else, which ought to make them more desirable . Do you know if your normal stripe has any hets? If so, you might consider looking for a butter stripe with matching hets so you have a greater chance of babies showing more traits. Which again makes them more desirable to buyers.
 
I had great luck selling my plain old amels from the first accidental clutch I had (very long story).

So I got into having more, and I find myself having the babies for a very long time, even though they are ones that seemed to be in demand and have a lot of fun hets. So... Be prepared to house your babies for over a year.
 
AliCat37 said:
I had great luck selling my plain old amels from the first accidental clutch I had (very long story).

So I got into having more, and I find myself having the babies for a very long time, even though they are ones that seemed to be in demand and have a lot of fun hets. So... Be prepared to house your babies for over a year.
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Oh, yes, I was going to mention that too. I had only 21 corn babies hatched in June this year and still have 8 left, which I was actually fairly happy with. But I'm figuring that since my best sales to date have required shipping and with winter and Christmas, I'm almost certainly going to be housing these last 8 for at least another 3 to 6 months, maybe more. So make sure you can house ideally all the babies from a really big clutch for at least a year, hopefully you might only have to keep half of them that long though. If you plan on a big clutch, you'll get a smaller one and if you can house all that big clutch for a year or more, you are less likely to need to, because that's how Morphy works, LOL! Or that's what we hope, anyway.
 
The guy who gave her to me didn't know much about her, it seemed. He told me she was approximately 3 feet long, and she was actually just under 5. He also said she was 2 years old which I doubt considering she's 5 feet long, haha. I have no idea if she has any hets, he had only had her for a few months and didn't say where she came from. I would of course prepare to house all of the babies as long as necessary. I think she would have a big clutch because she is so big, but who knows?
 
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