Another factor you have to account for is "breeder burn out". And, I'm not taking about humans getting tired of them. I'm taking about the animals that don't breed anymore.

Go back 8-10 years....remember, they was 3 or 4 guys producing 20-30 BHPs every year. In the last 5 or 6 years....they've had nothing. One keeper moved all his animals out because he was frustrated at them mysteriously stopping breeding. Another guy I know....who was producing each year....hasn't produced anything in the last 4 years....not that he doesn't want to.

They are certain things these animals can take... and certain things they can't.
The information on how to keep these animals....in the long run....will be worth more than the animal itself.

I've been very generous with the info I've given out and in a way, I take blame for the cheap animals that were sold recently because I verbally gave the guy the info to hatch them. Talked with him on the phone for hours about how to set them up, etc.
And, it's not the first time I've talked guys through it....but, it will be the last.
Not that I've got a better system than anyone else but, Along with Keogan....we have been more successful at this species than most other folks with em'.

There's a certain way they need to be kept in order for them to have a long productive happy life.

So, that information only travels with the sale of my animals from now on.


D.

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