I finally decided to try some BPs about a year and a half ago. So I got a couple of normal yearling '04 females from friends who had been raising them, and more c.h. '04 yearlings from Mark and Kim Bell in the early summer of '05, for a total of 24 female '04s. So I have been raising those for the last year (more or less) and they range from just under 700 gms to about 1700 gms.



This Jan., I got my first male, a really nice pastel '05 from Chris and Sheila at Gulfcoast, and he is already pushing 500 gms. now. So he will be dad to the first clutches I produce.



Because my personal favorites are pieds and and bumblebees, and because I think albinos will always be very popular, I plan to get visual males and a couple of het females of the recessives, plus a spider male for the first female pastels I produce, just as soon as I can afford them (this summer, I think). Then those males will have their own females as well as helping to "pollinate" their share of normal '04 females.



I don't know that I even want to get into it more than that. Those are my favs, and they are ones that will always be popular because of their looks, no matter what the market price. I think it will be a lot more fun to keep it to a manageable number than to go crazy and have a zillion. (That advice comes from a cornsnake breeder with WAY TOO MANY at times, lol!) I think keeping it fun and doing other things in addition to BP breeding will be more profitable (to me, anyway) in the long run.

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