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rkreptiles
at Sat Apr 29 05:09:47 2006 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rkreptiles ]
Tosha,
Have you ever personally imported large quantities? I have. I have imported thousands at a time and had awesome success with them. The babies that arrive before their first shed or right after do as well as any c.b.b. animals out there. We have also experienced a high percentage (probably close to 90%)of these starting to feed within days of their first shed. Now the problems start to arise when the babies sit there (in Africa) in large bins for extended periods of time. The main problem is when the importers wait to get them cheaper. The longer they sit the higher risk of them arriving and having problems. Now for your statement "A lot of them die on the way" I have never received a high mortality rate of Balls (any size) during transit. As a matter of fact the only time I have ever had any large number of deaths is a one shipment of 300 animals that came from Ghana very late in the season because the exporter was waiting to get them cheap as well. She did not have a farm any longer and was purchasing from farms and waited way too long to get them and send them to me. Of course she sat on my money from before hatching season started.
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RE: Huge lots of CH ball pythons - rkreptiles, Sat Apr 29 05:09:47 2006