when comparing the markets of corns and balls the number of mutations is about the only similarity involved. With corns you can get 40 eggs from each female yearly with very little trouble, I know of one breeder in South Carolina that produced 5 clutches of eggs that produced almost 80 live babies in one year from a female corn. That many clutches is rare from what I know of corns but double clutching is very very common. It is very easy to produce very high numbers of animals in a very small area. Most adult corns can be kept in 32qt tubs. On the other hand ball python females may produce 40 eggs in 5 years and that's a huge maybe. The size of tubs needed for adult females is a little larger thus cutting down on the number of possible animals in a facility. Egg incubation is not as tolerant of mistakes with any python egg as colubrid eggs are (my first clutch of eggs ever was a clutch corn eggs incubated on damp paper towels on my closet shelf 15 years ago).

Do I have a problem with the prices dropping to more affordable levels? NOT AT ALL. I look forward to the day when someone can buy a pied that they have been wanting for years without having to go deep in debt. With lower prices and increased production more people are able to add these incredible animals to their collections. The one aspect that I do not like is that as the prices drop, these animals will inevitably reach pet stores where these animals that we work very hard for are going to see the same dismal end that alot of the CH babies see every year, death by ignorance of store owners, employees and finally the buying public.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of female holdbacks and several rescue normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns


a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

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