Posted by:
Aaron
at Wed Mar 5 09:18:19 2008 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Aaron ]
" the profound difference between commercialization of wild caught and captive born herps."
That is a good point. If you collect a young pair of wild caught kingsnakes and sell them, your yield is two. If you collect that same pair and breed them, selling only the babies, your yield is something around five per year.
If you hold back a pair from the first clutch then in three years you are producing 10 babies per year.
Hold back a pair of F1's every year until the original pair dies(figuring about 10 clutches over the life of the female) you have 10 pairs of F1 breeders capable of producing easily 50 F2 babies per year. Since you can generally inbreed for at least 3 or 4 generations it is not out of this world to think that one well managed pair of wild caughts can produce thousands of babies brefore outbreeding is needed.
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- Herp Groups: Commercial & Recreational - OHI, Tue Mar 4 02:19:42 2008
- RE: Herp Groups: Commercial & Recreation - Joe Forks, Tue Mar 4 07:13:21 2008
- RE: Herp Groups: Commercial & Recreation - brhaco, Tue Mar 4 07:45:11 2008
- Also- - brhaco, Tue Mar 4 08:21:47 2008
 RE: Herp Groups: Commercial & Recreation - Aaron, Wed Mar 5 09:18:19 2008
- RE: Herp Groups: Commercial & Recreational - lbenton, Tue Mar 4 13:11:17 2008
- Can we hear from some new folks? - OHI, Tue Mar 4 14:08:32 2008
- RE: Herp Groups: Commercial & Recreational - jscrick, Tue Mar 4 15:42:39 2008
- Horses.. - jpenney, Tue Mar 4 16:41:16 2008
- Thanks Ernie and John - OHI, Tue Mar 4 19:13:05 2008
- RE: Herp Groups: Commercial & Recreational - luhrsreptiles, Wed Mar 5 20:23:26 2008
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