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Opinions on breeding BCC

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Posted by: Joel_Thomas at Mon Dec 15 18:08:27 2008   [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Joel_Thomas ]  
   

I have wondered about this for some time now.

Lets get past the "Unless you collected it yourself thing" I think its pretty safe most of us understand that.

I purchase Suriname BCC from a reputable breeder/supplier who has gone the extra mile to verify his animals as Guyana or Suriname, would it be wrong to breed them together?

If I did pair them and marketed them as "BCC" would they in fact be worth as much as a labled animal?

Now I have BCC from Peru is that ok to "mix" with BCC from Suriname?

My answers and thoughts.

I guess I am anal but I feel that I would want to be able to offer animals from certain locales, and I would not be interested in buying a known "mixed" animal for breeding purposes.

I would also tend to think that "most" of the people that are serious about their BCC will feel the same way. Please recognize that if you do not I am not saying you are not serious, just my opinion.

Now with that mind set I am going to say that will lower the value of these mixed animals.

I would not breed animals that I aquired as Suriname to ones from Guyana, and would never even think it ethical to breed Suriname/Guyana BCC to a Peruvian BCC.

I can't really consider myself a locale guy as I will never really know 100% that every animal I own is from pairings of the labled Country. With that calling a Suriname a locale is like saying North American alterna.

Suriname has localities in it and I only know of one Locale offered that I would trust. We (myself included) have such an obsession to lable them all, and often times may be the main selling point.

I would love to hear all responses,and if you are not comfortable replying on the forum please e-mail me your thoughts.

Thanks to all of you who make this such fun.

Joel Thomas


   

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