Posted by:
rainbowsrus
at Fri Jun 5 14:02:15 2009 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by rainbowsrus ]
Sounds good, couple of questions.....
Are you going with three litter "batches" for a reason? The cycle you propose (3 litters started every four weeks) is 39 litters per year or 390 - 468 babies (10 - 12/ litter) But taking away 15% for my average fizzles, that's 330 - 400 / year.
I do weekly starts of one female per male, that has the potential of 52 litters per male or 520 - 624 babies ( in reality less as a few litters will be crap, more like 440 - 530)
I'm running 13 males right now and am getting around 11ish litters a week. Typical litter size is 12 or somewhere around 100 - 130/week. That's 5200 - 6760 / year - crap I never though about it in that magnitude.
Not sure what you are feeding, I'm in a range from hatchlings to adults. In addition to brdeeding/birthing cages, you will need growout cages as well. At least one for future breeder females and likely another for a future breeder male and however many you need for larger feeders for larger snakes. ----- Thanks,
Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com
0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)
LOL, to many snakes to list, last count (05/26/2009):
36.51 BRB
29.42 BCI
And those are only the breeders 
lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats   
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