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eunectes4
at Fri Apr 23 00:40:58 2004 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by eunectes4 ]
I don't know many breeders who are not guilty of selective breeding. We pick out what we like as far as temper and color and we mate it with another that fits it. I am not much of a fan of the designer industry. Fluctuating incubation temperatures and breeding in and out for a "designer animal" is not for me. The albino burmese started this big fad with snakes and it is the killer..they started in the 1000s and now 200$ is high. Pay 10,000 this year for a piebald and grow it up and breed it and sell the babies for 500$ each and make 25% of your money back by that time (maybe). Or selectively breed a nice looking tame anaconda or anything for that matter and you have a steady price and a happy customer. Im with you dfr. I am also on the same page as Mark Petros though..those granite yellows came from years of selective breeding and work.. over 1000 years ago along the andes mountain range lived a tribe who farmed potatos. through years of selective breeding they developed strains that could withstand anything nature could throw at it and even ended up with some pretty cool looking potatos. companies like monsanto buy these genses and then "own" by patent the genetic code of these plants..they also will inject plants with genes from other animals (ex:fish gene in tomatos to keep longer in grocery stores)..“Monsanto likes to depict genetic engineering as just one more chapter in the ancient history of human modifications on nature, a story going back to the discovery of fermentation. The company defines the word biotechnology so broadly to take in the brewing of beer, cheese making, and selective breeding; all are “technologies” that involve the manipulation of life-forms (Pollan 2001:195-196).” ..this defines a large part of what i see in our hobby...Kelly mates 2 tame green anacondas to produce tame babies...Bob Clark hybridizes pythons and sells this chiped snake for thousands of dollars (not to mention some of these breeders who sterilize offspring with certain traits before selling...I asked Mark Pertos when i was thinking about buying some hybrid anacondas..i wanted to buy them because I was offered a great deal and i could just take them to the swap and make a quick dollar off them...mark described this as an undesireble animal...I could not even morally make a dollar off a snake that truely shouldnt exist.
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RE: Albino Anacondas. - eunectes4, Fri Apr 23 00:40:58 2004