I figured I would post this here just in case someone familiar with this doesn't visit the retic forums.



I was speaking with a friend and fellow breeder the other day and he told me that he knew a guy that had purchased a lot of high end snakes from a breeder (name withheld) with the intention to breed them to eventually make money on the offspring,... and that year after year they would not breed for him much to his bewilderment,... and he somehow finally discovered that the breeder he had purchased them from had injected the males with spermicidal prior to sale to somehow render them sterile for life. Has anyone else heard anything similar to this? It's the first I had heard of it, and quite frankly it sounds so incredibly implausible that I immeditately discounted it as some form of horror story,.. but then I began to wonder. Sometimes fact is stranger than fiction, you know? I just couldn't see how a spermicidal would be effective for any extended period of time. Wouldn't it be filtered out of the snake's system in short time? And even if it were there and viable, how could it be detected? Blood tests? Com'mon, we need a scientist here to explain the micro details if possible. But I would most certainly dred this ever happening to me, so I would like to probe into this subject to find out any truths or otherwise. At the very LEAST to dispell this as pure nonsense so as to never worry about it again.



So has anyone anywhere ever had a problem with their stock from a particular person not breeding? If so I would be interested in hearing about it, as I'm sure other breeders would too.
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It isn't "Ideas" that fail or succeed,... it is the "Sytstems" which are instilled to launch and sustain the idea that either fail or succeed.>[Me.]

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