Well I can give you a little advise form my personal experience...... that is all.



I ended up breeding a Snow with Hypo about 2 years ago. Hypos are known for laying larger and multiple clutches. From my one breeding I ended up with 5 clutches the first four totalling 99 eggs and the last one 17. The last one went bad as I didn't realize she was still gravid and sold her wqhere she laid during shipping. After the initial breedding the first clutch came about 8 weeks later. After that the clutches came around 4 or 5 weeks apart untill the last one which was about 8 weeks again. The last clutch or two will take longer to lay most generally.



Make sure her calcium intake is larger and give her extra food during the entire time she is gravid. You will also only be able to put one clutch in the hovabator as well. I had to buy three and then I sarted being able to reuse them as the first clutches started hatching out.



As for is that cross a marketable one? Well, it depends. Do you know the bloodlines back several generations on both sides? How is the market for yellow dragons right now? What are you going to charge? There is alot of things that you will need to think about to get hat answer.



As far as marketing them........ I would start rubbing elbows with some of the local pet stores and let them know you are going to be having some hatchlings in a couple three months. When they hatch and are ready, put an ad in the local paper and seel complete setups to people, online you will be able to move the higher colored ones for a better price so find a couple different places to advertise. As for the ones left over after all that.... probably finding a wholesaler would be a good idea.



If your as handy as you seem to be..... you may want to consider building an incubator. There is a great plan on building an incubatoer at www.dachiu.com You could build one for less than you could buy a couple more hovabators and there wouold definately be more than enough room for multiple clutches in that one incubator. This would save money on electricity as well.



As far as food goes....... I would consider buying silkworm eggs in bulk and hatching them. You can get 10,000 eggs for 35 bucks and the food to raise them up enough toi feed the hatchlings... it would be much cheaper this way. If you buy cricket the cheapest way to do that is buy at least 10,000 at a time. You don't have to worry about running out and they are cheaper that way. You can also slow their growth rate if needed. but the hatchlings, especially if you only feed crix will eat a CRAP load of crix.



I think I covered everytihng you were asking about but if not just hollar....



One more thing are the 9 your getting and then the other 5 all from the same breeder? If not I just want to caution you about quaranting them from each other. There may be no problems but if there are....... Better to be safe than sorry!



Congrats on your project coming together and good luck!!





Later,

RObert
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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,

adored by little statesmen, philosophers and divines.

Ralph Emerson

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