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boids-n-more
at Sat Mar 26 00:35:42 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by boids-n-more ]
My thoughts on this is not many people are not slugging out with them. As long as clutches are consitently being produced the price will drop. I want to say 3 years ago i saw albino babies for sell for 800 all day long. That next breeding season alot of the hobby or little breeders ( not meant to be an insult or anything negative just to clarify now ) were slugging out or haveing premies. It was all over the forum with pics and all. then the price went up to 1200 per albino. Now its stabalized to 1000-1400. Also the market dictakes the price of animals too. You also got to look at how many animals a person can sell and if there sharp or kahl strain. Since there not compatable and the kahl strain has been the dominent strain produced that also plays a factor of price ( in my opinion sharp strain produces nicer animals but theres not as big a mrket for them). I'm going to use my self for this example. I sell my babies local and there just normal no high dollor morphs. Now lets say i got a sunglow male and 3 hypo het females and got 3 litters of 30 babies each. That would be by averages on the low side at 20 sunglows ( just say females were all supers for ease). Can i sell 20 sunglows here no i can't i'm about 300 yard away from Rich Ihles place. So therefor i would advertise on here and since i'm not a known breeder here i need to drop prices to sell my hets whitch therefore drops the price on sunglows. Then people take notice and drop there prices to compete or they continue to feed all there babies. Just for the fun of it how much were piebald balls 2 years ago and now there 8500 thats a huge drop that would woory the hell out of me if i purchased then at last years prices. Sorry its so long but it throws some ideas out there. Paul
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my thoughts - boids-n-more, Sat Mar 26 00:35:42 2005