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morgans boas
at Mon Mar 28 21:52:30 2005 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by morgans boas ]
Hi, I'm reading your questions, and you seem (and have stated)that your anxious to get started on breeding. Well if anything, breeding Boas, and raising them for that matter, requires nothing but plenty of patients. I owned an adult trio of boas, and it took 3 years before I got them to breed. One of those never bred for me in 8 years, then I gave him to a friend, and he bred the following season. I know of others who are major Boa breeders, who've had Boas for ten years, and still haven't gotten them to breed.
I'm not trying to be a kill-joy, but if you buy yourself a breeding pair, and expect them to jump right onto each other as soon as they're together - well it may happen, but you'd be a very lucky guy. The reality is that you'll probably be very frustrated - Boas have a way of doing that to people.
My honest suggestion would be to find a pair that you want,buy them as sub-adults, or younger, raise them up for a year or two as you are continuing to learn more and more. And then when they're ready, you are also ready. General care and husbandry should be learned before attempting to start a breeding colony.
A good way to learn more is right here on the Forum. There's a button to let you search the forum archives, allowing you to read on all the past topics. That's how I learned about heating, light cycling, temps, terminology, feeding "do's and don'ts", housing, hets, Dbl hets, recessive, co-dom, dominant, and the pair of green lawn chairs mating. I truly believe that you can learn everything ever needed to know about this hobby, by reading the archives. There's always more one can learn, but all of the basics needed are here already. -------------------- Good luck,be patient, and take care, David
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--aka DMOG68
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Don't get the cart in front of the horse, so to speak. - morgans boas, Mon Mar 28 21:52:30 2005