The topic of discussion was why were snow boas so expensive to which Jeremy stated one reason was mortality rate. Here's part of his post from this time last year.

Posted by: Jeremy Stone at Fri Apr 30 11:43:47 2004

1. Like someone mentioned below, they are a Double simple recessive gene. VERY HARD to produce NUMBERS. I have nice group of adult males, but still. I breed a SNOW to a DH snow, and only 1/4 of the babies come out SNOW. You really have to have power animals or just a lot of patience. Another thing with the Double Simple recessive gene. Many Albinos are weak as babies. They have a VERY hard time digesting that yolk, and if that yolk is very large, then they just don't make it. Some snows born just a DAY or 2 early have a tendency because they are "Albinos" to do the same thing. They have a HARD time lasting through those 3 CRUCIAL first days. So, with the GENES being rare, and this difficulty, it is MUCH harder to produce LARGE numbers of Snows.

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