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Bluerosy
at Sun Jul 27 21:48:30 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by Bluerosy ]
I used to keep 300 rosy boa breeders and as you are probably aware of that the name of the game with rosys is locale specific animals. Well about 10 years back a bunch of unscruplous breeders from out west started selling their screwed up locales to east coasters as something else. They charged sums of $250-$300 for rosys that are supposed to be locale specific. Since this is not a snake found on the east coast herpers were duped. Several years later the herpers realized that the rosys they had were worthless crosses while the whole rosy market crashed and prices dropped to such low rates it would be unfeasable for anyone to make money from them.
Well guess what. The rosy locale specific animals suvived and are still around but the prices are so low that nobody gives a hoot about them. The rosys are live bearing and have small clutches at best so they are not a money maker. Now there are less people collecting them from the wild and the few people breeding them are breeding them for the right reasons... for what they are and not what they cost.
Isn't this really what we are talking about here ... your pocket books?
Maybe the same will happen to the corn market. But probably not. One thing for sure by being anti-hybrid and posting on the hybrid forum you are furthering the cause to speed things along.
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RE: hey philip - Bluerosy, Sun Jul 27 21:48:30 2003