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So honestly, if you're looking into breeding, is having captive hatched animals in your stock bad? Plus if they've already been quarantined by the person who originally had them, safe bet they're parasite free?

You should always quarentine them your self just incase the person you get them from had a problem with mites or someother illness that they have yet to find out about. Thats my opinion but im sure many here would agree.
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B Sleeper

1.0 Chocolate Lab
0.1 ?? Normal Ball python (yet different)
1.0 04 Het Albino
1.1 06 Het Albino
1.0 06 Het Pied
1.0 06 Pastel(Screamer)
1.0 07 Pastel
0.? 07 Pos Het Albino (Momma has not laid the eggs yet)

>>You should always quarentine them your self just incase the person you get them from had a problem with mites or someother illness that they have yet to find out about. Thats my opinion but im sure many here would agree.
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>>B Sleeper

Yes,most definitely quarantine them yourself!...It would be bad enough to lose a new animal...but to lose those you already have(and those you yourself have hatched),would be devastating!
Mites have a way of showing up from the strangest sources..trust that!(Not that mites would kill the animal,but if the ch snake had contracted a disease they could carry it to your other animals.)
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Charles Glaspie

CH snakes are fine. They are just as good as CB if you get them before their first shed. I would not buy any late in the season though unless you know the person you are getting them from has them acclimated and eating well. CH snakes get a bad rap from people that get the ragged out dehydrated ones late in the season and they usually don't do well. I would bet most decent sized breeders have at least a few snakes that were CH in their collection.
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John Vandegrift

I don't see any problems w/buying CH as long as you buy quality stock and quarentine properly (but you should do that anyway - even with CBB). Plus, you can find some awesome looking CH animals if you look. I have a few CH girls that I bought as yearlings, and honestly they're better looking than alot of CB animals. It seems like alot of the really unique looking normals are CH (not saying that's always the case, I have some great looking CB animals as well).

Hope this helps,
Shelly

I have a few that I got in a "lottery" bag last year, and they're doing just fine. Eating, growing, friendly. One is even growing REALLY fast.
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)

I would quarantine them yourself regardless. Just because someone else quarantined them, doesn't mean they are disease/mite/tick free or that they were internally dewormed.

I have 2 CH animals in my collection right now, both of which are really neat. I got them both at just a couple weeks old. They had already shed twice, but were eating great and doing well. One has some nifty flames on her sides, the other is a dead-ringer for a yellowbelly (can't wait to breed both).

Leilani is an '06 CH and is just under 1000g now (old pics):

And Amadeus is an '07 CH that is now pushing 300g (pics from when I first got him):

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~* Jen *~

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