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I don't have any right now, I'm just planning for the future. I'm looking at having around 500 baby beardies this next season and was wondering where you guys sell them. I plan on offering the best ones on kingsnake but I'm not sure what to do with the others. I have seen the ads that say they will buy at wholesale prices, who are these people, where do the animals end up, are there better ones to deal with than others, and how much is a wholesale price usually? I know it's alot of questions but any help or ideas you guys could give me would be appreciated.

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Sean

500! That's a lot. I only had 100 babies with 1 female. You must be planning on having like 5 females. But, on to the answer. I don't sell on kingsnake, but I am planning on it. Wholesale is usually for pet shops and those knds of places. The prices depend on who you are selling to. I would sell more than just the best on Kingsnake. I would sell the best and second best, possibly third best. You would be selling a lot whole sale if you don't.

I would not recommend seeling to large wholesalers. I wholesaled some hypo/snows that I had and they were infected with Adeno virus. I called the guy and told him and he said he didn't see any reason to tell his customers due to the fact there was alot of disease break outs this year and it really hurt his buisness. He said he didn't want to cause further panic. To me that is not caring about the customer or the people buying from them or the animals involved. I can't say that all wholesalers are like that but just imagine if the animals I sold him were housed in with say 100 other baby beardies and they were all infected.....
If I were you I'd locate a couple pet stores that are going to take care of them PROPERLY and also think about selling some in the local paper. You'd be surprised the response you will get when you offer a setup and a beardie for a reasonable price.
Also, if you do plan on having that many beardies have you thought about the cost involved with raising that many and the time involved in caring for them properly? How many feamles do you have? Do you have incubators and at least $1000 for crickets, veggies and suppliments? Do you have proper caging and have you studied the diseases that can plague them and done your best to protect them from that? That is ALOT of beardies and will take up ALOT of time and money.
I raised like 95 beardies and spent at least $500 on crickets and that's not counting the times I had to buy from the pet stores cause it was too cold for anyone else to ship with live guarantee.
There is LOTS more to think about than just selling lots. Just MPO.
Robert Wood

That's a shame about the wholesaler, not caring enough about anybody, especially the animals. That's exactly what I want to avoid, and why I question selling to the pet store market at all. As far as rearing prices are concerned, I've already started my colonies (roach,supers,wax,and cricks) and should be ready for the babies long before they are here. I'm not running a puppy farm type operation, the health and wellbeing of my animals comes first any money that they can make is secondary. I've already got several incubators and proportional temp control units for them, as well as cages for everyone and many extra for the babies (I use to breed snakes years ago and still have quite a bit of the stuff from that).

Hi
abit with a sad feeling i sold yesterday a 7 month old female red/gold tiger fase also named sandfire tiger .
dont mind what name you gave but stil it hurted abit
on the pic you see her.
atleast i could pick out thw owners 11 people reacted by email and 6 people called me on phone .
the couple who buy them already sold a male beardie from me a pastel mixed with a sandfire gold 3,4 weeks ago.
i ahve stil 6 adults and 3 juveniles and they looking cool to one male juvenile is awsome i wil post a pic here soon if he is shedded.
i sold her on a site that sell every thing this is indutch i think you called them bargainsales?
this is dutch example
http://www.marktplaats.nl
byeeeeeee

http://truusje.gotdns.org/~b22/foto/keepcloseup1.JPG

n/p
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TheClassyLizard

Just thought I would say that she looks beautiful.
Take care,
Karen

Many people jump into breeding and raising bearded dragons with no idea of the cost involved. Unless you have a superior line that produces high demand babies, you will end up spending more to raise them to sellable age than you can get for them. Wholesalers pay $15 - $20 per babies when they buy clutches or groups.

You have to feed babies a lot of food and if you do not, you will have many problems with nipped tails and toes or limbs.. babies are hungry little growing creatures and have big appetites, besides that, you can rarely house more than 4-5 together due to size and eating issues so you will have to have several complete sets up for them, and that is a big cost factor to do it right by them and give them the best chance for survival.

The more successful private breeders, have 2-3 quality animals they breed and produce 3-6 clutches a year. Those are manageable to care for the babies properly and have some that are marketable for the cost involved to raise them through the breeding season and offset the cost of others that do not sell or you have to house or place in homes. Mass breeding has never got anyone anything but heartache and losses, both in money and life.

Know that you have a source to selling them to, prior to allowing them to breed. We have about 20 dragons, but I will only be breeding two this season, and only then because we know we have buyers for most of the offsping, it a sad fact, but only about 5% of beardies sold to wholesalers will still be alive in 4 months.... I can not do that to dragons I raised and brought into this world.
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