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Well, I still have 24 days before my eggs hit the 60 mark and most of my females are already swollen with their second clutch of eggs. Once they laid, they did nothing but eat (well they also pooped a lot). But now they stopped eating and are swelling up again. I introduced the males a few times during the past month and they hooked up almost at once so I am hopeful that most of the second clutch will be fertile too.
I hate to say it but I really don’t know what the heck I am going to do with all these corns. I guess I can Wholesale some of them off to Ben Segal and others, but even here on king snake, I don’t think I have the ability to move 200 corn snakes in a reasonable amount of time. What do some of you all do with all the babies (and I don’t mean Kathy and Don who breed for a living and produce many more then I do). I don’t sell at shows, I prefer to be a spectator. I wish I had this problem with my Boas LOL. I never seem able to produce enough of them!
Well, I am sure that others wish they had this problem, But I see my self going through 1,000 pinkies in a months time LOL (that is a lot of Mouse veal!). At least I will have a lot of babies to choose from for my own future breeders, I might even have to make some trades to get some new bloodlines too!
I can’t wait until the little guys start to pip, it is one of my favorite things to watch!
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Jim Hopkins "Hoppy"
Hopkins Holesale Herps
Hopfam1@aol.com

Sounds like you have it "bad"... I'm a first time breeder and I was stressed about moving 20 babies from my snows... lol. Kinda puts things into perspective.

Dave

Especially the cool hypo motley striped ones.
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~Sasheena

hey hoppy,

I just want to let you know if your ever in the position where you need to get rid of some babies and have know where for them to go you could just e-mail me mabe i could take some off you hands, you know if there is no place wholesale that will take them.

just though id let yah know

RV
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Corns 0.0.3
0.0.1 03' Amel
0.0.1 03' Normal
0.0.1 04' Ghost

LOL, that is why I only breed special corns. I have bred many years ago but the hassle of feeding and cleaning them and then selling them is too much for me.. I don't mind breeding Bloodreds, Pewter, Butters, Lavenders They are sold before they are born..
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Marcel Poots (Holland)
'Where is your crown King Nothing?' James Hettfield

We already have (or rather my 10 year old has) two corns (a normal and a amel both het for anerythrism). My other son wants a pair too, so we're looking at getting two more. I'd like something different looking from what we have, and enough in demand to make selling the babies easy. I don't want a morph that is prone to aggression or feeding problems. (From what I've heard that means no bloodreds although they're gorgeous). Suggestions anyone?
Corinne
dragonfly@w-link.net
8 normals, 4 pippers (3 anery, 1 normal), 1 probable dud, and 12 fertile looking eggs to go.