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a friend of mine has 2 large bp females that he has raised since they were very young both are cb and he said he would let my pastel stud them and we would split whatever the outcome was would a quarantine process be recommended in a situation like this.i have 8 bp's is quarantine right now on a different level of the house if i brought his females in could i put them with my collection or should i wait until the 8 quarantined bp's come out of quarantine approximatly in april/may

Sounds to me like a judgement call. If your friends standards are as high or higher than yours; and the animals are not sick in any way; I don't see a problem.

Quinton

No offense to you or your friend, but I would reconsider the 50/50 split of those eggs. A pairing like that would not normally yield a 50/50 breakdown of offspring.
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www.strictlyballs.ca

Are you suggesting the pastel male owner should get more or less than a 50% split?

I guess I can see this being anyware from half to 1/10 of his annual breeding effort but it's all of the girls annual effort and they take a lot more time and feeders to get to breeding size. At this point his monetary value might only be twice to 4 times that of big normal cb females if you want to figure the split that way. If two females are half of his breeding effort and he is 4 times more valuable than each (twice as valuable as both together) then perhaps a 50/50 split is perfect.

Randy, I see what you're saying and I feel that the pastel owner, regardless of how many females he is breeding, should still get more than 50% of the clutch. The way that you broke it down, you were dividing the value of females into the male. In that case, if a male pastel were bred to someone elses normal female, then a 1:2 or 1:4 price breakdown is in order. If the male pastel ($1500 Cdn.)is valued at 4 times the female normals ($400 Cdn.), the breakdown of the clutch would bot be 50/50 but 25/75. The owner of the male pastel would split the clutches 50/50 if he breeds 4 females successfully ($400 X 4 = $1600 (the price of the male pastel). Last I checked clutches were split according to value of the snakes in a breeding loan.
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www.strictlyballs.ca

what do u mean, i dont have any other breedable fems this year so this is a chance for me for some freebie babies

...build a third floor?
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Charles Glaspie