There is an ad for hog island boas crossed with hypo C.A. boas in which none of the snakes for sale received the hypo gene. They are being sold for $300 each! I always wondered what happened to all of the normal offspring from the new hypo/hog craze because I assumed no one would want them. I can't believe anyone would want to pay $300 for a cross they could make with a $40 C.A. boa and a $150 hog. If anything the value of the resulting snake should be far less than that of a normal hog! It looks worse and is not pure. Lastly the seller sates that you can breed the animals back to each other and get "something new." How is this? They are 50/50 hog/C.A. boas now and their offspring would still be 50/50 hog/C.A boas.
I have always felt that the whole lack of pure hog islands thing was over blown because I could not see why early breeders of hogs would want to cross a light colored snake with anything else. The unique appearence of the hog would demand a higher price than one crossed with a more common snake so why cross? However, now there is a good reason to cross hogs, to obtain hypo/hogs. So now the resulting 50% normal hog crosses will enter the market in large numbers and eventualy make the task of finding a pure one even more difficult. Sad. OK I'm done complaining.
