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Have any of you ever considered selling crested gecko eggs to other hobbyists? I am overwhelmed with eggs and have a possible local buyer, but what would one charge? I have all in my hovabator set at 75F. My current breeders are all above-average quality having come from Sandfire, Dragon's Den and Sticky Feet Exotics. I have 6-8 eggs laid in April which have grown appreciably so are viable and very close, another dozen just collected within the last few weeks and a bunch more in between. Obviously the ones about to hatch are worth the most, but what would be a fair price? The advantage to a buyer is ready-made samples of all my bloodlines inside of a few weeks from which to pick and choose which to keep and which to sell. I have gotten better than 65% screamers from these breeders, with the rest being respectable dalmations and darkfires.
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Terri
4:9:5 crested geckos: Bear, Goldfish, Kermit, Brimstone, Big Red, Olive, Smudge, Belle, Brilliant, Tina, Brick, Toni, Beauty, WildSpatter-Spots-to-Spare, Randi(y), Shine, Squeak, & Bling. (last 2 just hatched)

This is a new one, never heard of this before. They would probably have to be sold "really cheap" I mean its not like you have put lots of time into them (I'm not trying to make you mad or anything I just saying its not like you have to clean their cages, feed them, etc) your buyer would basically just be paying for the morph. The price is how much you think they are worth and what the current market price is for that morph.

Hope this kinda helped

Derek
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Derek Dunlop
DDReptiles
http://www.freewebs.com/ddreptiles/index.htm

That's true, but I do have the time and money into buying,
raising and caring for the adults even if it is a labor of love.
And the eggs are from ALL of my breeding groups which is quite a
nice (quality) collection, if I do say so myself. It includes damations, fires, & harlequins; some with amazing color. I realize that it's a novel idea, and maybe not even practical, but I appreciate your input.
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Terri
5:10:7 crested geckos: Bear, Goldfish, Kermit, Brimstone, WildSpatter-Spots-to-Spare, Big Red, Olive, Smudge, Belle, Brilliant, Tina, Brick, Toni, Beauty, Shine, Randi(y), Squeak, Bling, SqueakII, and 3 as-yet-unnamed beauties from Randy May (maybe Stripe, Redhead and Speckles).

With parrot eggs often times they are sold at about 10% of the value of weaned baby (this of course has a "no guarantee" that the eggs will hatch or that they are even fertile in the first place. Maybe you base it on that sort of thing. 10% of the average value of you breeders.

That's pretty fair mostly when you consider that the chances of them being fertile are good if you have a successful breeding group and they are 1000 times easier to incubate and hatch than a parrot egg.

Steve

herad it done with chikens aswell,
me i ed wait till they hatch min
imho
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