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I was thinking about starting a beardie breeding project starting with making a website and then introducing my male and females. I was wondering if i would have a hard time finding homes for the babies once they were ready to go. I have some extra space but not enough for 50 beardies : ) any breeders here have any advice?

don't do it. You will spend a lot of time and money setting up and unless you have something spectacular, you will not make a profit. The reptile market is soft right now, just check the classifieds. I have seen many breeders come and go.
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Bennett

beardiedragon.com
Home of the Florida Orange

I agree. The market is flooded at the moment. World wide too.

Take this for example. I live in Canada and I was looking in the Newspaper Classifieds months ago to find a local Breeder to pick up a related male and female (Just for personal keeping, both sexes to experience the differences in them; attitude, size, personality). There were 2 adds for breeders the next city over from me, about a 25 minute drive. I phoned each of them asking their location.

To my suprise they lived on the same street about 12 houses apart, and didn't know each other.

If you want to breed them, prpare to keep a good 85% of the hatchlings. But by breeding them, you are actually hindering the market for the reptile.

If you had extreme colour morphs, then there would be more use for breeding maybe.

My opinion, of course.

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