Just a couple of pics...

[Jeff_Favelle]

http://members.shaw.ca/galleryb/BF6_ovulate_2004.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/galleryb/iBP5.jpg

[mykee]

Very nice, but you're a bas***d for teasing us like this...:hammer:

[Jeff_Favelle]

LOL, sorry my man. ;)

[Tim_Cranwill]

Nice Mojave! ;)

[BoidKeeper]

Nice Mojave!
Yeah he wishes!
Great pics Jeff,
Trevor

[Bartman]

that second bp is just amazing! Nice guy

[elevation24]

Great pictures! :) Thanks for sharing.

[emroul]

Wow! Those are great lookin' girls. :) (Wait, are they both females?) Awesome either way.

Jennifer

[Jeff_Favelle]

Ha ha Jennifer. Yes, both gravid females that just had their pre-lay sheds on March 25th and March 27th respectively!

Thanx guys! :D

[David Kwok]

I see some black back pastels and high blush pastels comming!!

Good Luck Jeff!

Dave

[Jeff_Favelle]

Ha ha, anything like that would be a god-send Dave! I just want money to buy more morphs!! LOL! Screw buying a house or taking the girlfriend out for dinner! :)

[GreenNeutron]

Wow. I want to say that I admire your dedication to these animals. Your collection of beautiful snakes is nothing short of amazing. How do you get the resources to keep so many? I'm impressed! Those girls are beautiful.

[Jeff_Favelle]

Thanx! That's awesome of you to say!

It didn't happen over night and I didn't just go buy 100 snakes within a short time span. It starts with getting a wicked breeding pair of something, and then instead of pocketing that money, flip it back into more animals. Keep doing that for 10 years, and you don't have to use a PENNY of your own money! It takes longer, and many people just get 50-grand and buy whatever they want. Not my style. I just make sure that everything I own is bred. I don't move on until I've bred it. This ensures that if I fork out $10,000 on a project, I have a good chance of getting it back because I've worked with animal(s) already.

Cheers! :D

[jparker1167]

thats amazing always love reading your post you always have great info by the way sweet pics keep it up thanks

[Jeff_Favelle]

Thanx brother! :D Much appreciated. Totally.

[GreenNeutron]

Wow. I must say I admire your dedication there, I'm fairly new to the hobby (although I've been interested in it for many years) but already I can tell that it takes lots of discipline to not just go out and buy whatever and just be in some credit card debt for a while. :-P

So basically everything you pay for involving the snakes you own, comes from profits that you make selling offspring? Like their food and electricity for heating them and everything? Or do they just pay for the initial purchase of new animals and their setups? Or do you actually have so many that they pay for you too now? (Because judging by how many eggs you're incubating now, it definitely sounds like a full time job to me!)

Ok. one more question. ;-) What would you suggest as a good species or two to get started with? I'm sure that there are at least a few more new herpers wondering the same thing.

Thanks,
Melissa

(oh and I'm in the southeastern U.S.A. so definitely never competition ;-))

[Jeff_Favelle]

Exactly. The only money I have ever spent was like $300 in 1991 on 1.2 Ball Python babies and $500 in 1994 on a pair of Rainbow Boas. Everything else has been bought with money made from breeding the animals, selling/trading them and then breeding those animals, etc etc.

Not quite a full-time job yet, but definitely within the next 2 years. I'm in transition right now where its pretty much enough money to not have to work, but if I don't, then none of that money can buy new animals. I have too many animals still on the wish list to stop collecting, LOL!!

I would start out with a cool milksnake. Easy to keep, easy to breed, not terribly expensive, and its a little different than what EVERY SINGLE person starts out with. Couple milksnakes, 2 clutches of 10 eggs equals 20 eggs x $75US equals $1,500. Take that $1,500 and buy something cool! You're on your way in 2 years! Piece of cake! :D

Cheers!