servicing my female!!!

[AndrewBobDrew]

What you think of the ethic behind asking fellow herpers if you could take your female over to them instead of spending extra cash in buying a pair? Is this bad ethic? This way it will be cheaper and you can introduce a breeding pool of different gene pools. Even produce a breeding pool with a couple mates and enjoy many more snakes. How would you repay the guy?

[HeatherRose]

That's usually called a breeding loan....

From what I hear, some people usually split up the offspring that results from the mating of the snakes, or split the profits from selling them...sometimes it's not 50/50 though, depending on certain factors (whose snake is whose, who did the actual pairing up of the snakes, who incubated the eggs, etc).

[lolaophidia]

The only concern I'd have is quarrantine. I'm cautious about introducing snakes into my collection, even after 6 months or so. Moving snakes between collections can be a recipe for disaster, if either population has any illness. If you know your friend very well and know the history of the snakes in their collection, then take the risk. I would be cautious about reintroducing the female snake back into my collection, in case she was exposed to anything during the breeding loan.

I agree with Heather that most people split offspring or at least give pick of the clutch/litter to the other party.