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The other day I was thinking about how a hatchling can eat 100 cricket per day. If you (breeders) have just one clutch of 20...thats 2000 crickets/day! Now serious breeders have more than one clutch going at a time...sometimes even the not so serious breeders do just because the female can lay once a moth after mating. How do you do it? Where the heck do you get that many crickets from? I would go bankrupt feeding that many crickets to that many babies. I did the math. From birth to MINIMUM selling age...6 weeks. It would take 84 000 crickets to feed them. Assuming of course...they are eating 100/day each. (clutch of 20) Even if you could buy the crickets for 1 cent each...it would still cost you nearly $1000 to feed them...to the minimum selling age. Now..please don’t get me wrong. I am not critizing anyone. I am truly curious. I admire the breeders out there who are able to feed multiple clutches! I am in awe of those able to feed one clutch. I just keep thinking...there’s got to be a trick to it. Are you able to breed that many crickets at home? To me that would be a massive undertaking in itself...but that seems to be the only way you could do it. I also hope this post is a wake up call to backyard breeders who may not have thought about how they are feeding the cute babies...it was a rude awakening for me...and I’m not even planning on breeding! |
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| 05/05/08 03:32pm |
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Tony23 View Profile |
Message To: Gizmosmum In reference to Message Id: 1725959 How do you do it?
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| 05/05/08 05:36pm |
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Gizmosmum View Profile |
Message To: Tony23 In reference to Message Id: 1726119 How do you do it?
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| 05/05/08 07:02pm |
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Krusty View Profile |
Message To: Gizmosmum In reference to Message Id: 1726234 How do you do it?
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| 05/05/08 08:24pm |
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Tony23 View Profile |
Message To: Krusty In reference to Message Id: 1726308 How do you do it?
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| 05/06/08 05:25am |
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Bama Beardies View Profile |
Message To: Krusty In reference to Message Id: 1726308 How do you do it?
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| 05/06/08 09:01am |
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Gizmosmum View Profile |
Message To: Krusty In reference to Message Id: 1726308 How do you do it?
So there really is no trick to it? You guys really must do it for the love of it. I can’t see profit in it at all. Not unless you have some amazing quality dragons you can sell for a high price. I admire you all. I truly do. |
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| 05/06/08 10:20am |
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Jess3 View Profile |
Message To: Bama Beardies In reference to Message Id: 1726833 How do you do it?
Quote: The crickets we get wholesale for about 10 bucks per 1000. -Jay
Where do you get the crickets this cheap? I love my dragons, and I have bought crickets on Southerncricket.com but its the best deal I can seem to find. Always on the look out for a better price though. Any info would be greatly appreciated. |
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| 05/07/08 11:07pm |
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Jess3 View Profile |
Message To: Krusty In reference to Message Id: 1726308 How do you do it?
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| 05/07/08 11:09pm |
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Bama Beardies View Profile |
Message To: Jess3 In reference to Message Id: 1728826 How do you do it?
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| 05/08/08 02:09am |
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Krusty View Profile |
Message To: Bama Beardies In reference to Message Id: 1728938 How do you do it?
It’s a male. Father of the babies pictured above. He’s pretty normal at 22.5" long or so and 540 grams last I checked. |
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| 05/08/08 07:49pm |
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Langman^And^Liz^ View Profile |
Message To: Krusty In reference to Message Id: 1729719 How do you do it?
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| 05/08/08 09:05pm |
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Bama Beardies View Profile |
Message To: Langman^And^Liz^ In reference to Message Id: 1729803 How do you do it?
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| 05/11/08 04:00pm |
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