Here is a great breeding that I had the other day.   It is a GHI male to my Coral Glow Pastel Woma female.   She has great size follicles so this one is going to be a great clutch.   It is going to powerful because if I do make a GHI Coral Glow male he will be a F1.   What that means is when he is bred back to anything all of the none Coral Glow offspring will be males.   So this is a great way to make GHI males.   Especially when I want to plug the GHI into some different morphs.  

I am excited I have few clutches of Toffino’s cooking.   I saw the updated picture of the two year old that he has and I love it.   That is a snake that is going to sell.   Yes there are going to be a  few made but I am excited because all of my offspring are going to be het Candy.   So if I produce normals in the clutch they are het’s.   I guess I will produce Pastels in the clutch also so they too are going to be het Candy.   I think that they are going to sell very well this year.   I have a few more clutches of them to be laid and I have a Albino that is also almost gravid from him.   That will be a very interesting clutch to watch hatch out.  

I have a few other things that are going to pop out late summer and in the Fall.   I will have Banana’s and Banana combo’s later this year.   I am excited about some of them.   One of them is the Spider Orange Dream Yellowbelly female that is about to lay.  I need more Orange Dream stuff.   I have a couple of Banana surprises later this year also.   Oh and Puma production is on track this year.   It is going to be a good Puma and het Puma year.      I will also have some Lesser Clowns and Hidden Gene Woma’s and Soul Suckers this year.   So this should be a ok year after all.

Here is a picture of me and Brad Boa’s GHI male breeding a Butter with good sized follicles.  We had one ovulation over at his place already from GHI so we will have them this year.  Can you say karma!    The male at my place has also been breeding.   He was locked up with a Ghost female last week and she is going to  go so I should make GHI’s het for Ghost and possibly something cool that has never been done.  That one is staying in the top secret file for now. 

We finally have clutches on the ground so that makes me very happy.   I can’t believe how late my year is going.  I will have a few cool things this year and of course Banana’s!   I should make some cool Enchi Champagne crosses also.  This year might not be my year but next year is going to rock.   It is amazing how me getting sick and using young males set me back so much this year.  I learned some lessons that is for sure.  But I feel confident that there is going to be some cool things being produced here this year.   It helps that I have a ultrasound so I have a good idea on what is going to happen.  I have never tried to be the biggest ball python breeder but I do strive on quality and customer service!  

I think that the market is doing good as I see people looking for high dollar snakes.  That is a great sign that the market is still doing great.   Don’t believe all the hype that you should wait on the purchase because they are going to keep being cheaper.  Watch Mike Wilibanks ball game video on YouTube.   Heed his words he is right.   It makes me laugh when people say I will wait and when they come down in price then I will get in.  A good friend of mine Marshall told me that about Champagne’s a few years ago and then recanted and said I should have just bought in then.   He would have made more money.   I didn’t get to where I am at now by being scared and saying I will wait for things to come down.  You have to take risks to win big.   I can say this about the snake business you can’t lose money if you produce.   It does take time and hard work but you will prevail if you stick with it.   I see so many give up or not do the work and then they fail.   It makes me sad but I can’t do it for them.   Hell I am even going to do ok on Candy/toffee stuff even after I was deceived about their true genetics.   Got eggs cooking now and I can’t wait to see the colorful babies.   I just love colorful snakes!

Here is a picture of one of my GHI males breeding.  The other male is with my good friend Brad Boa.  He has him almost breeding.   It appears that I should get some clutches of GHI’s if I am lucky.   Hopefully the demand is there for the morph.   I have a few customers lined up for them so it will be a few clutches before I have extra for sale. 

Go to Bush League and check out all of my 2012 breeding pictures.   It took me awhile to get some breeding going this year.   The weather didn’t cooperate as it was way to hot here in Nebraska this year.   I wish we would have had more than two snow storms.  I was also using young males this year and it took them quite some time to get them going.  I will have male and female Banana’s this year.  I will have Enchi Champagne’s and Champagne’s this year along with some Desert stuff.   My Pastel Candy bred like a wild man this year so I have het Candy’s and Toffino’s coming this year.   I am anxious to see what the genetics for that morph hold.   I do like them just shady marketing on the creators behalf. 

I will also have Puma’s and het Puma’s for sale.  Along with a few other small things.   It is going to be a ok year.  I have been super busy like always.  I am starting to geek out more about my snakes lately so that is good.  I got a new male in a few days ago that I like.   You will see him soon enough.   He is a surprise for now.

Here is a picture of my Pastel Desert Ghost male getting ready to do his thang.  He has bred a few times now and he is a little guy.  I hope that he gets going strongly as I have a few Ghost’s girls waiting for him.  My breeding season is going very slowly.  I have a few gravid girls like a Mojave gravid from my Pastel Candy male.   He has knocked up three het Albino females also.  He is doing great.   That is a good thing as I have to make some money back from that project after being deceived.  Some people have no business ethics.  Is that where this business is heading?   I am scared sometimes where it is heading.

I am working with a bunch of young males and they are slowly starting to breed.   I think that I should get a few Banana’s this year with some luck.  If not I can wait until next year.  It just means that my collection will be stronger next year and produce more.  I think I needed a break after the last few years of everything going great.   It has been a whirlwind for me.  I need some time to catch up.

As some of you have seen I have had to deal with some very uneducated morons lately.   They don’t see this as business they see it has a hobby where they play with a few snakes and think that anyone who does this for money is bad.   They fail to see that we all got into this because we love snakes.   Now the fact that some of us have dropped big money and took BIG risks on projects and MADE them work and succeeded makes them very jealous.   It is something that I have been dealing with for some time.   You laugh and realize that they can’t comprehend where you are coming from.   Oh well.  

I think that I am going to sell one of my GHI males.   The bigger of the two.  Contact me if you are interested I think I am going to post him tomorrow that is if he is not sold by today.   After all that I have learned about how many are out there and what is going on with the project I feel that one male will suffice.   The ethics behind this project just blow me away.   Trust this people there will be a few GHI’s for sale this year.   Big breeders have them and are breeding them!   Can you say price adjustment!  

On that note I have to go do snake chores like usual.  On a side note my health his finally improving.   It only took two months.   Now if I could only survive paying my 2011 taxes next week.   Can you say ouch!

Here is a picture of some of my GHI’s.   It was a morph that the creator tried to keep away from me but I got into the project anyway.   Go figure politics in the ball world.   Some people will never grow up.   Anyway I think I should be ok and produce some this year as I am using multiple males and I should make some cool combo’s with them.   Now please don’t email me asking me for prices on them.   I don’t quote prices on anything until I have babies out of the egg.   I get those emails all the time and it really annoys me.   I think people who quote prices before they have the snakes out of the egg are just plain stupid.   It hurts the market and it gives the vultures time to run around and tell everyone that such and such quoted me this.  And they go hunting for the lowest price and people start dropping their prices to compete.   Good job no market stability. 

My health is improving so that is good.  Maybe one of these days I will feel better.  My season is still going slow but it is going to pick up.   We are getting slammed with snow right now.  That is what I need.  My Pastel Candy male is locked up with a Mojave that has big follicles right now.   I am going to have a good number of het Candy’s and Toffino’s this year.   I will be selling most of the offspring to make my money back.   I think that I should make a good chunk of it back this year.   Well I have to go and move snow so I am out!

My wife and I went to the Bahamas right after the new year.   We stayed at the Atlantis resort.   It was a very awesome experience.  I even left my iphone at home and didn’t take calls.  I really liked it.   It was weird being disconnected from the world but it opened my eyes a little how much you can get tied up into when you run your own business and work a job and have a family.   It can be damn tiring.   I saw tons of sharks and even snorkeled with them so that was very cool.   Things you don’t get to do here in Nebraska.  

Once we arrived home I became very ill.   I had to go to the hospital as I had a bad kidney infection and it had spread into my body.   I was very sick and even on Oxygen.   Wow that sucked.   I don’t think that my body is ever going to recover from all the tests that they did on me.   I hate needles and I was getting stuck on average 5 times a day.   Can you say ouch!   I am home now and getting back on my feet.   It might take me some time but I will get there.   I am not going back to the hospital that is for sure.

On the snake front I don’t have a ton of things going on.   My dad came down and helped me move out some old rodent racks that were going bad.  I got new stainless steel ones so we shall see how they hold up.   I was getting damn tired of all the floods that I was dealing with.   Rats and mice suck and we in this business have to deal with them everyday.

I don’t have much breeding right now.   I am not sure how my season is going to end up.   The last two years I have had just bang up great seasons.   Maybe I am due for a bad one.   To be honest I could use the rest.   It has been crazy!   But hey the success has been great.   Here is a picture of my Pastel Candy male breeding a het Albino girl.   I should make a good number of het Candy’s this year and Toffino’s.   I need to make my money back on that project so he is going to work hard over here.   Can you say 15 clutches from one male.   I can and he is going to do it.   He has the distance I can see that.  

I need to get some old males like my Super Phantom and Lesser Clown in the breeding mood.  It has been to warm here and we haven’t seen any snow.   I wish I had a foot of snow on the ground right now.   That is what I need.   Bring on the bad weather.   I know it sounds weird doesn’t it.   I am a snake charmer that is for sure.   I need to get my Banana project back on track.   It looks like I am going to have competition this year.   That is fine I will be competitive and still do just fine.   I laugh at all of the discussions that go on about the Banana project.  It really shows how many people want it.   Even those that have some want more!   It is the best thing ever to happen to the ball world.  It is like the Pastel it can be mixed into anything and make it better.   I am very happy that I was able to see how BIG this project really was going to be.   It has changed my life forever!

I just checked and it has been forever since I last posted.   Wow I have been busy.   I have been traveling and busy with two children.   I am also part of Blue Blood Brewing.  Go check out them out they have a website and they are on facebook.  My friend Brian makes some damn good beer.   I am thinking that the company is going to do very well.  

On the snake front I got killed with my last clutch of the year.   I bred a Lesser Champagne female to a SpinnerBlast Coral Glow male and I got a pair of Champagne’s and SpinnerBlast Coral Glow female.   I really wanted to make the Coral Glow Champagne.   Oh it will be done in 2012 for sure.   I have been working on getting the snakes up to size for this breeding season.   When you have more snakes it is tougher.   I see now why people who get bigger so often fail.   You have to stay at the right size to be just right.   I have never been a advocate of people getting huge and have buildings and buildings of snakes.   To me it feels like to much commercialization.   It hurts the business in the long run trust me.   I know! 

You can see by the picture that I just had my first breeding of the season.  It is a Pastel Butter Genetic Stripe male to a Genetic Stripe female with 17mm follicles.   I waited for quite some time before I started this year.   I have some very important young males that I need up to size and working this year.  I think I can say that I should have GHI production this year.   I know that morph is heavy in demand so I think that it will do me just fine.   Like everything out there it will come down in price like everything else.   I think in 2012 we will see more prices coming down faster.   The economy is not that good and there are a lot of people out there in the game now.   Hell I seen people giving Banana males away on breeding loan this year.   Ouch!   Some people don’t think about the business in the long term.   You can’t control it you just have to learn how to roll with it.   And that is something I have learned to do real well.   Bring on 2012 !

Today is my birthday and I turn 35.   Wow do I feel old.  I can’t believe where has the time flown to.   I am looking forward to having a great day as I get to spend it with my friends and family.

Here is a picture of the Extreme gene that I got from the Contender aka Ken Macek in Tinley.   I think that this gene is going to make some great combo’s in the future.   He has done some cool things with it and I feel more are coming.   Have you seen the Butter Extreme Gene.   Talk about one hot snake. 

I have had people telling me how they are starting to breed over at their places.  I am waiting still.   I have some young kickass males that need to get up to size.   If they are not going by January I might be pulling what hair I have left on my head out.   Wish me luck.   If I get the things going that I want to then it is going to be a great 2012.   I should be thankful because 2011 rocked and I have never had so much success in my life.   I did real well this year and I hope to do half as good next year.   Fingers crossed.   I can see what combo’s I want to make so let’s hope that it happens. 

I have another investment that is getting ready to talk off here this week.   It has been in the works for some time and I feel that it is going to work out great.  I am very excited about this project and have all the faith in the world that is going to go big time.   More on that later.   I also have some new toys that have to arrive soon.   I might put up a picture of me running around at night with a night vision PV14 strapped to my head.   I feel that it is time for a few more toys.   Just eight years ago and could have never dreamed of owning the stuff that I have now.   You have to love the Reptile Business.   It is a great business and I hope that tons of more GOOD people get into it.

I finally broke down and updated my available section.   I need to make more time to do that.   I promise it is something I am going to work harder at to do.   It doesn’t really take that long and I just need to make the time.

I got back from the Tinley Show.   Wow is all I have to say.   There were lots of ball pythons there.   My daughter Alexis had to go to the ER on Sat due to Croup.   That was scary and I had Kallie with me while Gretchen was with Alexis in the ER.   Talk about stress.   It was hard to focus.   I have to thank some good friends for all their help otherwise I wouldn’t have made it through.   I was wiped out after the show though.   I still haven’t recovered.   I do want to thank my customers and friends who bought from me there.   I really appreciate it.

Here is a picture of my Champagne Enchi male.   He is pounding rats and I am hoping that he is going to be a great breeder this year.   I have to start thinking about this breeding season and I am making prepartions for it right now.   I have some young males that I am focusing on so it might be a light year.   That would be ok I guess.   I need a break.   Yeah right if you know me I can’t sit still for too long .   I am excited about some future projects.   I know that this is going to be a good Toffee and Candy year for me.   I look forward to selling het’s and visuals next year.   Can you say Karma!