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Farm bred?

Postby Majora » Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:47 am

In my search of BTS babies, I stumbled across a seller who had about 6 BTS babies for sale. I asked if they were captive or wild caught. His answer was they were "farm bred from Indonesia."

What exactly does that mean? Is that the same as Captive? Or is most likely a 1st clutch from a mother who was Wild?
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Re: Farm bred?

Postby Jeff » Wed Jan 30, 2013 11:36 am

Farm bred means it was bred on a reptile farm in Indonesia. They collect as many wild skinks as they can, and basically throw them all in a big pit and wait for them to breed. They just scoop babies up as they are born and export them to the U.S.
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Re: Farm bred?

Postby Richard.C » Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:12 pm

Or just wild collected gravid females held on to till they have babies,then exported,a term used to try and pretty up the term wikd caught by exporters,has any one ever seen pics from a farm breeder of tiliqua?
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Re: Farm bred?

Postby xxmonitorlizardxx » Wed Jan 30, 2013 1:58 pm

I have seen what I think is a farm I'm not sure though...
I should have the link up later though.
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Re: Farm bred?

Postby Bluish » Wed Jan 30, 2013 2:42 pm

[quote="Richard.C"]Or just wild collected gravid females held on to till they have babies,then exported,a term used to try and pretty up the term wikd caught by exporters,has any one ever seen pics from a farm breeder of tiliqua?[/quote

That plus any wild caught babies the locals bring into the exporter.
Many of these "farms" keep a few animals as a loop-hole to legitimize the large numbers of babies they export.
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