Amaretto Breedable K9's, Horses and Barnyard Birds Pricing and Market Values in Second Life

Hello again from the Second Life Grid and to all you Amaretto Breedable Pet owners !  I am writing to everyone as Lil Bad Bigbear Jr this month and I am glad to see that more people have seen and read my blog. Lately I have been concentrating on the K9 Market because well who does not love puppies and dogs, but these blog posts pertain to all Amaretto Breedable Pets for the most part. the last few posts I have explained markets and tools as well places to get and idea about the markets for these animals. Lately in second life there has been many different breedable markets that suffer from market values and manipulations to the point that some breeds and breedables just do not hold value. It can be expected that after a new coat or breed is released eventually value will fall, and well this can be expected in almost all markets in rl and in sl due to supply and demand. But there as well has been more reasons in some of these markets than in others.  Some of the breedable makers and creators are just not prepared for the work involved but the creators of Amaretto's take care and pride in new special editions and limited editions to help the markets stay strong. Yet still without the cooperation of breeders, buyers and sellers nothing is guaranteed.  One of the first steps to preserving a fair market is education of the breeders and introduction to new breeders without alienating anyone.

 (  I would like to point out that not all breedable animals / pets , plants, bugs, fairies, dragons, WK Cats, Kittycats etc ... do not work the same. Different companies have different ways that there pets work. For example biobreeds have far less traits and trait slots than the WK Cats, Battle Beast Dragons and Amaretto Dogs, Chickens or Horses.   Some pets can fight for example the Battle Beast Dragons or the WK Dire Wolfs and as well the Amaretto and ABC horses can race if they are of the racing breed varieties and these racing horses have trait spots for this.   Trait slots and traits are a large part of the breeding and what makes your pets and animals unique. I will go more in depth about the traits soon but if you read through my other posts you can get and idea of what I am talking about. Also I will add some permanent pages on this blog covering these types of differences in animals of different companies and breed etc..)


       Yes no matter what market you will have people that just don't care and are trying to make a fast buck not understanding that well second life is not about money but rather being able to do things you cannot in real life.  For example I no longer can run , jump or well participate in many activities that physically taxing to our bodies so that is why I am often seen running around as kid again and posing as Lil Bada Bigbear Jr.

  So that being said and back to the markets of breedables and retaining fair market values. I have pointed out the value of Petrades and how it works, as well how it can be a market tool to help you with pricing. There are other things that are important as well to understand, one is that each animal can be from 11 to 18 prims or well 22 to 30 something for a breeding pair so well if you are breeding you have to remember to include this in pricing of animals. Also if you have say 50 breeding pairs of dogs that is almost 2000 prims in order to breed them per week meaning if you are way over your head and now have to start selling dogs, horses, cats or even birds just to make your tiers fees at a dirt cheap price than you are a hoarder and hurting the market for everyone else because you still need to feed these animals and provide salt, toys and other breeding helpers to get them to mate and make more.  Just as and example again 50 breeding pairs will consume one breeder food per animal a month to keep them from getting sick  ... this in lindens will cost over 11,000 lindens per month as well and I have seen many people just not grasp this concept when it comes to breedables because you will also need the mating aids also that in turn will cost over 6000 lindens also. So just to start getting a rough estimate 50 breeding pairs  we have at the least about 2000 lindens a week for land and that is a very rough estimate depending on the breed  so for a month consider on the land around 8 to 10 K plus the 6K for breeding aids and another 10 K plus to feed them and you at close to 25 K which is $100 or more in real US dollars ...  and this is where the problem starts .... People tend to look at the minimum you can sell the animals for making there lindens and not paying back in with real money ... but they do not have the money for a few months breeding already set aside nor do they pay there tier 3 or 4 weeks in advance and well so now they have to sell cheap in order to pay for what they have amassed ....  ( or hoarded as well ... )

     So you may ask if there is a solution to retaining a strong market you may ask ?  Many would like to blame everything but the problem itself. For example saying that breedable company should have had less drops and made these animals traits more rare. Well that will not help because some people will just continue to breed more animals than they can afford and still sell even cheaper to try and keep this never ending cycle going and thus ruining it for all because of there own selfish and greedy excuses. Not paying huge money for traits breeding the animal a few times and than dumping the animal cheap and using its offspring to crash the market is just another reasoning.  If you have offspring and do not need the parent anymore than send it to breedables heaven and get the haven points as it is a better solution, seeing they can be used to get special edition paradise puppy or a haven horse or pet food or even sick animal vaccinations ...   

Every animal that your breeding pet gives you bundle, kennel or egg is not going to be a special animal with great traits ... and in that case birthing it and getting the haven points is not just a better way to go, it also preserves the market values.  would you not rather have less animals that sell for more than selling a bunch of your stuff cheap and than flood the market? Because a direct offspring can again pass the traits of the parents depending on what sort of animal it is and whether it came from a limited or special edition etc.  If you are being greedy and selling your direct offspring cheap ... well its not much different than selling a offspring with the hidden traits in view  ...    Sure you may give a friend a DOS or OS ( Direct Offspring)  to be nice and well share the wealth but selling 5 DOS at 1/3rd the value kills the market .... one bundle at a time.  It may not seem like much but get 20 breeders doing so and all of a sudden you have flood of traits and the people that make these breedable animals can only spend so much time on new traits and breeds. I have to thank Amaretto for being so on top with bringing us new breeds traits and coats in the first place. Mrs Ava, Ms Cheescake , and Mrs Boss Lady which are the faces we see  ...  as well the others behind the scenes doing the scripting and also the beta testers are all here for us and work hard every day just to keep the market going and to bring us new amazingly cool things.

       I know at this point it looks like I have went on about this for quite a bit but I have not even scratched the surface of this yet because I want to make sure to help and educate new and old breeders as well give ideas to help keep this great breed-able community going and not alienating new breeders.  If you are new in the community and need help with pricing I as well others will help all you need to do is ask.    I do not just talk to the community and breeders but also auctioneers and auction houses, ranches and the people that run the breedable pets companies too. If you do not want to send your breedable to get haven points and would rather keep it than put it on pet food or get a forever fold or perpetual puppy box for it ...  and if it is a special edition collectors later will pay more for these types of animals but again you must find the right markets for these buyers.   So well I have just touched on the tip of the iceberg here but this is only part one of the posts for the blog this month.  Please follow this blog and help me to help others, feel free message me and contact me in world, on Facebook in the Breedable's of second life group or
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As well post right here via comments on the blog posts and if you breed other animals than Amaretto's than I would love your feedback as well. If you have pets and breeding animal ranch auction house or company that makes them than I would like to trade links with you and I will give you support and we have more than just this blog as a way to get word out to patrons.

Petrades Marketplace for Amaretto Barnyard Birds, Amaretto Horses and K9's !

Well last post I was elaborating about market values of amaretto breedables on market prices etc ..  Well since this week I caught up with the owner creator of Petrades and asked him a few questions about the new marketplace for Amaretto Breedable Horses K-9's and Barnyard Birds. So for example you can look up market prices and buy birds via visiting links from the webpages of the Petrades site!  This is huge cause you can for example see what the markets average prices and save yourself many hours of searching sims. Yes searching sims can be very time consuming and you can get a good idea of prices so you do not over pay for the Amaretto Birds, Horses and K9's !  Just Visit the Petrades Marketplaces for each breedable ! To get a Kiosk for breedable animal you want just go to this Slurl to Petrades in-world.
 
   So here is my interview with the owner of Petrades Marketplace!
Bada Bigbear Jr : How long have you been in the breedables business?

Dackididi Miles: Just about 2 years. I've been in Second Life for about 9 years now, but the first time i heard about breedables, i just laughed about :) Second Life is more an API for me. I dont know much about it :-) Because of that, my experiences with breeding are low. I always love to say, i am the worst breeder in SL ;-) I just breed for fun because i have 2 daughters. They love to open bundles and ride the horses.

Bada Bigbear Jr : ( Grins )  That is so cool and the fact your children like to see these and have fun with dads work is so cool !

Bada Bigbear Jr : What gave you the idea to set up Petrades seeing the scripting alone was quite a bit of work?

 Dackididi Miles:   About 2 years ago i took notice about Amaretto horses because a breeder purchased a bot supported tool from me. I started to breed horses just to earn money. I wasted money with OSOS and DOS horses to get some horses with horns. From the first day i missed an online marketplace. It was so sad scanning all the ranches. I took notice about mySLhorses, but it was broken, slow and not focused to provide a marketplace. From that day i had a raw concept for Petrades, but this concept was without Kiosks. A year later I addicted a friend to breed horses. He is like me absolutely business focused. He also missed an online marketplace and i told him about my Idea. He liked that idea and while we talked about that, i had the idea with the Kiosks. From that minute i was on fire and I instantly started scripting it.

Bada Bigbear Jr :  ( Nods in Understanding) Yes its such a great idea and a marketplace was very much needed in the world of Second Life breedable pets!   The time it can save us alone is just the tip of the iceburg in the value your applications are providing all of the Amaretto Animal breeders.

Bada Bigbear Jr : Are you planning to expand to other pets besides Amarettos ?

  Dackididi Miles:  I spendet a lot of time to make the actual version of Petrades easy to releasing it with other pets. Some month ago i released it for K9 and Barnyard Birds. Actually i think about other breedables like ABC Horses, but there need to be discussed and figured out some things.

Bada Bigbear Jr : Which is a your favorite pet   Amaretto Horses / Barnyard Birds / or K-9's ?

Dackididi Miles:  The only pet i ever breed with are Amaretto Horses :) It was a little difficult for me to release Petrades for Barnyard Birds, because i did not know chickens can't become pregnant :-)

Bada Bigbear Jr :  ( Giggles and Laughs )  Yah the Tsickens only lays the eggs ! They are my favorites though !  So Many cool birds but the Doggies and the Ponies are great too !


Bada Bigbear Jr : Your Petrades applications and market place has revolutionized the Amaretto pet and animal business. Did you realize that your system would be a big part of setting the average prices lines of horses, k-9's and Barnayard birds when you first started building your system for the horses?


Dackididi Miles: That's what I hoped. I need to say, i really love the inworld trading with Breedables. In other business like clothes it's hard to sell inworld and most sales will be done on the SL Marketplace. I really loved to see all that inworld breedable malls and auction houses. It was always my goal not attacking that inworld business. I think Petrades is the perfect combination between searching online and buying offline. It brings visitors to the malls and auction houses. Petrades is working anywhere so ppl with small stores will also be found and getting teleports.

Bada Bigbear Jr :  ( Grins ear to ear) Yah you are right ! Petrades Marketplace helps us the breeders out in a huge way and is a great set of tools to help get more people to our stores, stalls, kennels and coops !! It is the perfect combo in providing knowledge and traffic !! 

Bada Bigbear Jr :  Seeing you have become a great way to quickly see the breed-ables buyers and sellers  market at a glance what are the plans for Petrades for the future ?


Dackididi Miles: I just can tell you at this time that we think about more Limited Edition Kiosks like the Xmas Santa Hat. This will bring a little income and support to Petrades. The main goal for the future is running Petrades as long as Amaretto breedables are available in SL :-)

 Bada Bigbear Jr :  (Smiles and Shakes Mr. Miles hand) Tanks you so much for the interview Mr Dackididi Miles !!  Your work is a great addition and assets to the Amaretto Breedables market ! I wants to thanks you for taking the time to talk with me today and we all look forward to seeing as it progresses in the future.

 ( Lil Bad looks around the store more before running off back to his parents Double D Daredevil Ranch Stores to take care of his pets and do his chores and plays with his sister Sophie and niece Geminis who is the ceo of Short Stacks Breedables!.  Please keep in mind that Lil Bad is a kid Avatar that loves his animals and tends to horde them all over the grid. Yes he does not spell correctly or always have the best English but than agains he is only a little kid. )  Here is a picture of one of his favorite Amaretto Barnyard Bird Roosters ! He named it George Verde the Pretty Birdy !  It is a White Faced Black Spanish Rooster with Verde (green) Eyes and a Malachite ( green) Beak!

George Verde the Barnyard Birdy ! White Faced Black Spanish, Verde Eye, Malachite Beak!

Ohh My New Second Life Amaretto Barnyard Birds Breeds and Traits !! K-9 and Horses and the market pricing!

Wow I have seen the birds been born with new breeds, Legs, Beaks and more!  Kicking off the new year with a bang Amaretto Breedables has started us off with great new traits for our animals meaning Chickens, Horses, and the Amaretto K-9 !  Of course every month there are new Crazed Coat animals on the second life metaverse grid. But the limited editions are kicking out everything from new breeds to many new traits for your animals. This brings up a question as many people wonder so what are the odds of getting a rare trait or breed when they are from limited edition animals or even from random special drops like the "Prayers for Paris" random drop or this months eyes of the world random drop which is Spain by the way.  And the last few months in order by month would be

1. January 2016  Flags of the world Spain Eye
2. December 2015 Flags of the world Brazil
3. November 2015 Flags of the world Australia Eye
4. October 2015 Netherlands   etc ... more info at Amaretto in one of the Eye Traits Wikis 

   So how how many of these are dropped compared to the elgible breeding animals be it barnyard birds, amaretto K-9's or amaretto horses.  Well obviously the more the elgible animals you have breeding the better chance you have for a random drop as these traits and or breeds whether or not its a saddle. Leg, Wing, Beak, Coat and yes even eyes on your breedable pets. As well if you get one of these new traits when they are rare how do you determine the rarity and worth ?  Well with breedables market value changes very quick and the rarity of the animals traits are what drives the market.  Currently there are a few ways to see this some more time consuming than others. First and fastest method would be Petrades Marketplace for Horses, Barnyard Birds, and Amaretto K-9's  search for the breeds and traits and look at average prices. Second off you could go search through hundreds of stalls , coops and kennels at one of the hundreds of breedable sims which could take days and hours. Than again you as well could attend auctions for a few months at one of the hundreds of auction houses, but the auctions sort of lead through with Petrades being a guide for the auctioneers and the market as well now at this point.  This all being said I will have to ponder this more and maybe later this week I will make another blog post after interviewing a few of the larger auction houses and the Petrades owner. To get to Petrades in second life just follow this link with your Second Life viewer Petrades Main Store to purchase Petrades platforms for your animals.

Amaretto Breedables Barnyard Birds ! Chickens, Roosters, Horses and Dogs !

  Well I get really busy at the Daredevil Ranch and our other ranches and lands but today is the last day of the year and its been a great year for amaretto breeds from the Barnyard Birds to the Horses and Amaretto K-9's !  Since I posted last Gemi and I have became Amaretto Auctioneers and we are having a blast at this between the thrill of our rare trait-ed animals to the fun of all the great friends we make with the other breeders of these wonderful animals ! Thanksgiving handed me a great new Barnyard special bird  !!! See the picture here of a very rare barnyard bird!

this is a Blood Orange California Crazed with the Thanksgiving 2015 beak and Legs with the Frost shade !!!  She is a favorite of our hens !   Yes that is me in the background !  But that is not all because these are great pets and barnyard animals seeing that they are only 11 prims and it only costs 108 lindens to feed one for a whole month !!!  She still will lay 9 more eggs before her time is over on the second life grid. As a good example most birds have 3 or 4 traits but there are also up to 8 traits you can get on a amaretto barnyard bird which is rare but very possible to accomplish with proper breeding and work!

   Here is and example of a double beak that I bought from another breeder friend to increase the traits of my own chicken and rooster herd.  He is a double beak and a clean bird with great genes and this can be added to other breeds to make a really special bird and maybe even a triple beak which is a high end super rare Rooster or Chicken  !!! 

the beak design is Tribal on and Onyx beak !   Its a Black Tailed Japanese Bantam with the Unhallowed eye which makes a very spooky looking Rooster ! 

    Last but not least I have been going back to raising the White Faced Black Spanish!   I love the looks of these birds also and I will continues to raise these along with many other breeds ! 

The rooster is a double Azurite meaning it has the azurite Beak and the Azurite legs !  This is one of the only ones that I have seen on the second life grid and I pulled it the other day from another double azurite of a different breed that I had introduced the mama hen to the other day. Well be sure to join our second life Facebook group for more info Second Life Breedable Pets, Auctions and spam !  Also our family Ranch page that has info on our stalls and places you can buy our rare and high traited Amaretto Breeds of Barnyard Birds, Amaretto Horses and Amaretto K-9's !