The prices at the moment are ridiculous but if you had a litter of pups at the mo and everyone else was selling for 2-3 grand would you sell for 500 quid? Some twat would buy them to sell on.
You see some really cheap statics for sale, some of the sites near here make you replace your van after so many years so the old ones are practically given away.
It definitely knocks them leaving their litter, nothing worse than picking up some tame kits and getting home after a drive with a box of screaming lunging b*****ds. I just put the box in the hutch and let them settle down for a bit.
Harlequin cross, I've got her harlequin mother here too who bred my marked linnet mules last year. I'm trying to get a round of goldie mules out of them both quick to see if they throw pied to them.
3 nests of polls all gone, one fed for a week then stopped, one chewed the beaks and limbs off all her chicks and another ate her eggs 3 days before hatching. Bloody things.
I'll be happy to get a few more mules out then I'm finished.