Quote Originally Posted by billye1982 View Post
I really think with an investment of a few thousand dollars a person could make their money back in a year or two and here is how:
buy several normal females, breeding size can go for $100-$150
buy several low end dom/co-dom males, spider, pastel, ...
buy an albino male and 3-5 het females

you could be producing pastels, spiders, and any other dom male you have the first year, and maybe albinos and bees the second year. Could probably buy all of those snakes for under $2K, another $1K for racks, incubator, other equipment rats and anything else you need.

This wont make you rich, but with a small investment and growing slow and steady every year, I dont see why a person couldnt do this.
Thats pretty much what im doing currently. I only have three females right now and im definetly getting some more in the very near future. I have a definite outlet for all the babies that I hatch at a local reptile shop...For wholesale of course, witch is not a problem. I want to get nine more females to breed my males to. I currently have .1 normal .1 fire and .1 pinstripe and some basic co-dom males including a fire male (Black Eyed Lucy's *fingers crossed*) I would like for the rest of my females to preferably all be pastels. Everything I have now will be ready to breed next season. I build all my own rack systems, breed my own rats, and am pretty self sufficient so im sure ill at least break even, but geez....taking care of all these snakes when doing it right is alot of work...lol. Most big breeders have one day a week or whatever set aside for cleaning because they have so many animals...I clean when cleaning needs to be done. If a snake poops and pees in its tub everyday for three days in a row (doesn't usually happen) then I clean the tub every day three days in a row. But even though its alot of work I can't wait to produce my own BP's....that will be the pay off