Quote Originally Posted by blueapplepaste View Post
For example, lets say we assume lessers will eventually be $200 in two years. So you buy a lesser BEL male hatchling this year for $2k and a couple of proven females and a yearling female pastel.

In a year you breed him to two normal females and get 12 eggs from them both and produce 12 lessers. Maybe you can sell them each for $300. That's $3.6k gross, figure $500 for food, a $1k for your set up, and then $2.5k from the initial investment. So you're in the hole $400 at this point.

Well the following year you do a repeat breeding with the normals and then with the pastel who's now ready to go. Lets say you get another 12 eggs from the normals and 4 eggs from the pastel. So you produce 12 lessers and this year they're $200. And lets say you have perfect odds and get 2 lessers and 2 lesser pastels from the BEL to pastel breeding. You sell 14 lessers for $2.8k and one pastel lesser for $400 and hold back a lesser pastel. This year you grossed $3.2k. You were in the hole $400, and $500 for food again, so your net is $2.1k.

This is just an example, but if you plan ahead, have goals, and a long term plan in mind, then falling prices shouldn't be that big of a deal.
If it were only so simple...what about girls not ovulating, small clutched, bad odds, slugs, eggs dying...a lot of factors go into ball breeding....