Would you breed her

[nixer]

I think you are making my point for me. If you 10$ to 20% dollars a snake hardly makes it worth your time and effort, let alone the time and effort of your female. You are looking at making maybe 150% for the whole clutch. How much does it cost you to feed your female up before and after laying her clutch, plus starting the babies, hatchrite or whatever you use to incubate, electricity to run the incubator. Then all the leg work to broker the deal. At 150$ before you take out expenses I can't think of a solid reason to bread a female even a little too soon unless you are trying to prove her out and even then I would say wait.

no it does not prove your point. in a wholesale market due to the price of imports many many large pet stores will only pay the lowest they can. do i agree with it no, but when your running a resale business you must attempt to buy cheap and sell high inorder to turn a profit. i do not breed normals to make normals i breed for what i want/need first then breed for what i think the market will be. not many in this industry put a value on their time and unfortunately many more do not value all animals. when i choose to wholesale off normals its because i have to for one reason or another.

now lets just say you have a wholesaler who offers you 10$ a piece started
you could take that or you could not and feed them and house them till they sell, but now lets figure in just the feeding
40 cents for a mouse it would take 25 mice to eatup 10$
now thats just feeders.
so if you go 5 meals then wholesale your looking at 2$ in feeders then you would have 8$ for everything else.


currently at the shows around me i have seen many many normals for sale for 15-20$

at 15$ your looking at 37.5 feeders
so just feeders alone you would have to sell them within 37 weeks

either way your not making money, but if your trying to make money on normals of either sex its not going to happen. even if you raise up normal females the math does not work out. just with the price of feeders. now if you start factoring in codoms it pays some but not ALOT