Quote Originally Posted by drummerdude View Post
I see what you are saying, and I would sell a little below market for that reason. but if selling half of the babies from 5 clutches is only going to yield $4000, thats not really worth the initial investment + cost of heating and feeding. but if $20,000 is doable from a new breeder from half of 10 clutches, then its well worth it. that's what I am trying to figure out.
Figure 60% of the females will breed lay and hatch every year so 0.5 mean on average 3 of them are going to lay.. now an average of 6 eggs per female means 18 eggs with on average 4 being super pastel DH (remember those are still 1:4) the rest will be normal DH's and Pastel DH's.. So 4 super pastel's DH and say you get 2.2 I wouldn't be willing to pay more than 1200.00 for a male and 1500.00 right now for a female.. Cause for about that I can buy a clown female today or in three years a Pastel Clown or a Killer clown.. so if you sold everything.. Not including overhead you'd be lucky if you got perfect odds to clear 15000.00 .. But remember you might beat the odds..

would it be a cool long term project..sure.. Could you make that 20K just breeding 1.5 clowns together sure.. 5 clown females = 30 eggs all are clowns even at low ball in the crapper prices of 750.00-1000.00 for poor quality crap clowns that 22,500.00 and you don't have to worry about odds.