The price tag I don't agree with and yet I do. Example for effort, time and money goes into dog breeding BUT yet dogs are a fraction of the cost of snakes.....Originally Posted by Monster Dodge
I can also see where people are coming from b/c the prices are set by the big breeders and the big breeders most of the time ONLY raise and sell snakes so now you have a factor of time and time = money.
Example:
(0.1 Lesser = $450) + (1.0 Pastel = $75) + ( Food for 2 years = $312) = $837
NOW 1 baby is worth $800-900 dollars (Pastel Lesser) So if you hit simple odds you have made back your investment. Soo in my eyes this is why I don't see why prices for any reptile are so high.
Then you have to factor in time....
Now for the time = money part:
(Initial Investment = $837) + {[(2 hours a week, each snake, cleaning....$7.25 x 4 = $29) + (0.5 hours a week, each snake, feeding....$7.25 x 1 = $7.25)] x (104 weeks to get to size + 26 weeks for breeding, etc = 130) = 4,712.50} = 5,549.50
That is now time plus investment plus feeding of ONLY 2 snakes and to make it pretty add some more money to housing, incubator, etc. so $6,000.00 is a round about # to see how much money really goes into it.
Just as an example. So really a double recessive animal such as a Ghost or Snow is worth about $15K to produce. Now other things take MORE time and MORE effort to produce but aren't even close to the cost but it's not really any of that, it's more what are people going to pay the price for the animal. Those morphs sell, but to who I would also like to know.
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