Hmmm...good question....
Last year I kept track of every dime for the year....Rats and Mice, supplies, show fees and expenses, racks, ads, you name it I logged it. Every snake I bought and sold and produced...
I hatched out 70 Ball Pythons and 29 Red Tails...kept 14 babies out of what I produced...higher end stuff...2.4 Dbl het Albino/Pieds 2.2 Dbl het Axa/Pieds, Spider Het Pied, Pastave female, Het Albino female and a Lemon Blast male.
Spent $17,150.00 buying snakes and had $5,400.00 of babies from 2011 that I sold in 2012 and by the time I closed the books for 2011 I had lost $11,254.00. Now if I would have sold what I kept I would have came out ahead but what fun is that.
Travis
Lair of Dragons