Hi friends,
I had a question for you guys and gals who have taken this leap before me. Will I lose money breeding ball pythons? I'm not planning on it being a main business, just a hobby to break even and maybe a little extra. Right now I have a male pastel, albino and piebald ready to breed. My het pied female may be ready next year and my pewter the year after that. I'm planning on adding a female ivory and maybe some hypo stuff. My concern is, in 15-20 yrs will people even be buying the morphs I have? Even pieds are getting cheaper already. Will I be able to make money selling babies from a few clutches a year? After putting food into the parents and babies? I'm not worried about my cost for the initial snakes because they are my pets as well. Just thinking, any thoughts welcome. I don't plan on getting rich. I just want to break even and enjoy the ride. Watch them develop and grow. And I won't sell a snake if I am not certain as much as I can be that they will have a proper home. I hope I don't keep them all...lol.