Quote Originally Posted by andrewross8705 View Post
I know the title may be a bit misleading but I couldn't think of a better way to articulate what I was asking. I myself plan to breed hognoses starting next year because I find them absolutely fascinating with their personalities and the morphs are stunning. I'm not going in with the mindset that I'm going to be making thousands of dollars even though I have a great number of combos that could produce snows or supercondas. I actually don't see myself making a profit in the 1st season but MAYBE break even on what I've spent on the hogs, feeders, housing, etc and that's dependent on how many we decide to keep as hold backs.

We've talked about breeding ball pythons as well but the market is so saturated that we go back and forth over whether that would be a hobby that would be more cost and time consuming than what it would be worth. Ideally, everyone would like to be in the green, not the red but it's a hobby and we're looking forward to being able to say we produced this or that and share the final result with others while also teaching people.


What makes you continue to breed year after year regardless of whether you have a pair or a dozen pairs?
Thanks for starting this thread. Ever since getting back into the hobby I've always had breeding in the back of my mind. And it's funny that you mention breeding hognose and cite their fascinating behaviors and the oversaturation of BPs as your primary reasons for choosing to breed hognose. These are the exact two reasons that breeding hognose over BPs has been creeping into my head since adopting my first hognose recently.

If I were to breed eventually (still a few years out, if I decide to go that route) I would be doing it as a hobby and with no plans to eventually quit my job and breed for a living.

So that brings me to a question: As somebody who would be breeding for hobby and not planning to keep more than maybe a holdback or two, how does somebody go about selling off the babies? I would be prepared to house the babies until they sold, but wouldn't want to keep them all as forever pets and would want to sell most of them simply to make room and cover expenses. I personally would be leery of buying from a first time breeder with no reputation, so I would imagine it may take a while to sell the babies.

Again, thanks for starting this thread, I'm interested in seeing more replies.