Should you really breed? Are you sure it is a good idea?

[Godzilla78]

I think this is an excellent post! Excellent! Also followed up by Taylor and you have the perfect posts!

I agree with both of you. I thought about breeding however, if I do get more snakes it will be rescues only. And I would get attached to babies and would have to do home checks on the people that I would give them too lol. So it's a nope to breeding for me. Lol

Exactly, you analyzed the possible outcomes and made a decision.

This thread was as much aimed at myself as to anyone else considering breeding!!!

Me, I am a business person who happens to have an extreme passion for ball pythons, and it has taken me 3 years, but I am launching a business plan and doing business research, because I want to make a profit, and making a profit in the reptile breeding business is apparently an exception. Does making a profit mean I am greedy pig? No, it means I am well aware of how challenging it is to make money as an entrepreneur in ANY business, and I love the challenge and I love the animals. I have done a lot analysis on investing, marketing, return on investment, depreciation, accounting, genetics, marketing, supply and demand, marketing, costs of doing business (overhead), marketing, and the very REAL possibility that I will lose money or break even and end up with a lot of snakes and snake husbandry work. (which I am prepared for the worst, though I hope for the best.)