Does breeding pay the bills?

[Stewart_Reptiles]

The big names that have a good reputation and decades of experience and work behind them can afford to price their snakes higher. To sell your snakes, unless your snakes are exceptionally rare, you probably will have to keep it at or below the average market price just so you can get rid of your stock.

Not all true, quality will speak for itself, I do not price my animals below big breeder' s prices and I have been breeding and selling competing with the big breeders for over 10 years. People who drop their prices below market levels are impatient people that are already in upside down due to poor investment to start with, you need to be willing to hold on those animals and if you can't afford to do so, you should not produce them to start with. But I will agree with this it will be harder for anyone big or small, quality animal's or not to move animals if you do not have a reputation, even if you make a massive investment and get very high end animals, people will be very weary about send $1000 to someone they never heard of, and the solution is not dropping price it's working on that reputation which is part of treating this like a business.

Desperation in this industry is another big issue that lead to failure and collection sale.