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    Re: Does breeding pay the bills?

    Quote Originally Posted by albertagirl View Post
    Wonderful information. I also have expensive tastes. LOL. Thank you so much for the responses, so much to think about! I am just starting with researching morphs, sale prices, what I personally find attractive, and learning everything I can. I'm thinking now, when buying new snakes, get things that are a little more expensive and have a few more genes/hets, just in case I ever decide to do something about this one day. But previously it was never my intention, so pretty well all of my snakes so far are just "pretty". My goal until now has been more of a "have one of everything" than anything else.

    The rodent idea just might be brilliant. I'm allergic to mice, but if I'm around other animals regularly, I do develop a tolerance to them. I wonder if the same would be true of rodents? I regularly break out in a rash after feeding my snakes. At first I thought I was allergic to my snakes and my heart almost broke. Rats are illegal in Alberta. We have to ship ours in, already frozen, from Saskatchewan, but there are ASF's here.
    Actually, Maybe I should look into this. I had thought about rabbits at one time as well, which are marketable as people food, snake food, and pets. I'm on an acreage with no neighbors, so the sky is kind of the limit, but I love the snakes, so working with them doesn't feel like work.

    Whether I'm dealing with snakes or rodents, I do need to look into shipping. I live just outside of a small town with no door to door delivery, and no FedEx or anything. I assume shipping anything fast would require an hour drive into the nearest city, every time. That would add a fair bit to shipping costs. Overall, the thing that I hadn't really thought of, but that's been mentioned a few times now is the idea of selling snakes to others who just aren't as interested in proper care as I'd like them to be. Selling snakes when I know that some of them will be mistreated is definitely difficult for me to process ethically. I will have to give that more thought.

    I really appreciate the time you all took to give your input.
    As far as shipping if you have a FedEx hub than you can ship and receive easily, the average cost a breeder charges is usually around $55, sometime it cost more but some of the cost you to absorb to offer a shipping cost to your customer that is not too high.

    As for selling it is not easy you have to have faith that people will take proper care of their animals, and be willing to turn down sales which I do all the time when something tells me that the potential customer will not do so or is not willing to listen (for example I had one wanting to house two 100 grams hatchling together in a 100 gallons tank, and when told it would not work was clearly not wanting to listen so I pass)

    Some breeders would not care I do and have quickly learn to weed out certain customers.
    Deborah Stewart


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