How much money do you think people like RDR and BHB make a year?

[Peter Williams]

I was just listening to the RR with Chad Brown and when he said: "Lets say I produce 1000 babies this year, and sell em each for a couple hundred bucks, well guess what, I'm doing pretty good!" This got me thinking, obvious Brian produces over 1000 babies, and Ralph sure does a helluva lot too, and alot of them are worth ALOT more than a couple hundred bucks. So...how much are we talking a year here? Obviously they have to pay their staff, and sink thousands into new animals, but really, how much are we really talking about? 100,000? 200,000? 500,000? 1,000,000?! I think we have conclusive proof that this is the greatest job in the universe. Thats more than a freaking doctor or lawyer makes.

[starmom]

Yeah, that's a lot of money..
Oh wait: Building, staff, taxes, food, bedding, electricity, supplies, .....
Hmmm, guess it's not so simple as just counting what has hatched....

[hoax]

I hope they make gazillions of dollars because they seem like "normal" folks.

Every one talks about how cool they are...

But I have thought the same thing. I think BHB has said they produce up to 30,000 babies am I mistaken? Or does that include their height of the year including breeders hold backs babies and all?

If they produce 30,000 babies and sell each for $100 that is $3,000,000 just sayin....

[mainbutter]

3 million split between how many people? after costs of running the business?

I'm sure they are living more than comfortably, but it takes some serious work to become the best in any business.

And when you take care of that many animals for a living, you can't exactly go on vacations.

I'm jealous from a distance, but I think if I got a taste of how hard they work I wouldn't want to trade places with them!

[Patrick Long]

More so than the money that they MAKE........


...Imagine their OVERHEAD. So if the dollar amount of their overhead is extremely high, their income must be exponentially larger.

RDR wasnt lookin at a viper for nothin!

[rabernet]

More so than the money that they MAKE........


...Imagine their OVERHEAD. So if the dollar amount of their overhead is extremely high, their income must be exponentially larger.

RDR wasnt lookin at a viper for nothin!

RDR also owns his own construction business and his wife her own salon - so it's not just snakes that's making his income.

NERD lives very frugally - no fancy cars, high mortgage, it's not a koosh job - I've been behind the scenes twice at their facility - it's a LOT of sweat an a LOT of hard work while the economy tanks and the cost of living goes up. And a LOT of stress - seen it first hand.

[Wh00h0069]

A lot more than what I make!!

[dsirkle]

I've been to the BHB facility and with the size of the building that houses their operation, the heating (Michigan winter) and maintenance costs alone would be very significant, not to mention the weekly feeding bill, and payroll costs or the investment in thousands of high end rack systems. I would suspect that the big breeders did have a few years of big profits but that's in the past and I would imagine that they aren't living like the Clampetts in the current economy.

[Rakk101]

Think of the tough times that goes into a business like that and all business.

Say they produce 3000 babies but do not sell alot of them right away. That is alot of babies to keep feeding,cleaning, watering not only for the supplies but the manpower to do so. I am sure that insurance, loans, employee pay, taxes, utilities, not to mention having to stay on the cutting edge of the B.P. market to stay ahead of the small/medium size breeders take a pretty nice chunk out of the total also.

Not saying they do bad but I help run a construction businees that does around 10 million a year in business. You better believe that I do not see anywhere near that amount of money and would bet that alot of people that do not own a business make more than I do with half the stress.

[Custom Exotics]

I imagine the BHB's, NERD's, and the RDR's make alot of money selling the high end snakes they have, but the overhead they must have in order to run such a large business is extreme I am sure. We run a small business here, in a 3,000 square foot facility, with 3 employees, and the overhead on something like that is outrageous, you're doing good to make profit to go in the bank account the way things are now. You can take BHB, they have a 30000 square foot facility that the have to heat and pay electricity (don't even wanna see this bill) on, as well as 8 to 10 employees atleast, plus only God knows how many rats he has to purchase as week. But like I said I am sure they make alot of money selling the snakes, but when you turn around and pay the bills and the employees, I am sure the life doesn't seem luxurious.