So if you are looking at it like a business how much does an animal have to sell for in order to make a profit? If you are treating it like a business you have to have a super pastel male to make your pastel's and not a pastel male. Why? Because when you produce normals your profit margin drops dramatically. So let's say you have a super male and breed it to 5 females that lay eggs. If you get 6 eggs from each female and get a 50/50 split male/female, that's 15/15. If you sell them for $500 a pair that's $7500. subtract initial purchase price of super male of $5000 and raise up cost of 5 adult females at $150 per year at 3 years x 5 females that's $2250. Add that to the $5000 and you are at 7250. additional costs of 250 and you break even the first year producing offspring and that's at $500 a pair. If you have more females than males you make more money. If you make great looking pastels you make more money. Until ball pytons drop below $250/pr you can still make decent amounts of money on them if you lay out your breeding plans right.
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Josh & Krysty Hutto
J&K Reptiles

Various Ball Pythons:::

1.0 striped vanilla
1.2 Citrus Ghost and hets
1.2 Albino and hets
2.3 het Pied
1.1 Pastel (male has additional gene going on with him)
a bunch of female holdbacks and several rescue normal males

0.1 columbian boa, she's a feeding monster, controls my
over production of rats, lol
0.1 brazilian rainbow boa, another rat eating monster
1.1 corns


a BAD dog is MADE not bred, support the American Pit Bull Terrier as the greatest breed of dogs on Earth!!!!!

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