I'm interested in learning more about how the wholesale business works - or how the buying of large lots of neonate snakes works...and thought this forum would be a good place to start. There is plenty of discussion about new people getting in, about the contrast between big name breeders and new people unknowns...etc etc. But haven't seen much about selling to wholesalers. Just their ads once in a while.

I purchased my first boa about a year and a half ago. (I've been raising/selling/breeding/advertising exotic horses for over 10 years). So buying/selling animals is not new to me - but certain facets of this reptile business are still a mystery. I think you need to learn as much as you can about the industry as a whole in order to be successful.

A good point was made about how domestically-bred snakes enjoy a better chance at survival than wild-born snakes. But that still doesn't make it right to over-breed and flood the market with tons of un-wanted animals. In any animal breeding situation, there is always the question, are we producing too many?

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• wholesale buyers - snakehorse, Wed Jan 3 16:05:14 2007
• RE: wholesale buyers - Jeff Clark, Wed Jan 3 16:41:36 2007
• RE: wholesale buyers - tex959, Wed Jan 3 16:56:03 2007
• RE: wholesale buyers - snakehorse, Thu Jan 4 09:56:15 2007
• RE: wholesale buyers - Jeff Clark, Thu Jan 4 10:39:19 2007
• Reply is here.... - Jeff Clark, Thu Jan 4 11:08:57 2007