"Look at it this way; lets say you don't want to spend every waking moment cleaning, feeding and watering snakes, so you decide to produce 40 clutches of 6 average eggs per clutch; that's 240 eggs of mojaves or spiders (~$600 morphs) half of your eggs (120) will be worth $600 each ($72000)and the other half will be worth roughly $40 on average per hatchling (assuming you keep nothing) ($4800). That's close to $80000 minus expenses for paper towels, rats, heating, racks, and start-up, you'll clear $65000 to $70000/annum. Is that enough for you to stay home? You'll certainly have enough time to still work with that limited number of snakes..."

That was posted by someone earlier in this thread.


I've also gone over the math about a thousand times. I guess the biggest question in MY mind has always been, "can I actually sell 240 snakes a year at an average of $320?" That comes out to four or five snakes a week. I just don't know if that's a reasonable expectation.
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