While I sympathize with your position I respectfully disagree. If you were in the "big breeder" position and had the animals they have what would you do? Breed what made sense to breed at the time to produce animals you could sell and turn a profit from. What would you have them do, wait and hold off breeding until everyone else was ready to breed them as well? The reality is the big boys are in this not just as a hobby but as a means of making a living. Not saying they do not care for their animals or enjoy them any less than the hobyists. Just that when all is said and done, they need to sell enough to not only make expenses but to pay mortgages and put food on the table etc. clearly is a lot easier to do this by selling animals with price tags in excess of $1000.


I myself have many animals, most of which are currently selling for less than what I originally paid for them. That is the nature of the morph market. Eventually the morphs will be not that much more expensive than normals.



If you can pay off your breeder pair (1.1 animals) with one decent size litter you have done well.


If you really want to turn a relative profit, stick with a normal type snake where the value does not go down significantly from year to year. There you can get a 10x return on investment with a 20 baby litter.
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Thanks,


Dave Colling

www.rainbows-r-us-reptiles.com



0.1 Wife (WC and still very fiesty)
0.2 kids (CBB, a big part of our selective breeding program)

LOL, to many snakes to list, last count:
26.49 BRB
20.21 BCI
And those are only the breeders

lots.lots.lots feeder mice and rats

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