Boas aren't the easiest to breed... even though one or both are proven, that means nothing as far as breeding/producing this year or next.

Now, let's say they do breed for you now and produce early summer. You will be down $10k for the snakes, atleast $1k in caging, feeding, supplies, maintenance and more, and then an additional amount for baby racks/housing, unless you have all these items laying around and at little or no cost to you.

When the babies do come, let's go ahead and say you've had a wonderful litter or 10 live DH Sunglows and 10 live Sunglows, after the slugs and stills.

Honestly, here is what I think about price....

If you are Rich Ihle or Tom Burke, maybe $8-10k on Sunglows and $1500-$2000 on DH's. They will probably sell out before they are born.


If you are a more 'middle level' breeder, still popular, nice guy, but without your own 'special name variety (Lipsticks, Boaphile, etc.). They can probably sell for $5k for Sunglows and $1000 to $1250 for the DH's It will take substantially longer to sell them... perhaps a whole year or more.


If you are an unknown, or smaller breeder, or first timer, etc., you will be lucky (IMHO) if you can get $3500 for your sunglows and $750 for your DH's.. and you will likely have half the litter or more still in your posession within a years time.

With this last scenario, even though your litter would essentially be valued at approximately $40k or so, chances are it will take you more than a year to reap even half of that. Nowhere near as good as an investment as the first or even second scenario.


Now this is not written in stone, nor is it guaranteed.

This is what I can say from experience and from watching the market/industry for the last 10-15 years.

Just my $.02

take care, Bci Joe
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