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Ok before I ask, please don't give me the "you won't get rich breeding snakes", I know that.

So I am curious how much most of you breeders make in a year just off selling your snakes? I have just started to wonder what the average person/breeder makes off breeding snakes.
Thanks
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1.1 Motley het butter corns
0.1 Snow corn
0.1 Okeetee corn
1.0 Anery mutt corn
0.1 Stripe Ghost corn
0.1 Amelanistic corn het carmel
2.1 Colombian Redtails
1.0 Hypo Colombian redtail
1.0 Brazilian Rainbow Boa
1.0 Anery Kenyan sand boa
0.1 Normal Kenyan sand boa

The first year I had a pair of Boas, I bred them and produced 16 babies. I sold 10 of those babies for $35.00/each. $350.00!!! I was pumped! That was in 1986.
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""$350.00!!! I was pumped! That was in 1986.""

What about in 2006 ? lol
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I'm just the snake room janitor

You should change that to you won't get rich quick. I have been working and buliding my current collection for the past nine years I have been a fulltime reptile breeder for the last four years. The first two years I made in the low mid five figures and the last two I have made in the high five figures. The number one thing with making a living off of animals is that you make most of your money five-seven months of the year and you have to know how to make that money last. I went to school for biology first and got my BS in that! I went back to school a few years later and got an Associates degree in Business Management which has helped me out more in the biz than the Biology degree. The main rule of life applys to the snake biz as it does to everything. If you work hard enough and want it bad enough the good lord will take notice and meet you halfway. You can do anything if work hard for it. I have a house that is halfway paid off a new truck in the driveway and the ability to get my wife pretty much what she wants when she wants it. All from snakes!!!

Al Brown/Brown's Boas

And I am only 29years old so this was my chosen profession not something I fell into like all the old farts on here. No offense intended "OLD FARTS"!!!

Al Brown/Brown's Boas

Al, that is the single most impressive post I have read on this foum. Thank you for giving this "old Fart" aome direction in her life.
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Jason Gonzalez

as a very small time hobbiest... in 03 I made approx $950 from 2 litters. I wholesaled almost one of the entire litters, gave one away in a contest and gave one to a friend when he bought another one. I also spent money making a rack for the babies, buying the tubs, buying flexwat, thermostat and then feeding all those babies for about 3-6 months, they were not the easiest to sell since they were just normal poss hets in the one big litter which was why I ended up selling them cheaper to a local pet store out in vegas. In the end, I pretty much came out even, maybe a profit of $100.

I had big ideas about making it into a business back in the day with all these breeding ideas mapped out for the next 5 years, blah blah, I'm happy just doing it every once in a while now and using the funds to help pay for all the upkeep.
Just my experience.
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