Cost of Breeding Snakes- Profit, Loss, Gross Pay. Reptile Breeder Series Episode #6 

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Haha. With all this said, it’s not hard to turn 100k in profit. Just need to sell more snakes. These same principals apply to almost any business whether it is a McDonald, a supermarket, or a real estate agent.

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@@JasonsExoticReptiles you're welcome buddy! Keep the awesome videos coming!!!! Stay safe.

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Technically yes, but only if you can sell them. Otherwise you will be sitting on a bunch of babies that are costing you money and quickly depreciating while trying to recoup your initial high dollar investment.

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It certainly can. The problem is that my roof isn’t big enough for the solar to power the room. It could certainly help.

I asked my accountant that last year and he said that it was not worth it unless I was going to start hiring employees. At that point, it may be worth the extra money. Otherwise, just file as a sole proprietorship doing business as (DBA).

@@JasonsExoticReptiles ok. thank you for taking the time to respond. 👍👍much appreciated.

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Definitely another cost to consider for sure! One that I certainly left out. I would typically throw that into the miscellaneous category. Stuff that just comes up throughout the year that is unavoidable

Yes and no. A lot of these cost still apply to ball pythons. They also have smaller clutches so either way it generally comes out to be a wash. Ball pythons can be much easier to breed though. You can also use a Male to multiple females

@@JasonsExoticReptiles I'm thinking of folks like Ozzy who's says he's now above $30k average clutch for ball pythons. The high clutch values seem much more attainable with the ball pythons due to the size of the market, the number of morphs, and the number of combos selling for $4k plus per animal. It's fairly common to hear of a ball python male being bred to 3-4 females at 1 year old, so you're getting immediate ROI, where as the Boas typically take more time to get to size. That and the animals are less than half the size in weight, smaller snake means smaller enclosure, which means less heat, less rent, smaller feeders, etc. Single male to multiple females is also huge. On a collection of 100 animals that means you can load up on females, and produce 10-30 more clutches per year with something like ball pythons because you can skew to females. One super high value male can be spread much farther through a collection in 1 season, so you're getting that return faster on those investment animals. Just a different market. I respect what you do with your animals, you produce some great snakes, I just couldn't do it with Boas, with all the stress, work and investment for the slim returns that the market currently offers.

Can’t disagree with a lot of that. Only problem is that it’s still amazingly hard selling ball pythons in the price range and the market is flooded. I was talking to a few of the larger breeders the other day and they are struggling hard. Stuff just isn’t selling like it used to. Because of all the factors you listed, everyone jumped in the game. You have tons of sellers but everyone is a seller waiting to seek before they can buy. So they each have pros and cons. With the high end market, the smaller breeders get the scraps of sales from the larger ones who consume the majority of the high end market.

I used to have hundreds on BPs. It’s not all bad but there are is a lot behind the curtain that people pushing the expensive animal and selling the dream approach don’t tell you. It’s not that it’s hard selling an expensive animal. It’s hard selling in a market with the same of thousands of breeders trying to do the same thing.

​@@JasonsExoticReptiles Agreed, the ball python market is hyper competitive. When COVID started it went nuts and it looked like everyone was having an easy time selling snakes, but it's definitely slowed down since then. I wonder if the prices will come back down to earth at some point, which will thin the number of breeders. Talk of recession on the horizon isn't good for the market, but we'll see if anything comes of it.

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Somewhat, but it’s the general process that needs to be scales for each person. I do about 100-150 trips to FedEx at about 70 miles round trip. Then shows, travel to pick up supplies, travel for feeders etc. it’s going to vary from person to person but it give the big picture.

Haha right! Much easier to just collect the check and not worry about all the stuff in the background!

That's right at least for me it's much better

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