Why it's hard starting a Reptile Breeding Business! Reptile Breeder Series Episode #2 

If I can just make it a weekend hobby as I've heard. If it can pay for itself I'll be happy. I've learned so much from you about boas and burms. I thank you for all the amazing information.

Man, what I love about your channel is just how incredibly humble and modest you are despite your high level of knowledge and expertise.

i have been really coming to my understanding on how passionate i am on snakes and other reptiles and wanting to start a business with, i can say this video really helps me understand and inform me about expectations of it !

Loving this series about breeding boa’s man keep doing everything you are doing man Jason you are awesome 👍👍👍 and I totally agree with you %100

I want to get it to where it pays for itself (buying food, racks, new smakes. ) I’d be happy at that level.

Always enjoy looking at your videos Jason because you keep it a thousand percent real. Keep up the fantastic work!!

Loving this series so far, brother. Like all your stuff, it’s informative, thought provoking, and very helpful.

Cool man ,,,, i do appreciate your works ,,, especially the education there of '

Thanks for the info Jason. Looking forward to welcoming my first danger noodle into my home. Best wishes to you all

This was a great video! Thanks! Both you and Kevin are my go-to sources and people I look up to in this hobby/industry! C&J Reptiles and Exotics

Hey jay! Huge fan of the channel. You give very useful and helpful information I appreciate it!

Thanks for the info Jason, and congratulations on fatherhood. I love all your vid and the fact that you’re my age lol. Working on starting my own business and literally at the starting point and I look to you, Brian, Kevin, and Dave for advice. Very informative vids man and the bald head works for you bro lol. God bless!!

Definitely looking forward to building my own breeding business, Kevin, Brian, you, Rico, and a few others inspired me to take my passion seriously. I've spent the last two years helping at other small shops, and learning everything I can about genetics. Thanks for the vid man dive head first into this series.

I love these types of series! I'm knee deep in my 1st season, 3 clutches hatched (25 babies), #4 in the incubator, and 5&6 coming in the next month! It is so exciting! I've wanted to do this for so long and finally just jumped in, I have big plans for some of the morphs I want to work with, but I started with some pretty basic morphs. I wanted to make sure that reality matched up with my dream, make sure this is something I "can" and "want" to do long term, and it seems to be. Also I want to build it, anything a make will go to adding my ideal morphs. I know I'm not going to get rich but want it to be a business. Now I just got to figure out how to really sell them, with the thousands of competing breeders that my real hurdle. I've got the morph market and plan to do shows so fingers crossed

Wow the bots in the comments!! Great video

Its def true man alot of reptiles is getting yourself out there and I think thats why YT does such a good job at that people see you, they see your animals, they can form a bit more a connection to a degree than just posting images online.

Great vid🙌🏾😎✨so glad I shopped with you.

All facts 🍜🤘🏾

Agree well said! it's also ALOT of work breeding your own feeders on top of it to. I also agree with you while your in the snake room you tend to block out the outside world as your passion kicks in working with them .

Good morning

Good on you brother

Hey J, would you consider making a video with first time snake holders. You can call it "Hold My Snake". Lol. Glad you're doing good.

Two ways to start a snake business one is snake removal business where you can remove wild snakes from other people's houses or property the second is captive breeding snakes to create new designer morphs from genetic meaning you can do alot more with snakes

When I try explaining the morphs to people I always say "its like an art form", definitely agree with the artistry comment

Ive been doing it for 11 years now and ive been just fine never had any major problems with keeping and breeding

Isn't snake breeding for the most part a passive income business? Doesn't require much work (at first) but as the business grows then you can hire a part time individual to take care of feeding, cleaning, temp checks, etc. Then you can jump in where needed such as marketing, distribution, or even starting another LLC. Thoughts?

For me, at least right now I would like to eventually give it a go but mostly as a way to further my involvement and interaction with these animals in the hobby as a whole My passion is less about any specific morph (although I know what I like for boa imperators for sure) Mostly it's to work with a few different species that I think make amazing pet snakes that I would love to share with others Boa imperators Dumerils boas And Sumatran short tail pythons It's been difficult to get a working pair of all 3. I unfortunately had to put down my favorite boa imperator who was going to be part of a potential future project. she had an eight-month battle with a nasty respiratory infection and finally just didn't have the energy to keep fighting. This I think unfortunately was a lesson in never obtaining animals from a reptile shop again. I don't necessarily blame the seller as she appeared to be in good health when I got her, but I think she had minor signs of the sickness that I just wasn't picking up. I like the guy who runs the shop, and as far as animals go he knows his stuff, but I think there is likely not an effective quarantine procedure Dumerils boas I've only ever had males. One of which was sold to me as a female. The animal was in the shed and skittish so I didn't give it a thorough enough inspection to blatantly realize it was a male. Ultimately my breeding age male has ended up with another breeder right across state lines. As such he's always going to make sure that I have a priority for acquiring some of his offspring if I choose Sumatrans however I've got a great pair. other than that I have a blood python that I have no plans for and an Argentine boa who is strictly a dream animal of mine to be a pet. But my first priority is really just dialing down my focus with this collection and keeping it manageable. At that point it will be years before I raise these animals to a healthy age in size to breed and then I can decide if I really want to do it at all Anyway that's my long post because I like to talk about all my snakes, I continue to appreciate your content my man! I think you do a lot of service to the hobby and you are the best source of information for anybody looking into keeping boas or Burmese pythons

I mean zero disrespect with this before I became disabled I owned and ran a successful design and remodel business since I have recovered I have started a reptile business and in my honest opinion the design and remodel business was way harder and what I mean harder it was in a completely different area code you can't even compare the two so in my opinion it's pretty darn easy to start a reptile business

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Are you talking about Joe from Walpole? Lol!

Gotta be in it with love for animals before you can make it a Business not have the mind set of making a lot of money..

Follow up going to go over the dark side? Passion isn't enough for long term success because you also have to be able to deal with culling. For disease, for incurable parasites, for birth defects, for adults you spent years bringing up that frequently throw sickly babies (don't be the bad breeder that just changes pairs, get it out of the line). I took every precaution imaginable, and my very first animal, crypto positive. Took a year and a half for her to test positive, but she was likely infected before I got her or right when I first got her due to a rodent shortage (had to get from a pet store). I had to choose, kill her and become a breeder in a few years, hide her and infect thousands of other animals, or keep her alive, give up breeding and focus on creating better medical care for all snakes. I chose the final one because she is my pet, and there are extra obligations there. If I had been doing this as a business, I would have had to have chosen the first, and she would be gone even though she has never been sick from the infection. I really think people should start as hobby and then transition to business if they find they can stomach it. I'm not completely out of the game though, I am very lucky to have friends that are new breeders, and I get to help them, even if my own animal is in permanent high level quarantine. The thing is, my friends encounter diseases like this way more frequently than anyone would care to admit, and we have to put the incurable cases down, there is no other way because the worst thing a breeder can do is spread a deadly disease and unfortunately, deadly diseases in reptiles can take a couple of years to kill. You can do everything right and in the blink of the eye, loose everything. Sure, careful handling of the animals minimizes the risk, but the risk is never 0.

Thanks jason.sincerely man.fr