You mean that you can sell them critters for 1000 squids a pop?
Must dig over me compost heap and collect up them grass snakes that love to hibernate down at the bottom...
Few years ago, I would have stuff that was selling between 3k - 6k an animal, those days have gone now
Market has crashed considerably on the Royal Python front, I saw it coming and that was one of the reasons I decided to get out, plus the fact that I had achieved my goal of hitting a worlds first, named it the 'Corcra Ball' which will be my legacy when I'm gone, as everyone else who subsequently produces one has to call it the 'Corcra Ball" - stick it in Google & will come up with my details/website etc...
Too many people jumped on the bandwagon thinking they could make a quick buck, & big breeders in the US started holding high end males back (not selling them - males can breed within 12 months/females 3 - 4 years) so if no high end males available to add to your gene pool the females no good to you for 4 years, the cost of the males would go up, 2-3 years ago there were 4-5 gene males out there costing 25k plus, same snake today prob 1500.00, was just getting silly.
With all the animals - various sized racking for different sized snakes - incubators - thermostats - racks for breeding rats/mice in etc, at one point I probably had 70k+ sitting out the back, not that I had paid that for it, as breeders would trade animals for selective breeding, you would be very surprised the number of guys that have become very well off from breeding Royal Pythons - primarily in the US, as they were years ahead of UK with multi gene animals, so got out at the right time sold up/traded it all & downsized, only have about 20, 3 -4 gene animals left, which one of my mates keeps at his for joint breeding venture.
The worlds first unfortunately was a female, had it been a male & able to breed in a year after birth would have been worth 12-15k, but as a female only a third of that, their value goes up once they get to breeding weight & up futher once a proven egg layer, this female bred earlier this year and produced another 2 world firsts (different animals - different genes), but as said market is foooked now, so better off holding on to hatchlings, see if market turns around, it'll be a while but who knows.....
Maybe grass snakes culd be the next big thing, so get yer spade out & dig them up... need to go some to beat these though --
Caramel Pied Ball Pythons - even in todays deflated market still cost you 12 -14k a hatchling
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Better get yer paint pot out for those grass snakes CH..
