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Lol I WOULD SAY...Wow, a pretty good breeding setup I would say holy crap
If you're in it just for the profit you won't be making any. Just my 2 cents...
If you're in it just for the profit you won't be making any. Just my 2 cents...
Breeding animals is not as profitable as one would think. People like to just think of the price tags you attach to the babies as being pure profit, and that is not the case. Raising and maintaining healthy breeding stock, much less acquiring it, is very expensive. And raising babies even more so. Someone posted a thread on how much it cost them to raise just a clutch or two of veileds and the costs were astonishing! If you go into something like this just hoping to get rich then you're not going to be properly investing into the health and lives of your breeding animals, which will get you fewer, or unhealthier, or undesirable offspring, and you're not going to see that happy price tag on them. If you want the money you're going to overbreeding your females to produce the most offspring as possible, which shortens her life and decreases her health, which in turn probably won't get you the healthiest babies. If you truly invest in your animals to maximize their health and genetics for the benefit of the animals you will get healthier offspring, but you're in it for the long term before you off set your costs and really start making profit. Plus you have to make a name and reputation for yourself before people readily accept your high price tag. The big chameleon breeders certainly didn't get there a year or two after starting breeding. They've been at it a long time.
What type of operation could $200,000 produce in a two years
Im thinking well past $1,000,000
I kind of missed that part originally! In 2 years you will have one or two clutches of hatchlings per pair if they're a species like veileds or panthers with 8-12 month incubation periods (assuming you nail all aspects of incubation and hatchling care on your first try and get good survival rates). So even if you assume that you sell off every single one of the offspring, which is a bit beyond ambitious as a start up, you're probably barely recouping the startup costs at that point. I do think you would be producing that much that quickly at all.
Man I wish I had 200k to spend on chameleons though!
Hah, Touché! And ditto!I wish I just had 200k ... lol
I wish I just had 200k ... lol
i wish i just had 200k ... Lol
if you took a minute and add up the amout of sires and x2 for females, break down a company and see...
its not far fetched, who would love to make $50g a year watching chameleons? making sure they are healthy and running a legit operation? bet almost everyone here.
just flying the idea around, look at FLchams, in his bio he states how long it took him.
as far as being up north, that really doesnt matter, start up costs would include your expenses for the time it takes those clutches to hatch. and if your going to expo's i can see selling alot of chameleons fast.
i mean i dropped about $4g last month on chams, having great sucess fast.
whats a few more digits? i make decent money right now, but who wants to work for the man when you can be him lol