10 x pinkies @ $13.50. 15 hatchies will eat approx. 6 before sold off yeah?
So thats $1.35 x 6 for one hatchie equaling $8.10 per hatchie before selling. Sell that hatchie (we'll use coastals for example) at $75 (give or take a bit)
$8.10 x 15 hatchies = $121
All 15 hatchies sell at $75 so thats $1125. Minus the price of the pinkies @ $121 and you have a total of $1004.
Incubation electricity and hatchie tub heat mat electricity costs would be about $250 a quarter im guessing?
It would take about 3-6 weeks to get the hatchies to eat their 6 pinkies.
Advertising would cost nothing, as its done on here or other herp sites that are allowed to have herps sold, or about $15 from memory to advertise elsewhere.
Profit minus electricity would come down to about $754 dollars. Then minus the $15 for advertising elsewhere. So you are looking in this hypothetical example a overall profit of $739.
So thats not bad if you ask me.
Give or take a few extra feeds here whilst sellers are waiting for potiential customers to pay up and to me that looks like a pretty good outlay for a clutch of run of the mill coastals.
And you cant tell me it would be much different for most other breeds?
If you want to add in hatchie tubs and heat mat costs ect, then that would change dramatically for a breeders first clutch, but after that when the tubs are used for future clutches they would have paid for themselves and your profits would only go up.
Have i missed something in my analogy?
So you cant honestly tell me that its a financial strain on you when you can sell off 15 hatchies a couple of times a year??
Well, thats how i see it anyway.
Cheers,
Sherm.