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How much is your weekly feeding cost? POLL
I was just wondering what everyone's feeding cost is. Mine is about $50 a week for all my animals including my dogs.
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I figure $51-100. Hard to know for certain b/c I get frozen rabbits in bulk from a local meat rabbit breeder so every few months I'll drop about $300 just on those.
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I've never actually calculated it all until now, and it's just a ballpark guess. But between the snakes, ferrets, fish and cat. I'm guessing between $20-30 weekly.
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Re: How much is your weekly feeding cost? POLL
$86/week in animal feed.
Food for Rodents for snakes - $27/week
Food for Rodents for outdoor Ravens - $2/week
Food for Rabbits for meat - $18/week
Food for Chickens for eggs- $4/week
Food for Cats for furniture demolition - $32/week (wet food only - prescription diet for one)
Food for Fish for amusement - $1/week
Food for Roaches for amphibians - $2/week
Offsets:
Rodent waste is good Compost material
Ravens defend Chickens from Birds of Prey
Rabbits are low-calorie/high protein
Chickens give eggs I would buy anyway
Cats are pest control
Fish tank water is good for house plants
Roach waste is good for Compost
....Yes...its all justified.....
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$50 a bag of dog food that lasts about 3 weeks and about $75 for an order of rodents that last 4-5 months so maybe $20 a week I don't know. Snakes are super cheap to feed.
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2 dogs: $8/week (Source kibble)
2 cats: $12.50/week (Authority canned)
Bunny: less than $1/week. Hard to tell. It takes her at least 3-4 months to finish a huge bag of hay.
Hamster: less than 50 cents/week. Eats whole grain cereal, veggies, dog kibble, pasta and other foods that we already have.
Blue tongue skink: less than $1/week. Canned snails (120+) from Amazon, veggies, 1 tsp of grain free dog wet food per week, plenty of supplements left from last year. Basking bulbs are most costly as they keep burning out every few months or so. He eats only 2x a week so that saved a lot of expenses.
Bearded dragon: $5/week including $1.00 worth of crickets x20 from Underground. Same veggies that we, my skink and hamster eat. Bulbs and UVB bulbs are most costly.
Ball python: less than a $1/week for f/t rat pup.
Children's Python: less than 0.50/week for f/t pinkie mice.
Cal Kingsnake: less than $3/week for two f/t adult mice.
About $33/week to feed my zoo. That is not adding in costs of dehydrated pet treats, nylabones and toys for the dogs and cats. Or the cost of feeding raw chicken breasts/thighs, chicken gizzards and eggs now and then.
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Not a Ton for me, <$1 a Week for my 20gal Fishtank's flakefood and occasional bloodworms
>$1 a week for ball python, (f/t rat pups)
And probably less than >$1 a week for the dog since it takes him a while to down a $50 bag of dog food.
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Not a Ton for me, <$1 a Week for my 20gal Fishtank's flakefood and occasional bloodworms
>$1 a week for ball python, (f/t rat pups)
And probably less than >$1 a week for the dog since it takes him a while to down a $50 bag of dog food.
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Re: How much is your weekly feeding cost? POLL
I guess I spend about $22 a week on average to feed my critters. It costs roughly $12 a week to feed my cat and $20 bi-weekly to feed the (8) snakes since they usually eat every (14) days. That's (5) medium rats at $2.50 each, (2) large rats at $3 each, and (1) rat weaner at $1.50. I don't count the occasional chicks or mice they sometimes get as snacks between meals. :)
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Re: How much is your weekly feeding cost? POLL
Roughly ~$10-12/week. Colossal rats at $3.50, jumbos at $3, and Smalls about $1.65 and then $30 shipping divided between about 45 rodents per shipment adds about $.66 per feeder. Sometimes weekly feeding is a bit more or a bit less depending on whether or not Phyllis is pushing a ton or if any of the three are in shed. Would easily be more than twice that cost if I didn’t order frozen online. My only local pet shop sells large/jumbo rats for $9 and they’re not even that big! Robbery...
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Probably under six dollars a week for 5 male ball pythons.
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Guess, even with buying all my food from Pet shops, i'm not that bad off lol. I spend about $150 a month for 9 snakes and a beardie. So if you average that, its about $37 a week. If/when i actually do get a small chest freezer, can pretty much half that.
But then comes all the bottled water and substrate i go through which adds up too lol.
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Re: How much is your weekly feeding cost? POLL
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Originally Posted by Sauzo
Guess, even with buying all my food from Pet shops, i'm not that bad off lol. I spend about $150 a month for 9 snakes and a beardie. So if you average that, its about $37 a week. If/when i actually do get a small chest freezer, can pretty much half that.
But then comes all the bottled water and substrate i go through which adds up too lol.
Lmao you really need a chest freezer more than most of us! It would pay for itself in a month or two and then cut your feeder costs at least in half for the rest of its functioning life.
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Re: How much is your weekly feeding cost? POLL
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Originally Posted by jmcrook
Lmao you really need a chest freezer more than most of us! It would pay for itself in a month or two and then cut your feeder costs at least in half for the rest of its functioning life.
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Lol tell me about it but like i said, i always end up spending it on other things. I thought i was finally caught up....then i just ordered Pat his AP A10 cage. Now i need to call Bob and order a RHP. Then a guy on the GTP forums gave me a place that sells Manzanita reptile perches so i need to order a few of those. Then need to call Specialty Enclosures and order perch holders and elevated water bowl holder and also get some silk plants. Then I'll have the 18x18x18 cube vacant. And with that, you know dang well, I'll end up either getting a red neo GTP or maybe a ETB over a chest freezer...its like a never ending circle lol. I'm going to make an effort for the chest freezer but i usually cave when i see baby snakes lol.
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Re: How much is your weekly feeding cost? POLL
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Originally Posted by Sauzo
Lol tell me about it but like i said, i always end up spending it on other things. I thought i was finally caught up....then i just ordered Pat his AP A10 cage. Now i need to call Bob and order a RHP. Then a guy on the GTP forums gave me a place that sells Manzanita reptile perches so i need to order a few of those. Then need to call Specialty Enclosures and order perch holders and elevated water bowl holder and also get some silk plants. Then I'll have the 18x18x18 cube vacant. And with that, you know dang well, I'll end up either getting a red neo GTP or maybe a ETB over a chest freezer...its like a never ending circle lol. I'm going to make an effort for the chest freezer but i usually cave when i see baby snakes lol.
Just think of how many more snakes you could afford when you’re spending half as much on feeders... oh the possibilities... [emoji57]
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Re: How much is your weekly feeding cost? POLL
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Originally Posted by jmcrook
Just think of how many more snakes you could afford when you’re spending half as much on feeders... oh the possibilities... [emoji57]
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You know, i tell myself that every time and you know what...i end up coming home with a new snake or a new cage.....every time lol..
I'm almost willing to bet i will get a red neo gtp or an etb before i get that freezer.....as i am already looking at them on Fauna, Kingsnake and on the buy/sell gtp and etb pages on fb hahaha.
Been eyeballing some of Ian Bessels stuff at S&J reptiles.
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i have my own ~5-cu ft freezer for the rats so i buy in bulk. feeding my 7 snakes probably costs me ~$20/week, and my crested gecko is too new for me to be able to include here. :)
my beeps are young tho so this price has been slowly rising as they get bigger.
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Re: How much is your weekly feeding cost? POLL
I started to calculate it and have a mini panic attack lol Probably close to $100 a week for all of my animals, not including my semi feral children. Dogs, cat, frog, chickens, only 50ish snakes currently but that will go up a lot with babies hatching and I need to bump my burm up to eating rabbits. I also have some tropical plants that I spend way too much on their various soil conditioners to keep them going so I consider them more like pets. I do luck out a few times a year getting a couple hundred lab rats for free but that varies.
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To me a freezer is as essential as any other husbandry item, especially if you have more then a few animals. The savings can not be ignored. The only difference for me between having one twenty five years ago and now, is that my wife is finally willing to put people food in there with the snake food. I could not imagine feeding multiple animals, and paying pet store prices for food. I’m not even exaggerating, I literally feed five for the cost of one. In my area alone, a mouse is close to six dollars. Plus the time involved having to drive out to pick one up.
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My feeding cost vary on how many animals I have and that always vary but the cost per feeder is $0.50 or less per snake.
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Re: How much is your weekly feeding cost? POLL
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Originally Posted by Sonny1318
In my area alone, a mouse is close to six dollars. Plus the time involved having to drive out to pick one up.
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I can get a 3 pound rabbit or retired breeder female jumbo rat for six bucks.
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