OMG how cute is that! OMG. Congrats on those gorgeous pups.
The Cost of Raising A Litter
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I didn't include the blood draw and shipping costs because recently I have taken advantage of the free clinics offered by my local club. Nicky's blood draw cost was $5 and it was $75 for shipping but I did that 3 years ago so sort of just glossed over it.
I also didn't include semen collection fees and storage because I sort of just figure that those are mine to bear because it was something important for me. Collection fees for semen are $45 per breeding vial plus $60 a year for up to 30 vials.
I also don't tend to look at food expense though it is definately an added cost to feed another animal but I also figure if I don't keep a tally of the money I spend feeding my 2 Bengal foster cats, why add do it for the cost of one more dog. Which I guess all kind of goes to say that even when you look at this running tally, there is more money going out but I just don't tally it because I guess I consider those "responsible owner costs" instead of "responsible breeder costs".
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Base fees for ICSB (who are usually at dog shows) is a base of 295.00
http://www.ik9sb.com/Fees.aspAnd when speaking of costs, remember the "human" time… especially since 99% of us work regular jobs...
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To add to my breeding expenses today we went in for a surgical insemination.
Costs:
$45 for semen preparation
$450 for surgical implantation
$90 for weekend/holiday serviceTotal $585 and anyone who knows anything about these services will tell you that is dirt cheap especially in California!
Add that to the running total and we are up to $2546.48 and still no way to know if we will actually have any pups.
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Update on costs. Today's ultrasound $148.75. And great news, it looks like at least 3 pups and maybe 4.
So the new total is $2695.21
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This shows the effort, time and cost that SHOULD go into breeding a quality basenji.
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For anyone interested, here is a copy of the ultrasound.
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Awesome, Thank you Lisa.
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Cool, thanks for sharing.
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awwwwesome. thanks for sharing the baby photos!
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Congratulations! You were pretty excited before TC ever got there, so you must be REALLY excited now.
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Thanks for sharing all of this great information!
I am certainly grateful for breeders like you, Pat & Midge so that I can have my healthy perfect boy without having to do any of that work myself! I just don't know how you gals find the time!! :p -
We are very excited about our upcoming litter. Having a litter is a lot of work but there are also rewards including haveing a chance to get to know the new puppy owners.
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TC went in for a wellness check today. She needed to get her Heartworm prescription up to date, so the vet also did another ultrasound. The appointment added another $25 to the running total which now comes to $2720.21 and we got these really cool pics to show off. You can see spines on some of them now. I think one of the pics is actually a second one of the same puppy but my mom was a little unclear about the details.
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I love this tread. It is very informative, and a form of it should be turned into a sticky.
IVOSS: I think you may go over my original estimate of 3000 for a litter. Although I wouldn't include the fanconi test as part of it, because it is getting more common to have the test long before a possible breeding, and some breeders even are testing all the pups before selling them. (which is nice)
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By the time you add in just the Vet fees after whelping, lvoss will be way over $3000
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I also love this thread, very cool. Especially the baby pics. I know I"ll be thinking about more than just Halloween on Halloween.
Are the pups homes all in CA, southern or northern or both? Man if I still lived in the Inland Empire I would very feebly ask if I can come over and help socialize.But I'm lucky that I will get to do that here with yodeldog's litter
Can't wait for EVERYONE's puppy pictures! And it's going to be all around the same time too. Maybe we should make a special place for that on the forum… -
A new arrivals thread or topic heading would be cool!!
Good idea Mauigirl!!
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When it comes to homes, it sort of depends on what TC gives us but most of the litter will be in California, Southern and Northern. One may go to North Carolina.
We love having people come over to help socialize puppies. My mom is already asking people to come over and play with puppies when they are old enough. Me and my husband will be going down for both the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays so we can get in some time playing with the pups. Luckily on Thanksgiving weekend there is also some lure coursing and racing events down there so I can wear out my dogs and then head over for a puppy fix.
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One may go to North Carolina.
One of these days we're going to drive to the Carolinas for coursing. Would be cool to meet the people behind Suddanly Basenjis and Jokuba Basenjis. Then we might get to meet TC too
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I have a question here for those of you doing ultrasound and xrays on preggers moms. Are you doing it to: determine how many puppies, because you didn't think she was preggers, because you fear some crisis or ??????????
I can say only once has any animal (basenji) I owned been x-rayed and that was because of a singleton and we were not sure it was the only puppy. The bloodhounds different story because not being always the natural whelpers that B's are - it's important to know when you're done or to pinpoint some issues that might indicate C-section.
I have noted that vets are 'recommending' this now and trying to determine if it is for $ or if it has given some valid information?
