a break down of cost.

I got asked the other day how much have i spent on my hedgehogs all together....well i thought id share:

6 LX48 vivs: £45 each £270
1 VX48 viv: £65
10 sets of liner and pouch: £20 each £200
4 tunnels: £6 each £24

endless amounts of bowls: £2.50 each £30 (at a guess)
7 wheels: £25 each (average) £175
3 plastic huts: £3.50 each £10.50
2 large castles: £7 each £14

6 hedgehogs...£150 each (average) 1 was bred by myself: free. £900

2 double thermostats: £50 each £100
2 single £25 £50
6 small heatmats £7 each £42
2 medium heat mats £14 each £28

total cost: £2000 (rounded up)

and i bet its more than that, as i have toys, stickers for the vivs, playpen, the whole hog room itself, name plaques, food, radiators.

i dont think i want to do mine lol ..

That's a good show of the costs involved Tayer.

I'm the same Lou, with my hoggie rescue room! It's all added up to quite a bit!

xoxox

no you and helen would probably be double, triple that...
well singularly i worked it out at this...

but id say its about £300 per hog with set up and enrichment etc..
£300 x 7 = £2100

Like Mel said we have the expense of the hog house , will work it out .. OMG i might be in for a shock but it will show im not in it for the money lol x

Good post

I would hate to think but if I were to start at the beginning when I had zoozones, moved on to crappy built stacking units that were binned, then on to vivs, liners, wheels, bowls, toys, heaters bet mine is nearer £ 5000 and that is buying lots of items at trade x

i would of thought youd spent more than that helen...!

the question came about when i said i was having a new baby hog...they know how much 1 hog costs, so they wondered how much would i of spent for the lot.... ! i said too much for you to handle knowing...lmao

Might be Tayer - I honestly haven't totted it up over the years, it is something that I have just done - my bigger vivs from the shop were the most expensive as we had them custom built - each one of those was £ 100 - have seven now and the two four footers which were £ 130, then the viv stack my dad built so over £ 1000.00 on what I have now - wasted about £ 200.00 on crappy stacking things that the backs came out of - zoozones still have 2 and gave some away - shall stop now or I will go into melt down I think!

lmao....

Oh i wouldnt .. i didnt have to many crappy vivs ha ha ... before .. Helen got me my vivs ... it is a very good post ..as it shows that there is far more money going on housing and up keep and vet bills then from breeding .x

I started and thought i better stop as Ed is sitting next to me ...x

Know that feeling - I edited my Vet bills before telling Nigel x

He is asking me lots of questions now ..thinking quick on my feet here ha ha x

Haha x gav spent his money on my room and bought me 2 of the hogs...x

he knows the cost of the hog house and all the linings and air con and heaters ... but nothing else .. lol ..

Best Way but to be fair, Nigel has his seahorse "breeding facility" as it is now known, which cost more to set up and costs more to run than my hoggies - fair is fair. x

Yes fair is fair ...But cant tell Ed that or he will want the same amount as i have had lmao .. so not going to tell him that .x

wow you dont realise how much do you?! xx

I just don't tell my husband and try to write as much as possible off on the taxes as I can but still have been in the red for two years. I hope to make some profit next year but who am I kidding, they are spoiled rotten.

And that is why we will never be rich!! Everything we get is ploughed back into our hoggies xx

I agree I had 1hog in my last litter which I sold for £150, but then I bought £220 of items off Helen...same with the litter before I invested in all double thermostats and heat mats...x

But Tayer, that is what a decent breeder does - shows it is not all about making money x

Its deffo not about making money ... not for all the members on here ... it would take me years to make back what i have spent ....
I am happy with my odd litter here and there .x

It shows what we do for our animals!!
Good posTayer -shows what really is involved in owning a hog.

missed this aswell really good post.they arent cheap pets to keep and set up for.x