You guys also missed something in my post.....that is in CANADIAN
funds.....Plus I live
a good 4 hours from a major city (in my case Calgary...though I live in
British Columbia)
And the cheapest we get our aquariums for here is around 70 dollars (that is
just the aquarium)
Plus the only way we can get aspen is in small packages (which adds up)my
quick quench water bottle
(one of them) cost about 15 dollars just for the one! (after taxes) if I
figured out what I spend
in american then it would be a lower number (in may we exchanged 300
american and got 450 canadian)
I guess I should have made that more clear......
Heather
At 250 cages, monthly bills ran thus:
$104 for 200# custom mix feed
$10 for fresh food (carrots, apples, etc-scratch-n-dent-specials)
$10 for milkbones by jumbo boxes for hamsters [2 boxes of 'large']
$15 for six waterbottles, others dying of old age and
missing o-rings and getting gnawed
$10 for vet bill misc and bandaid bill
$15 for misc housing (buying a sheet of expanded metal
mesh or another leaker at a rummage sale, etc)
$6 bedding, two bales
$5 cleaning supplies (bleach, soap, odoban, etc)
$5 for gas
$10 for utilities (water, electricity)
$3 ads
So you see, that if you're spending more than roughly
a buck a cage a month....you're buying lots of extras.
I figure that a cage holds two gerbils....and between
one and two hamsters depending on the breed.
Now mind you I figure a setup is around $30 each...and
I didn't figure those in because I no longer have that many
cages/tanks/setups in service. I scrounged a lot (got
the tanks free for the hauling, got a lot of the metal mesh
on clearance and throwaways, etc)
Things like gnaw wood, I have lots from neighbors and
my hubby's wood projects (apple tree trimmings and
white pine chunks) TP rolls, I had 'the network' that
saved them for me.
[and the figures are for those of you who wondered how
much it really costs...other than floor space and time, to
run a large rodentry...once you have things set up it isn't
that much to maintain other than time]
Deb
Rebel's Rodent Ranch
