Okie Hunter
UKC Forum Member
Registered: Jan 2012
Location: Mounds, Oklahoma
Posts: 1070 |
Cost of having a litter these days...
This litter will be the most cash I have put out for a litter in history. The last litter I raised here was fifteen years ago. This particular litter had a few expenses not associated with the average litter. Here is a break down of expenses.
Frozen semen purchase for Bruiser....................................$500
AI Surgery on Little Red....................................................$910
UKC Performance Program for Bruiser................................$300
UKC PerformanceNomination for pups................................$150
PKC Super Stakes Litter Nomination..................................$200
PKC Super Stakes Certification...$25 x 7 pups....................$175
PKC Litter Registration Fee................................................ $49
UKC Litter Registration Fee................................................ $45
TOTAL NOT COUNTING FEED, SHOTS, ETC.,.......................$2,329
It takes a lot of money to raise a good quality litter and I realize I have extra expenses by going the frozen semen route and the costs associated with that. Would I do it again... In a heartbeat! I have never raised a litter wondering what kind of monetary value I was going to get out of the pups. I've always bred because I had a plan for one of the pups from the cross. This cross isn't any different.
Many might wonder why I have listed a price for the Bruiser semen. Well, I had to buy it just like everyone else. I went through a divorce in '08 and the Bruiser semen was one of the "assets" my ex-wife asked for in the divorce. She owns the Bruiser semen and gets $750 per breeding, but because my kids are enjoying the sport with me, I was able to get a discount for $500. My lawyer who represented me said he had never heard of dog semen being a condition of a divorce decree in thirty-five years of handling these type of cases. Oh well... first time for everything.
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Freddy Wells
Plus Point English
Mounds, Oklahoma
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