stormie Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Breed: Kelpie 16kgAGE: 9 Food: turkey necks. app $5.00pm Mince chicken or beef $3.00pw vegies, rice or pasta $3.00pw Treats $ 2.00pw. Total: $13.00pw. thats not counting the elect for the cooking. Can I ask, where do you get your turkey necks from? Orbit's turn! (this is just his food, not including supplements/medication) Breed: Great Dane Age: 2 1/2 Weight: 60kg (bit on the 'Orbese' side so aiming for about 57!!) Food: Raw Daily: about 500g minced turkey meat and 500g-1kg of either lamb flaps, roo tails, turkey wings/necks. I buy in bulk and usually spend around $200 each time, which seems to last about 6 weeks. So about $4-5 per day. Not bad for a giant breed!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spot. Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Breed: Dalmatian Age: 2 Weight: 25kg Food: Raw Daily: 1 chicken frame and a couple of chicken feet. Cost: Probably $1.20ish a day. She gets bones a few times a week, so another $4 a week added onto that - $12.40/week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoemonster Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Barf mix, and chicken carcass or bones every 3rd day or so, so about $4 a day for both my 4 year old staffords, one weighs 16kg and one weighs 19kg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vehs Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 (edited) hrm... did the math and D (7yr GSD, 45kg) is about $3-$4 a day...... but why am I always poor? oh well, good to see he isn't really costing me an arm and a leg, I'd hate to go out the back and shoot him Edited January 11, 2010 by Vehs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Fox Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Hmm, I buy everything in bulk so it's a bit hard to work out. I might spend $40 on mince one week then $20 on chicken frames the next then nothing for a month and so on. I would say that for a 39-40kg Ridgeback it is costing me around $20 a week. I'll give it a shot and see if I can work it out... He has: Breakfast: 400-500g RMB's, either chicken frames or Roo =around 75c per day Dinner: 250g roo mince -$3 per kilo so =around 75c per day + vegie slops (minced fruit/veg, garlic, kelp, parsely, eggs, omaga blend oil) - cost me around $30 to make up approx 2 months worth so =50c per day + natural yogurt -$4 per week =60c per day +either Chicken necks ($2-3 per pack, enough for a week), sardines ($2 for 3 cans, does us for 2 weeks) or offal (around $3 for a pack of whatever is on offer and this would do us for 2 weeks -I bag it up and freeze) -$7 per week = $1 per day Supplements- probably averages out to $5 per week =70c per day So lets see... that around $4.50 per day/$30 per week More than I thought! But then I spoil him and could probably do it for a lot less And to be honest, by buying in bulk I dont really notice it at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetty Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 (edited) Breed: Fox Terrier cross weighs 10.4kg Age: nearlly one year Food: dry biscuits (purina) & either chicken frames or chicken necks. Cost: $50 for approx three months worth of dry food so around $5 a week. & $3-4 max a week on chicken. Edited January 13, 2010 by jettyjet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tilly Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 2 GSD .... one 60kg and the other about 43kg. They are fed raw and cost about $7 or $8 per day for everything (meals, supplements, treats). So that is about $50 per week (give or take a little). I am sure it is the rabbits at $5 each or the fish/turkey necks that tend to push up the price a bit. Chicken necks are only about $2 per day but they don't get them every day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smooch Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Stormie - I get the turkey necks atm at coles or woolies supermarket, bit expensive at $4.00kg, I was getting them at a produce store in bulk for $2.80 but they closed up so I am looking for another supplier. i only give smooch half a turkey neck, he won't eat until he has had the turkey neck and I found the chicken neck he was swallowing nearly whole and than he would bring it back up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemelo Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I honestly wouldn't have a clue.. I buy everything in bulk for our four, chicken mince is $1 per kg, beef is about $3.50 per kg, my eggs are free, chicken frames are 90cents a kg.. I buy royal canin in bulk for all four too.. last probably 3 months.. So to feed: Mini foxie chihuahua cross, 8 years old, 6kg Pug, 2 years old, 9.5kg Australian shepherd, 11 months old, 25kg Australian shepherd, 3.5 months old, 7kg About $20 a week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nannas Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I'd be around the $100 a week but I have 3 dogs. The all have a mix of meaty bone offcuts (smaller bones and more meat) and chicken neck/wings/frames (depends on whats on special) each day and raw of a night. (mainly mince mix with some rice, vegie, egg, etc) A couple of times a week they get huge bones, cut in half. (when one is dead we chuck it out and give them another) They usually have dry biscuits laying about as a snack but rarely eat them. (really a waste of money) The pit needs supplements but I cannot be bothered adding it up then dividing..LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSoSwift Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 (edited) Hmm I have Stafford - 12 1/2 Whippet - 2 Whippet - 10mths Dry food - $13/wk Sardines/cottage cheese/yoghurt/barf patties/chicken mince/tinned food(Stafford) - around $15/wk ?? Beef and lamb bones - nothing, home grown Chicken carcasses occassionally. I am not 100% sure as I buy dry food cheaper when I can and have a little stock pile going, other bits and bobbs when I am shopping, but no set amounts each week. All I know is it is MUCH cheaper to feed 2 Whippets and A Stafford compared to 2 Dobes and a Stafford! Around 7 cups of food per day compared to 16! And the food is nothing compared to the amount of Medication the Stafford goes through! I try no to think about that as it is quite expensive! Edited January 12, 2010 by Rommi n Lewis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~*Shell*~ Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 Breed: Siberian Husky Age: 5 Dry food: Artemis grain free - healthy weight management. Cost per bag: $110 Lasts for: about 4 months Total cost per week: $6.40 Total cost per day: about $0.92 Zero also has other things in his diet like sardines ($2 for three tins - he gets a tin every second day), RMBs (usually free with our meat or a couple of dollars for a bag of 5-10 bones) or he gets a chicken carcass ($2 for 5 frames) or chicken wing ($5 for 2.5 kilos). Total cost to feed Zero for a week: about $11. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Monster Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 He went off that (just as he did the Eagle Pack and also the whole raw foods that he was fed before that) and he is now on BARF Rabbit. He goes on and off things like chicken wings. Won't touch lamb shanks or lamb necks. Blah blah blah. Turns his nose up at kangaroo mince. BARF Rabbit was supposed to be only a PART of his diet, but it became the only thing he would eat. He loves sardines. I feed him those, but I use them as a form of encouragement to eat his BARF, on those days when he will eat next to nothing. I think my dog was born with a silver spoon. Not just yours... Bakari is fussy as too! Wouldn't eat Orijen, went off eagle pack, wouldn't touch hills so tried raw wont touch kangaroo, can't eat beef bones (they make him vomit) lamb bones do too but he wouldn't eat them anyway, will only eat a few sardines. I get the premade barf rolls $3.60/kg & chicken frames 5 for $1 1 x 7 year old female desexed Ridgeback approx 40kg 1 x 2.5 year old male entire Ridgeback approx 60kg Between the two of them: 1kg barf mince, 5 chicken frames, tin of tuna or 2 x tins of sardines per day so about $6.50/day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Helena Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 I've found that too much raw meat (especially lamb) has some dire "digestive consequences" the next day for Bonnie too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anniek Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 2 greyhounds - 25 kg female - 36 kg male raw diet approx $1 a day each Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paulp Posted January 12, 2010 Share Posted January 12, 2010 My 2 labradors (one 32kgs, the other 24kgs) go through an 18kg bag of active advance in about 45 days and 2-3 chuck bones a week so that averages out to about $3-3.50 a day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odin-Genie Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 (edited) Breed: Norwegian Elkhound Age: 2.3 Dry food: Artemis Maximal (grain free) Cost per bag (13 kg): $127 (inclusive of postage) Lasts for: about 40 days Other: BARF patties, fruits, raw bones. Total cost per week: $35 Total cost per day: about $6 Breed: Golden Retriever Age: 2 Dry food: Artemis Maximal (grain free) Cost per bag (13 kg): $127 (inclusive of postage) Lasts for: about 40 days Other: BARF patties, fruits, raw bones. Total cost per week: $35 Total cost per day: about $6 So, for both of them, it's about $12 a day. Edited January 13, 2010 by Odin-Genie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivergem Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 Breed(s): Labrador Age: 5 years / 28kg Food: was feeding eagle pack with rmb's but now more just on the rmb diet so anything chicken, lamb, kangaroo, turkey, beef, sardines/salmon once a week, eggs a couple times a week and offal a couple times a week. Supplement with O3's, yoghurt, ACV. Bought in bulk for the first time on monday so still working it out... Cost: Probably around $2 - $4 a day depending on what she gets so around $20 weekly Breed(s): Labrador Age: 2 years and a bit / 32kg Food: same as above; mostly feed once a day, sometimes twice, yesterday it was kangaroo mince, today kangaroo tail, tomorrow mince & offal Cost: Approx $3 - $5 a day so $30 weekly Breed(s): Cocker Spaniel Age: 7 months / 10kg ish Food: same as above Cost: $1 - $3 a day so $15 a week GRAND TOTAL: $65 give or take weekly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruffles Posted January 13, 2010 Share Posted January 13, 2010 (edited) I feed 2 X Amstaffs, 1 x Neo cross and 2 x Large breed cats for $1.42 each per day all on Prey model eta: Thats averaged across all 5 animals, not $/kg or anything like that Edited January 13, 2010 by Ruffles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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