How much do your piggies cost you a month?

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Approximately for basics (food, bedding etc.) and then extras (treats, toys etc)? Not including initial expenses (accommodation, food bowls etc.) Just interested obviously there can always be unexpected costs i.e. vet fees.

Thanks :)
 
I hate to think and daren't add it up but as an estimate £20 sack of food (which lasts a month with 19 boys), veggies £40-50 a month but varies as I have an allotment so some months less, hay varies some months £6 some £20 depending on season and I like good quality but I also use this for my chinchillas as well. But I do have 19 guinea pigs and its a large amount but saying that I don't go out very often and then its only to gigs so they are my hobby :)
 
It's all relative to the amount of piggies and the average salary in your country. We also buy a lot of new stuff for them, so the average of what we spend depends on what we bought or not. Veggies are expensive here, for 2 pigs that costs 1/15 of an average salary in Belgium. I use dried low calcium vegs instead of pellets in their bowl, that costs about 1/3 of the amount we spend on veggies. Timothy and green oat hay is expensive, I would say that costs about 1/10 of an average salary a month here.
 
Costs me £15 for 2 bales of shavings which lasts me 6 weeks, £11 for a large bale of meadow hay every second month. A 20kg bag of dried food costs me £15 and that lasts me 3-4 months and roughly £5 a week on fresh fruit and veg every week - less if colleagues have got too much greenery on their allotments. I don't smoke or drink and I don't go out, my 2 rabbits and 3 guinea pigs are my hobby. ;)
 
I have 5 piggies & it costs me approx. £10 a week on veggies, £1 on hay, £1 on dried food & £3 on bedding making about £15 a week on essentials. Vets fees have been on the high side this year but still only about £20 a week on average. Then there's the odd treats or toys which probably only add another £1 a week. So mine are costing about me about £36 a week. A cheap price to pay for the pleasure in having these additions to the family.
 
I have five pigs and I spend £4 a month on hay (huge sack of nice quality stuff from farm shop). £8 on Burgess nuggets and £2 on a bag of Wagg to mix in with the girls food. A lot on veggies, maybe £40 a month. I use fleece for bedding and all my newspaper is free from trains andbbuses. Only other thing is a couple of bags of Fenugreek biscuits and other treats I see, that varies every month. Of course there's other stuff like Charlies medication and replacing all the syringes he eats...
 
Food and bedding, maybe about £30-£40 a month, difficult to judge as we all eat the veggies!

Vets bills... well I'm averaging £800 a month lately.... mallethead
 
£60-£80 veg for the 5 guinea pigs and rabbit

£18 nuggets they usually last couple of months so don't by every month

£10 shavings

£6 hay
 
thanks to everybody who replied so far :)
just wondering as have two piggies at the moment but am spending quite a bit on them and this is just basics which my parents aren't too pleased about! just interested how much other people pay in comparison :)
 
Well, hub and I spend about a 120 pound a month average per pig, not including vet visits and surgeries. I think your parents should not be worried yet. :)) Besides that, when people say to us that we spend too much on a pet that costs 5 pound, I ask them how much they cost at birth as humans and how much is spent on them meanwhile, that shuts them up 8)
 
I use about 5 a week on hay, 3 on dry food and about a quid on sawdust (get huge bail) their veg is about 10 a week (have 6) Gosh, that is scary. Dont tell hubby
 
For a bag of excel nuggets and a large pack of hay its just under £10 at this fabulous country store near me :)) I also incorporate all their veggies into the meals we eat so we can all share and it doesn't amount to any extra cost on the shopping bill. Theres obviously the extra electric costs of their weekly wash and the underfloor heating for when they're out in winter but I generally don't count that as theres no way of telling! ")
 
Never counted it actually. But I don't believe it's much. I use leftover vegetables and the food I buy doesn't cost much because I always use Voucherbox, they have a lot of voucher codes for online pet shops! For example zooplus, I've ordered there several times ;)
 
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Dry food: £25
Hay £100 but this includes a 50lb box of Orchard Grass, Alfalfa King timothy hay, Burns oat hay, Vitakraft hay with rose petals and meadow hay from a firned who works at a farm supply place
Veg: At least £40 a week
Heart meds for 7: £100 a month
Phoebe's Metacam: £9 a month ish
Glucosamine and Q10 about £15 every 3 months or so
 
Not much really as every day costs:
£8 on hay, £4 on dry food and veggies are scraps of ours really or anything thats reduced to 10p so very little additional cost there.
Bedding is fleece right now so c. £3.00 a month
 
I had my pet supplies delivered to work this week as the driver refused to deliver to a neighbour or leave it on my doorstep as the other drivers do. My work mates were shocked when they saw how much stuff I ordered for four weeks cage cleaning and 8 weeks food. Each order costs me about £80 but has hay, pellets and bedding for 4 or 5 weeks. Sometimes more.

My guys cost me about £20 a week not including veggies. They are on expensive bedding (back2nature) with vet bed on top but it's what works for us and it is better for one of my sneezy pigs that doesn't do well on other sorts of bedding. They are hay snobs as well so that's more expensive. They get the odd treat which isn't included in that £20. I have been lucky with vet bills and only have on average around £60-£90 a year, sometimes more if we are on extra dental checks for Hamish.

As far as I am concerned if I can afford to spoil them a bit and they are happy and healthy that's all that matters. I don't have kids so my furry gang are the dependants in our household (even though they run it!) and to be honest we pay more out in replacing stuff they've wrecked (like laptop chargers) than other stuff!
 
I've never really paid attention! I share the salad leaves, peppers and some other veg with them apart from corn on the cob ewwwww
 
£60 a month insurance - £30 a month insurances excess (that's the price per month averaged out across the year )£25 a month hay £40 a month nuggets with extra on top for veg - going to grow cucumbers and little gem lettuce myself next year.
 
Not sure of monthly cost but there was more veggies for our piggies in today's shopping trolley than for us :-o
 
This is for 23:
Hay - £5 for a bale. Generally lasts 3-4 weeks. I'd like to find a 'posh hay' that comes in affordable bulk as I only buy it for the buns (and give the pigs some occasionally).
Pellets - £36 every 6 weeks. (30kg.)
Bedding - £8 a month. One bale lasts just short of a month.
Veggies - £20/m? I'm not sure. Mum and dad get most of their veggies with the normal shop. I'll visit the greengrocers for free cauli leaves and stock up on whatever yummy things are on offer for them.

I do quite well really, considering the number of piggy lips that require food passing through them! I've noticed my outgoings increasing significantly... four rabbits easily cost me more per month than 23 guinea pigs - even when they share the shavings for their litter trays and their hay with the pigs!
 
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