{"id":1980,"date":"2013-06-18T16:25:24","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T05:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/?p=1980"},"modified":"2013-06-19T08:35:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T22:05:45","slug":"i-havent-earned-any-money-from-breeding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/dog-breeding\/i-havent-earned-any-money-from-breeding\/","title":{"rendered":"I haven’t earned any money from breeding."},"content":{"rendered":"

Many readers know I am a breeder of Border Terriers. \u00a0It’s hard to believe, but I haven’t made any money from dog breeding. Here’s a detailed list of expenses and income that I’ve made from dog breeding, as was accurate at the end of my 2012 litter<\/a>. \u00a0I am posting this just to illustrate the price of ethical breeding from someone who partakes in a number of dog shows and have the best interests of the breed at heart.<\/p>\n

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Our first litter, born in 2010.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Breeding Related Expenses<\/strong><\/p>\n

Purchasing Clover: $1000<\/p>\n

Purchasing Chip: $7500<\/p>\n

Dog shows: $4765.50<\/p>\n

Dog memberships (to Dogs SA\/ANKC affiliated clubs): $954.75<\/p>\n

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First Litter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stud fee: My dog (no fee)<\/p>\n

Ultrasound: $55<\/p>\n

Puppy check up: $55<\/p>\n

Worming products: $43.45<\/p>\n

Clover check ups: $98+ $55<\/p>\n

Vaccinations and chips: $180<\/p>\n

Puppy hernia check up: $55<\/p>\n

Total expenses for first litter: $541.45<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Second litter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stud fee: $1000<\/p>\n

Progesterone tests to determine AI: $600<\/p>\n

Pre AI antibiotics: $22.15<\/p>\n

Semen storage and transport expenses: $740<\/p>\n

AI: $410<\/p>\n

Pregnancy x-rays: $172<\/p>\n

Progesterone tests to determine C-section: $171.24<\/p>\n

C-section: $784.30<\/p>\n

Total expenses for second litter:<\/strong>\u00a0$3899.69<\/p>\n

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Third litter<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stud fee: $800<\/p>\n

Ultrasound: $75<\/p>\n

Flight for bitch: $90<\/p>\n

Post birth vet check: $59<\/p>\n

Chips and vax: $360<\/p>\n

Worming suspension: $44<\/p>\n

Flea and worm treatment: $131.70<\/p>\n

Total expense for third litter: $1384<\/strong><\/p>\n

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TOTAL BREEDING EXPENSES:\u00a0$5825.14<\/p>\n

TOTAL OTHER EXPENSES:\u00a0$14,220.25<\/p>\n

TOTAL EXPENSES: $20,045.39<\/strong><\/p>\n

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INCOME:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Stud fees from Chip: $5600<\/p>\n

Puppies from first litter: $1500<\/p>\n

Puppies from second litter: $0<\/p>\n

Puppies from third litter: $7800<\/p>\n

TOTAL INCOME: $14,900<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Net position from first litter: $958.55<\/p>\n

Net position from second litter: -$3899.69<\/p>\n

Net position from third litter: $6416<\/p>\n

Net position from all litters: $3474.86<\/p>\n

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TOTAL EXPENSES: $20,045.39<\/strong><\/p>\n

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TOTAL LOSS: $5145.39<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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I don’t need a medal or praise. \u00a0I have beautiful dogs that I love in my house and life that I wouldn’t have without this breeding program, so I am in no means bitter about the financial loss I have made. \u00a0This is purely an illustrative post to attempt to demonstrate that my hobby is not profit-minded.<\/p>\n

There is a lot of reasons to breed a litter – money isn’t one of them.<\/p>\n

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Further reading:<\/em><\/p>\n

The Sin of Breeding Dogs<\/p>\n

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I have bred three litters of puppies, but I still haven’t made any money from breeding. See for yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[38,724,12,233,11,502,503,725,726],"class_list":["post-1980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-breeding","tag-breeding","tag-breeding-a-litter","tag-dog","tag-dog-breeding-2","tag-dogs","tag-litter","tag-litters","tag-money","tag-profit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1980"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3144,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1980\/revisions\/3144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leemakennels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}