You're right - that would be $14/rabbit! That's not actually the case though. In putting together that table I inadvertantly made the mistake of accounting for my frozen feeder costs for the year - which is not accurate for this purpose because my frozen feeder costs include feeders for all of my snakes (five snakes total). I should have gone through my records and picked out the cost for just his share of the feeders (which is probably about half of the total).



Thanks for picking up on that - I didn't want to mislead anyone on that, just on oversight on my behalf.



- Mark





>>Assuming that you feed your burm every two weeks and he eats everytime that you offer him food, and that you only feed him one rabbit at a time. I think you need to find a new supplier of rabbits. When you figure it out, it is about $14 per rabbit. That is crazy!!!!! I was quite upset when I had to pay $7 per rabbit for anything up to 15lbs.

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>>I do agree with you on one thing though, burms are VERY expensive. It is hard to believe that a 2' hatchling will grow to be a 8' monster in 1 years and go from eating very small rats to eating rabbits in a year.

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>>Thanks for putting that chart together, hopefully it will keep some people from buying a burm they cannot take care of in the long run.

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>>Jason

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