Where can I find an inexpensive scale?

[jimmywalt]

We are looking to find an inexpensive accurate scale to weigh our bunnies (Holland Lops and Lion Heads). Probably nothing over 4 to 5 lbs. Digital would be great.

So where is the most cost effective place to purchase a scale like this?

Thank you.

 

[ek.blair]

I bought this one off Amazon... works great! Put the bunnies in a cloth bag and hang them to weigh.
http://www.amazon.com/American-Weigh-Sc ... fish+scale

 

[ilovehome]

I bought a digital baby scale at a garage sale for $10. Love it, but my rabbits weigh up to 14 lbs. It has matched closely with the official scales at the shows we've attended.

 

[Homer]

Harbor Freight. $40.00 and good to 70#. put a tomato box on it, turn it on and it zeros. Ready for any rabbit.

http://www.harborfreight.com/70-lb-32-kg-digital-postal-scale-95069.html

We tried the garage sale thing but never could find a baby scale. But we did always find a bunch of other things we didn't know we needed. :roll:

 

[Miss M]

We bought a pediatric scale at a thrift store for $40. It's one of those state-tested things for use in a pediatrician's office. We tested it against the A/C coolant scale Shay used at work, when he brought that home one day. The coolant scale is extremely accurate, as it has to be. We were very impressed at the accuracy of our pediatric balance scale.

We tried the garage sale thing but never could find a baby scale. But we did always find a bunch of other things we didn't know we needed. :roll:

Ain't that the truth!

 

[Zass]

I bought this one off Amazon... works great! Put the bunnies in a cloth bag and hang them to weigh.
http://www.amazon.com/American-Weigh-Sc ... fish+scale

I have a similar one. I use one of those cloth grocery bags that they sell everywhere now days.

 

[akane]

Kitchen scales or postage scales (got mine at an office supply store) will go up to 5lbs. I don't really weigh anything over that too often. I want to know the weight of my small rabbits to know what is show quality and what to charge and I want to know when my meat rabbits reach 5lbs for butcher. If it maxes the scale it's good to go. Every now and then I had to check a large rabbit to see if it was over the senior weight and I just used a regular bathroom scale. They aren't accurate at low weights so you have to throw on a 10lb bag of something with the rabbit or hold the rabbit and subtract the extra weight.

 

[Miss M]

I forgot to say we also use ours for eBay and other shipping, so that's why we wanted one that went up to 40 lbs.

 

[Dood]

I use a $12 digital kitchen scale from Walmart that goes up to 11 pounds for my small bunnies and kits and a $22 digital fishing scale for my adult meat rabbits and other livestock that is too wiggly and needs to be bagged.

 

[amandainohio24]

When we 1st got into rabbits we bought a digital food scale at Walmart that worked very well for us. We did luck out on finding a very nice baby/toddler scale on a garage sale site on Facebook that we use all the time now that weighs up to 30# I believe.

 

[grumpy]

This may sound redundant but get one with a tare feature.

 

[akane]

The postage scales have a tare button and an option to switch between pounds, oz or grams. I weigh some of my animals more in grams because that's often used with small exotics.

 

[Miss M]

My balance scale has a third slide for tare.

Now... I can't switch to grams, but I got pounds and ounces.

 

[ek.blair]

The fish scale I got from Amazon has a tare button, and will switch between, just pounds, pounds and ounces, or grams.

 

[3mina]

I bought a digital kitchen scale from Walmart. It goes up to 11lbs and does grams & lbs/ozs. Does great for weighing almost all my stock but on my wish list is a Toledo butcher scale

 

[Ptbunny8087]

For my holland lops I use a mail scale. It works great! I just put a box on top and work really nice!

 

[sweeethearts_2002]

We are looking to find an inexpensive accurate scale to weigh our bunnies (Holland Lops and Lion Heads). Probably nothing over 4 to 5 lbs. Digital would be great.

So where is the most cost effective place to purchase a scale like this?

Thank you.

For one that measures ounces so to weigh babies get a cheap digital from Amazon as far as big bunnies I use a bathroom scale that's digital.

 

[arachyd]

I would hope the op got a scale by now since the thread is from 2014. Just in case others are still looking for scales, I got mine through Amazon. It's an Ultraship that has a tare feature and detachable face. This allows you to put a larger platform or basket on it to hold a rabbit, zero it out so the larger platform isn't included in the weight and pull the screen part out from under so you can still read it. I've used it to weigh all sorts of things over the years. I think it was about $30 at the time.

 

[user8584]

We are looking to find an inexpensive accurate scale to weigh our bunnies (Holland Lops and Lion Heads). Probably nothing over 4 to 5 lbs. Digital would be great.

So where is the most cost effective place to purchase a scale like this?

Thank you.

66 LB x 0.1 OZ Digital Postal Shipping Scale 30kg Weigh Postage Kitchen Counting | eBay this one might work