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The Braque du Bourbonnais is a medium sporting breed from France, and its budget is written by its body: 35 to 55 lb of dog, living 12 to 15 years. The puppy price is only the first line of that budget, and rarely the largest. Athletic, even tempered, alert and hardworking is the record's Bourbonnais, the rustic little pointer of the Bourbonnais province: an old French breed, often born with a naturally short tail, rebuilt from near extinction after the war by devoted provincial hunters. For cost purposes the headline is hip dysplasia: it is the condition area that turns an ordinary year into an expensive one in this breed, and it is priced in the treatment section below. The page separates what is published from what is modeled, and it refuses to invent the one figure, a national puppy price, that no citable source publishes for this breed.
Every figure on this page carries its basis with it. Puppy prices appear only where a citable published source stands behind them. Treatment prices are published US averages and ranges from the sources listed below, as already published in our own cost guides. The Braque du Bourbonnais insurance figure is a modeled estimate built by a published method, not a quote. Food and grooming are planning estimates, labeled as such. Your own breeder, clinic and insurer set their own prices, and yours will differ. This page is general information, not veterinary or financial advice. In an emergency, contact your veterinarian, the ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center on (888) 426-4435, or the Pet Poison Helpline on (855) 764-7661 straight away. A consultation fee may apply on the helplines.
Prices need sources on this site. For the Braque du Bourbonnais puppy market, no AKC, Good Dog or breed club publication we could verify publishes a single national range, so we print none. The drivers section below is the substitute, and for a buyer comparing two real litters it is more useful than a range would be.
Scarcity is a real driver: the Braque du Bourbonnais is an FCI-recognized breed with a small breeding population in the United States, so litters are few, waiting lists are normal, and import-quality lines carry import-level prices. The paperwork driver applies in full to the Braque du Bourbonnais: hip and eye results and any breed relevant DNA tests on both parents are costs a serious breeder carries before a litter exists. Prices that look like bargains in this breed are normally bargains because those costs were never paid. The coat adds a labor line to the breeder's own costs: breeding stock kept in a coat that needs regular professional attention is not free to maintain, and low-priced Braque du Bourbonnais litters are rarely the ones whose parents live at the groomer's.
A Braque du Bourbonnais buyer's checklist has two items that outrank price. The first is proof of screening on both parents: hip, eye and breed specific results, recorded with the Orthopedic Foundation for Animals or a DNA laboratory, available as documents. The second is a written contract: health guarantee, first veterinary examination, initial vaccinations, microchipping, and an inherited condition clause. With both in hand, prices can be compared honestly. Our first year puppy guide covers the spending that follows.
Our modeled estimate puts a standard accident and illness policy for the Braque du Bourbonnais at $35 to $63 a month, which sits in the middle of the market across the 469 breeds we model. The breed earns that position honestly: hip dysplasia is a genuine, documented risk in this breed, and insurers price documented risk, not reputation. A medium dog sits in the middle on dose-priced lines too: nothing about its size inflates or deflates the premium much either way. Across a year, that premium comes to $420 to $756, before deductibles and reimbursement choices move it.
The method behind the figure is published on our methodology page: the breed estimate in our insurance series is anchored to the North American Pet Health Insurance Association's reported all-dog average premium for accident and illness cover, $836 a year (about $70 a month) in its 2026 industry report on 2025 data, and adjusted for this breed's documented claims pattern, adult size, lifespan and typical age at first claim. The same model runs for the Braque du Bourbonnais in our insurance cost estimator, where the deductible, reimbursement rate and ZIP code are yours to set. If your breed research is still at the shortlist stage, our insurance cost hub compares every breed we publish, and the dog cost calculator folds a premium into a full first year budget.
Where does a Braque du Bourbonnais's veterinary money actually go? Mostly to two documented conditions. Each card below carries the published figures from our own cost guides (largely the Synchrony (CareCredit) 2025 study of US procedure costs) and links to both the condition guide and the cost guide behind the numbers.
Hip and elbow scoring is the backbone of gundog health testing, per the record. Ask the breeder for the full panel, not just a vet checked claim, in the record's direct advice. The published figures in our total hip replacement cost guide: total hip replacement is priced per hip at $4,000 to $10,000; the main alternative operation, femoral head ostectomy, averages $2,791. That is how the cost lands in the Braque du Bourbonnais: a documented pathway, not a surprise category.
Read more: our hip dysplasia condition guide and our total hip replacement cost guide.
Most gundog breeds also have DNA tests for the conditions found in their lines, per the record. The breed's own record is written around screening: hip scores, eye examinations and certificates on both parents are the checks it names. Those checks are a genuine cost of breeding and buying well, paid before a litter exists and repeated for the eye checks across the dog's life. The published figure in our vet exam fee cost guide: the standard examination fee runs $56 to $129. That is how the cost lands in the Braque du Bourbonnais: a documented pathway, not a surprise category.
Read more: our Braque du Bourbonnais breed profile and our vet exam fee cost guide.
Budget the first year of a Braque du Bourbonnais from its priced parts. The parts: a vaccination series at $22 to $96 a shot (rabies $35, DHPP $42, leptospirosis $34, Bordetella $39, canine influenza $53, per our vaccination cost guide), three to four examination visits at $56 to $129 (our vet exam fee guide), spay surgery averaging $455 or neuter surgery $487 (our spay and neuter guide, ranges $361 to $829 and $385 to $885), and microchipping averaging $48 (our microchipping guide). Our own estimate from those published components: $700 to $1,600 for the medical side of a typical first year, before food, gear or illness, with large and giant puppies toward the top because anesthesia and medication are dosed by weight.
Puppies need socialization, foot care habituation, protected joints while growing and early bird game foundations built as manners. Two breed lines join that medical base in year one: the first professional grooming appointments, because the Braque du Bourbonnais's coat is on a schedule from puppyhood, and the starter kit (brushes, combs and detangling basics) that a high-maintenance coat demands from the first month.
Planning estimate, labeled as such. At about 2.8 cups a day for an adult, the Braque du Bourbonnais's food lands in the medium band of the ASPCA cost chart anchor: $450 to $700 a year. The breed specific point is weight, not brand: every extra pound is load on joints the Braque du Bourbonnais is documented to trouble, so the cheapest food decision is measuring meals rather than free feeding. The range above assumes a standard quality kibble at the measured amount.
A planning estimate, labeled as one: The short coat is nearly wash and wear; the work is in the exercise column, not the grooming one, exactly as the care notes conclude after a stray long coat line that does not describe this short, fine coated breed: a weekly brush lifts loose hair and keeps it shining. That is a professional schedule for the Braque du Bourbonnais, not an occasional tidy up, which is why the planning range sits where it does. Owners who learn to clip at home land at the bottom of it; salon regulars land at the top, and skipping appointments converts directly into matting bills.
Plan on one wellness examination a year for the Braque du Bourbonnais, then two a year once the dog passes about 10 years of age. Parasite prevention runs monthly in between. In this breed the routine line earns its keep as early warning: most of the treatment section's bills shrink dramatically when the condition is caught at a routine visit instead of an emergency one. The span behind that schedule runs 12 years to 15 years on the published record.
Count the premium, $35 to $63 a month on our model, as a fixed cost of the breed. It is priced in the insurance section and justified in the treatment section: one diagnosis there costs more than years of premiums, and a policy started on a healthy young Braque du Bourbonnais is the cheapest version of it there is.
The daily line nobody invoices for the Braque du Bourbonnais: 60 to 120 minutes of exercise a day, every day, for 12 to 15 years. It costs nothing in cash and a great deal in schedule, and in this breed it is genuinely preventive spending, because fitness is what holds several of the treatment section's conditions at bay. An hour is a floor and the record's range runs to two: the Braque du Bourbonnais is the little tailless pointer of the Bourbonnais, a compact, rustic versatile gundog bred for foot hunting in its home province, and its engine is built for all day work.
Across the Braque du Bourbonnais's typical lifespan of 12 to 15 years, our cost model totals $65 to $93 a month, $783 to $1,119 a year and $9,401 to $16,792 across the lifetime, from the labeled lines above. It is a planning model built from estimates, not a prediction for any individual dog: a healthy dog in a low cost region lands below it, and one serious condition moves a real dog above it.
The highest value decision in the Braque du Bourbonnais is timing the insurance: enroll the puppy while its record is clean. With hip dysplasia documented in the breed at the prices in the treatment section, a clean-record policy is the difference between a premium and a five figure decision made in a waiting room.
A cost page answers one breed at a time, so here is the wider field: the Vizsla, the Braque Saint-Germain and the Wirehaired Vizsla are the closest matches to the Braque du Bourbonnais in our data, and at 35 to 55 pounds the Braque du Bourbonnais is a medium dog, and the guide weighs every match on the same scale. Compare them in breeds similar to the Braque du Bourbonnais, then price the Braque du Bourbonnais itself here.
American Kennel Club: Braque du Bourbonnais breed page (breed standard, size and care).
ASPCA Pet Care Costs chart: aspca.org (basic annual costs by dog size).
NAPHIA: State of the Industry 2026 highlights (average accident and illness premium, 2025 data).
Cost of Pet Care 2025, Synchrony Bank / CareCredit: carecredit.com/vetmed/costs, the study behind our procedure cost guides.
We cannot give a sourced figure, because no citable published source we could verify publishes a single national range for the Braque du Bourbonnais. Prices vary with the drivers on this page: the parents' screening results, the breed's demand level, coat and litter economics, and region. A litter priced far below others in the breed is usually priced that way because the screening costs were never paid.
On our model, $35 to $63 for a standard accident and illness policy. The estimate starts from the North American Pet Health Insurance Association's reported all-dog average and adjusts for the Braque du Bourbonnais's documented claims pattern, adult size, lifespan and typical age at first claim. An estimate, not a quote: your ZIP code, deductible and reimbursement rate set your real premium.
From the labeled lines on this page, our model gives $783 to $1,119 a year for routine ownership of a Braque du Bourbonnais: food (planning estimate $450 to $700 a year), grooming ($400 to $800 a year), routine veterinary care, and insurance at the modeled $35 to $63. A single treatment from the conditions section can add more than a full routine year on top.
No, and the page labels say why: published figures are national averages and ranges from the named sources, modeled figures are our estimates, and planning figures are labeled estimates. Your breeder, clinic and insurer set their own prices, and region alone can move a treatment bill by a third or more. Plan with these figures; quote with your own providers. In the Braque du Bourbonnais's case, 35 to 55 lb as an adult and 12 to 15 years as a typical span, the ranges are the plan; the quote belongs to your breeder, clinic and insurer.
In a normal year for the Braque du Bourbonnais, the recurring stack: food, routine care and the $35 to $63 a month insurance estimate inside a model total of $783 to $1,119 a year. Across a whole lifetime, though, the biggest single cost is usually one event from the treatment section, most plausibly hip dysplasia. The breed's budget is a moderate river with one possible flood, and it should be planned that way.
This page is general information, not veterinary or financial advice. Emergency numbers: ASPCA Animal Poison Control Center (888) 426-4435; Pet Poison Helpline (855) 764-7661. A consultation fee may apply. Checked November 10, 2026.
Breed facts (size, lifespan, exercise and care needs) are as published on our Braque du Bourbonnais breed profile, and the treatment ranges are the published figures in our own cost guides under dog costs. Insurance context for the breed series is on our insurance cost hub.