The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Womble on January 16, 2012, 05:47:29 pm
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Just an idea, how about a rolling thread so we can keep track of how much we're all paying for feed? My hope is that this will build up to be a useful reference source in time. If nothing else, we'll be able to look back in five years time and say "only £10 a bag!, those were the days eh?" ;)
So, no discussion on this thread (plenty of room for that elsewhere), just your location, feed type bought, quantity and amount paid.
I'll start:
Stirling (Carrs Billington).
Standard layers pellets, 25kg, £9.45 ea
Mixed corn, 25kg, £9.98 ea
Whole wheat, 25kg, £7.88 ea
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Farmgate Layers pellets £8.oo
Farmgate Layers Mash £8.00
Farmgate mixed corn £9.00
All from my fantastic, lovely,convenient, always happy feed merchant in Shetland. ps he reads this forum sometimes if you have not gathered ;D
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Mole Valley Farmer.
Layers pellets (standard) £7 50p
Mixed corn £6 20p
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farmgate pellets £7.68
farmgate mixed corn £6.75.
both 25kg
mixed corn from farm shop is about £5.30 and mash is bit cheaper
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Nutripeck pellets £8 a bag delivered and loaded into my feed bin, number of bags on demand
Mixed corn - gifts from friends ;)
Clackmannan
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Carrs Billington Carlisle
layers pellets, 25kg, £9.45 ea
Mixed corn, 25kg, Free
Whole wheat, 25kg, Free
Barley Free
(I get a Load of Corn,Wheat and Barley free through work on Farm :thumbsup:)
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Wynnstay Farmers - Mid Wales.
25k Layers pellets £7.90
Charlies Stores, coed-y-dinas, Mid Wales.
25kg Layers pellets £7.15
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Crop Sevices Fife - Spillers around £9 per 20kg sack
Dodson $ Horrel just over £9 of a 20kg sack
Mixed Corn i think was around £11 on my last purchase, but recently have been spare grain from the farm
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Cambridgeshire
Layers Pellets £7.10 20kg bag
Mixed Corn £7 20kg bag
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Penistone feeds layers pellets from our local allotments £7.40p
Wheat from local farm £9 a 50kgs sack :)
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Staffordshire. Three price rises last year, so up 40p a bag from year before.
Smallholder layers £8.00 for 20Kg
Smallholder Rearers £8.50 for 20kg
These are bulk buy delivered prices -half ton lots. Add £1 for retail.
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Not too many on here from my neck of the woods but in the local agri suppliers:
Chambers - Drumahoe
20kg non GM Layers £8.70
Deenys - Park
25kg GM Layers £8.30
25kg mixed oats £6.50
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North Wales (Corwen Farmers)
HJL Layers Pellets 20KG £6.64
HLJ Mixed corn 20 KG £6.34
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Russells Country Store, Larbert, Falkirk 05/03/2012
Whole Wheat, 25kg, £7.72
Spillers Layers Pellets 20kg, £7.40
Mixed Poultry Grit, 25kg, £6.88
Boquhan Stores (nr Kippen, Stirlingshire), 25/02/2012:
Whole Wheat, 25kg, £8.79
Layers Pellets 20kg, £8.45
So roughly 14% more expensive at Boquhan than in Larbert.
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and have you worked out why there is a differance ;) :farmer:
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Marriages Layer Pellets (GM free) £7.60 for 20kg bag)
Mixed corn - um, about the same.
If you order a pallet load (tonne), it's delivered free. They'll do a mixed pallet, so I get sheep pellets and pig food from them as well.
With the cost of diesel plus the cost of my time, I reckon it's worth it. Plus I'm not tempted to buy "stuff" in a shop.
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is the pig food gm free as well and what percent protein is it :farmer:
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Don't know and don't know. email them - they're pretty good at getting back to you.
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is the pig food gm free as well and what percent protein is it :farmer:
All marriages feeds are GM free. They do 3 pig feeds as far as I know, Grower no.1 pellets for young piglets, Grower no.2 for weaner to porker, and sow cubes. Their website is quite good for info.
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mixed grain £7 for 20kg at polgodda. carols a living legend.xxxxx
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layers pellets £6,20
mixed corn £5.90
rolled barley £6.10
wheat £6.50
from h j lee oakes south cheshire
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Collessie Feeds, Fife
£8.50 for mixed corn
£8 for layers pellets
that's delivered to the door along with round bales of straw delivered to the field by tractor :)
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Devon £6.30 layers pellets 25kg
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Layers Pellets £5.99 (on special at country wide farmers dont know how long for)
Southam Warks
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last time I paid £ 8.60 for farmgate pellets in Collessie - and I don't get it delivered (do you get a discount, Ellie?)
wheat from the farm down the road £ 4.50 per 20 kg, same is barley
all North Fife
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Great idea :thumbsup:
Wye Valley in the Forest of Dean
Farmgate Layers Pellets £7.00
Henry's Mixed Corn (70:30 Wheat to Corn - non GM) £6.90
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marriages quail feed 20kg £9.95 + £6 delivery from farm & pet place (only place have found that will deliver here)
mixed corn 20kg £10.50 from our closest out let (20 miles)
(living in paradise has its down side :( )
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Bert - did you try your nearest farms? I just cheekily asked and they have been selling me their own produced wheat for 4.50 / 20 kg for years now. If your neighbours don't do that they might be ble to give you a hint towards a farm that sells on feed - many do! :&>
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Marriage Farmyard Layers Pellets 20Kg £7.80Marriage Layers Pellets with Flubenvet £6.49Marriage Poultry Growers Pellets 20Kg £8.19Allen And Page Baby Chick Crumbs 5Kg £4.49
--------- Sub-total: £26.97 Parcel 28kg 48hrs: £5.98 --------- The total value of your order is: £32.95
Ordered from Farm and Pet Place and delivered two days later to Bedfordshire[/font]
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I used to buy 20kg bags of Marriages for the chooks and the pigs from where I work for about £7.80 a bag. Not any more since I found out that Wynnstay down the road do 25 kg bags for the same price.
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Farmgate layers pellet 20kg. - £6.90
Garden feathers in boldon Tyne & wear
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that's good! cheapest is £ 8.60 here at Collessie Feeds for Farmgate LP :P :&>
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Russell's, Larbert, 30/1/13
- Carr's growers pellets, 25kg, £13.26 :o
- Carr's chick crumbs 25kg, £14.48 :o :o
- Whole wheat, 25kg, £8.15
- Peanuts 25kg, £41.27
- Hemcore Bedding, £9.36
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OMG
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Paying £8.60 for 20k Nutripeck layers.
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still £ 5 for 20 kg wheat at the local farm
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Same as Kegs - Farm and Pet Place for Marriages & A&P Waterfowl growers (10.99). I have also got some bedding from them. I don't even know the nearest place I can buy Marriages, let alone the waterfowl pellets so I reckon the delivery charges are cheaper than my petrol (and very quick). Did a shop around on-line and Farm and Pet place was the cheapest I found but if anybody knows anywhere cheaper....
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Mixed corn 25kg bags 8.30
layers pellet 7.95
in somerset
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In June Farmgate layers was £6.90. Now it's £8.40 :o :o
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Lincolnshire Mole Country Stores...was CWG
Layers mash and pellets £10 and £10.25 respectively 25kilo most we've ever paid
Corn from local farm £4.50 25 kilo was £3.50 last year
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Heygates layers 25kg 7.39 - recently gone up 30p
heygates mixed corn 25kg 6.80
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Castle Feeds Layers Pellets (20kg) £7
South Wales
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Lincolnshire Mole Country Stores...was CWG
Layers mash and pellets £10 and £10.25 respectively 25kilo most we've ever paid
Corn from local farm £4.50 25 kilo was £3.50 last year
Interesting, 25kg layers pellets at our branch of Mole Country Stores (Bury St.Edmunds), £10. Mixed corn at £8.05/20kg
Cause I'm a sad git and keep records, have just looked back to when we started keping chickens, 2009.
:gloomy: 25kg Layers, £5.90, 20kg M/Corn, £6.99
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Cause I'm a sad git and keep records
Me too ... 2010 - £5.35 for Farmgate Layers :(
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It has gone up here in North Wales by about the same amount.
Layers pellets and Mixed corn £10 per 25kg (Wynnstay) :-[
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25kg Harbro layers today £8.20 :chook:
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Carrs Billington Stirling, 25kg Layers Pellets, £9.95.
20kg peanuts £35.
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£8.70 each for 25kg of layers pellets from Mole Valley, Devon.
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£7.60 I think for 20kg Pinacle layers pellets from Cornwall Famers.
£10.70 for Allen & Page Poultry Grower which is suitable for ducks.
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I pay £7.35 for 25KG wynnstay layers pellets
£6.85 for 25kg poultry growers pellets
£8.35 for 25kg chick crumbs
This includes a 50p bag discount that me and several other breeders in herefordshire managed to negotiate just by banding together
If you live in herefordshire and regularly purchase 8 bags or more at a time
please feel free to contact me and i can add you to the list
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Farmgate layers 2 sacks for £13
Farmgate Chick crumbs £7.20
Farmgate growers £7.20
Whole wheat £3 a sack from a friends farm
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Trying not to be jealous of Sokel......
Russell's Larbert, Carrs 25kg Growers Pellets £11.85, Spillers 20kg Layers Pellets £7.83.
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Farmgate Layers 7.20 in local shop.
I pay £7 via a city farm that buys in bulk and distributes at cost
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HARBRO INVERNESS LAYERS 9 POUND MIXT CORN 9 POUND ....CHICK CRUMBS 13.50
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Boquhan Stores, Stirling:
20kg layers pellets £9.55
20kg growers pellets £9.90
25kg whole wheat £9.80
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Farmgate layers pellets 25kg - £7.20
Farmgate mixed corn 25kg - £6.80
Farmgate growers pellets 25kg - £8.25
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McCaskie Farm Supplies, Stirling:
20kg Farmgate Layers Pellets, £7.30
20kg sack of peanuts, £31.93
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Bearts of Stowbridge between Downham Market & Kings Lynn in Norfolk
£5.75 for 20kg own brand free range layers pellets
£5.50 for 20kg mixed corn
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H J Lea Oakes £6.14 for 20kg layers pellets, delivered on one tonne lots, bagged.
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I got farmagates layers and layers mash for £8.20 a piece
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20kg Hutton Mill layers £8.20 Mixed corn £7.60.
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East Coast Viners
Drumlithie
Aberdeenshire
Today.
Mixed Poultry Corn 25kg - £8.25
Glenesk Layers Pellets 18% 20kg - £7.38 (same price as 15/12/16)
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I think I must be getting a good deal through our smallholding club.
Bearts mixed corn 20kg £4.80
Dans
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McCaskie Farm Supplies, Stirling:
20kg Farmgate Layers Pellets, £7.78
20kg sack of peanuts, £29.44
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McCaskie Farm Supplies, Stirling:
20kg Farmgate Layers Pellets, £8.68
20kg sack of peanuts, £29.99
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Heygate layers pellets £6-34 HFS Agriculture Ltd Bridgend
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Feed in the UK is incredibly cheap compared to here. We pay 13.50 for a 25Kg bag of Sanders layers pellets. If we bought the version without the yolk colourants we would pay 16.00.
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Stirlingshire, 6th May 2021: 20kg layer's pellets, McCaskies, £8.99
13th May 2021: 25kg layer's pellets, Carrs Billington, £10.55.
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Wynnstay Layers Pellets - 20kg - £8.10 - Mid-Wales - June 21st 2021
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Galloway & McLeod in Stonehouse are doing farmgate layers pellets for £7 a bag today and tomorrow (Friday 25th and Saturday 26th June) Collection only, but you can phone and pay for them and collect later 01698 791919.
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I buy organic in bulk from HJLea Oaks. Prices have just shot up to £525 a ton but it's still much cheaper than any organic feed in the shops here in North Wales. I don't use that much myself but share with friends and advertise it on local Facebook groups. Well worth doing if you have the storage space.
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20kg heygates layers pellets £8.25 bletsoe-brown northampton
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7th Feb, McCaskie Stirling:
20kg Farmgate Layers Pellets, £10.70
20kg peanuts £33.99
7th April, Carr's Billington Stirling
25kg Naturally Pure layers pellets £11.33
25kg Mastergrade 1022 pig pellets £13.20
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I'm buying mine online since I can't carry 20kg anywhere and the delivery people take it right up to my shed
I know I'm paying for the privilege but at £14.30 it's worth it to me. That's for Copdock Mill Layers Pellets, mixed grain a little more
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28th June 2022, McCaskie Stirling
20kg Farmgate Layers Pellets, £13.35
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9th June - Wynnstay layers pellets - Mid-Wales - 20kg - £10.32
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£11.60 Leicester - Haygates layers pellets, 20kg bag (June 2022)
It was £8.90 for the same bag last year. Remember paying £6.70 several years ago 😵💫
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The prices increases atm are just hideous. Luckily I trade eggs for money off with one of our local suppliers, but he only supplies chicken feed, I have to go elsewhere for turkey, pig and sheep stuff.
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The prices increases atm are just hideous. Luckily I trade eggs for money off with one of our local suppliers, but he only supplies chicken feed, I have to go elsewhere for turkey, pig and sheep stuff.
Dont expect them to come back down to what they were either. Wholesale wheat and barley is easing back but leaving farmers making a loss. A lot wont grow as much next year so there will be a shortage in 12 months. We are looking at cutting our barley acerage by 40%.
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Seems UK prices are a bit lower than here. We have just seen a small increase but they are now 18.25 for a 25Kg bag (standard size here) of Sanders layer pellets. Converting that to £ and a 20kg bag works out at £12.70. A lot depends where you buy them from though. The gardening stores are more expensive and if there are no competitors nearby, as was the case with an independent store in the Dordogne, you can pay double. You can also add 5 if you want to buy without chemical colourants, or 'yolk enhancers' as they call them.
When we left the UK we were buying Smallholder layers for under £7 a bag, 500 Kg at a time, but that was 10 years ago. The prices in the Dordogne came as a real shock, doubly so because we couldn't sell eggs without a business licence.
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OK, I don't want to start or continue a debate, since there are other threads for that. But since this thread has been running for a while now, there's enough data to do something meaningful with it. The attached graph is £/kg for layers pellets, taken just from my posts on this thread. It's going to be interesting to see what happens next!
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20 July, Carrs Billington Stirling. 25kg layers pellets £13.25
(Note, that's the same as I paid for a 20kg sack at McCaskies last month. Something has changed, as they never used to be all that different.)
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I think there maybe and element of 'let's cash in on this' and they are putting prices up because the market expects it. Problem is, can you buy anywhere else cheaper? Price rises here are subject to government checks, so you can't inflate prices unnecessarily. I think the UK's 11% (it will be) inflation is largely due to greed and it could all spiral into chaos unless held down by legislation. So what is your pro-Brexit Government doing about it?
Prices here haven't changed since the minor increases earlier. We all know there are grain shortages and expect a little bit of an increase.
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McCaskie Stirling, 4th Feb 2023, 20kg sack Farmgate Layers Pellets, £13.35 each.
Harbro Stirling, 19th Jan 2023, 20kg sack Country Laygold pellets, £13.15 each.
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GJL Fakenham 4th Feb :
Own brand layers £9.75 per 20 kg
Duffields Poultry grower £11 per 20 kg
Duffields ewe rolls £13.25 per 25 kg
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GJL Fakenham 4th Feb :
Own brand layers £9.75 per 20 kg
Duffields Poultry grower £11 per 20 kg
Duffields ewe rolls £13.25 per 25 kg
That seems incredibly good value.
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Duffields superlayer pellets £10.75 for 20kg yesterday in South Wales
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Duffields superlayer pellets £10.75 for 20kg yesterday in South Wales
Are they the Chicken Choice ones? I normally get those at our store at the same price - £10.75 for 20 kg but the own brand is cheaper and I'm trying to cut back on feed costs. My favourite brand is Marriages but round here it is really pricey and they don't stock it at our two nearest stores.
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GJL Fakenham 4th Feb :
Own brand layers £9.75 per 20 kg
Duffields Poultry grower £11 per 20 kg
Duffields ewe rolls £13.25 per 25 kg
That seems incredibly good value.
It's a good price for the own brand stuff but the birds don't like it as much. It doesn't smell so appealing either. You get what you pay for I guess ::)
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I would say all animal feed has gone up quite a bit. Went for bird seed yesterday £24.99 !
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Duffields superlayer pellets £10.75 for 20kg yesterday in South Wales
Are they the Chicken Choice ones? I normally get those at our store at the same price - £10.75 for 20 kg but the own brand is cheaper and I'm trying to cut back on feed costs. My favourite brand is Marriages but round here it is really pricey and they don't stock it at our two nearest stores.
Um not sure what the chicken choice ones means sorry. Duffields superlayer pellets is all it says on the bag. I buy it from Pet Superstore so they don't do an own brand as they aren't a normal aggricultural feed supplier. If they did I would probably do a 50/50 mix as my feeders hold about 15kg of food at each too up. I'm trying to keep my feed costs down too as I've not put up the price on the eggs that I sell. It's not so bad during the warmer months as I've always got a spare veg bed that I can pop something in to supplement their layers pellets
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Seems UK prices are a bit lower than here. We have just seen a small increase but they are now 18.25 for a 25Kg bag (standard size here) of Sanders layer pellets. Converting that to £ and a 20kg bag works out at £12.70. A lot depends where you buy them from though. The gardening stores are more expensive and if there are no competitors nearby, as was the case with an independent store in the Dordogne, you can pay double. You can also add 5 if you want to buy without chemical colourants, or 'yolk enhancers' as they call them.
When we left the UK we were buying Smallholder layers for under £7 a bag, 500 Kg at a time, but that was 10 years ago. The prices in the Dordogne came as a real shock, doubly so because we couldn't sell eggs without a business licence.
£12.80 for 20kg atm around Leicester
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£11.05 for 20 kgs of layers pellets from Mole Valley Farmers in Somerset.
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4th October 2023, Carrs Billington, Stirling:
£13 for 25kg of layers pellets
£44.40 for 20kg of peanuts
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20 kg own brand layers pellet £9.75
20 kg Duffields poultry grower £11
20 kg Duffields turkey grower No 1 £12
20 kg sow rolls £10
GJL Feeds, Fakenham, North Norfolk
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Mole Valley layers pellets have gone down to £10.35. Wonders will never cease!
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Mole Valley layers pellets have gone down to £10.35. Wonders will never cease!
How many kg is that? Thanks
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Mole Valley layers pellets have gone down to £10.35. Wonders will never cease!
Prices going down here too:
20 kg own brand layers pellet £9.25
20 kg Duffields poultry grower £9.50
GJL Feeds, Fakenham (27 Nov)
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Carrs Billington Stirling, 18th November
25kg layers pellets £11.88 (down from £13 a bag in early October).
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15th November Goldthorpes Ltd, Penistone (South Yorks)
20 kgs layers £8.35
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20 kg of mixed corn (today) same place £7.95
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The £10.35 at Mole Valley was for 20kgs, so a bit expensive compared to other areas of the country. But at least the price is going down.
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£8-50 20kg layers pellets HFS Agriculture Bridgend
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Duffields super layers pellets have gone down slightly here, down to £10.00/ bag (20kg)
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Heygate Layers Pellets £8-42 HFS Agriculture Bridgend
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Carrs Billington Stirling, 28th February:
- 25kg layers pellets £11.88 (same price as in November)
- 20kg peanuts £44.50.
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20 kgs of layers pellets down to £10.05 at Mole Valley in Somerset.
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20kg heygates layers pellets DOWN in price today to £9.90 (about a £1.00 cheaper than 2 weeks ago).
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26/04/24 Harbro Stirling, Countrygold Layers Pellets 25kg, £11.48
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16/07/2024, McCaskie Stirling. 20kg Farmgate Layers Pellets, £9.88 each.
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Own brand layers - £9.25 20 kg
Duffields growers - £9.75 20 kg
GJL Feeds Fakenham, Norfolk 22.7.24
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Down here prices seem to have dropped slightly.
Sanders layers 15.30 +5.5% vat per 25Kg
Sanders rearers 18.15 +vat
At last weeks exchange rate that is £11.13 for 20Kg layers and £13.20 rearers which contains so much stuff, including probiotics, so I think is good value.
BUT, the £ slumped over two cents in a week for whatever reason and most importantly the forecast here is the worst grain harvest for 40 years due to excessive rain in the North and Central regions of France. So these prices are only going to rise again.
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Heygate layers pellets £8-15 yesterday. HFS Agriculture Bridgend
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Layers pellets, 20kg, £11.24 each, Harbro Stirling, 6th September 2024. That's roughly what they were charging 6 months ago for 25kg, so there's an upward trend again.
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Duffield superlayers down to £10.15 for 20kg bag. Glad to see this trend as our chicken and duck flocks have grown a bit this year 😁
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I wish I could have these prices, but unfortunately I can't carry 20kgs so need them delivered. Ebay is the cheapest I've found at £15.99 for 20kg delivered up 10 steps to my front door. Then I wait till my son visits to empty it into teh metal bin in the shed ;D ;D
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£8.20 for layers pellets 20kg in Penistone West Yorks plus they split a bag of chick crumbs into half , so I had 10kg for £10.20
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Heygate layers pellets £7-95 HFS Agriculture Bridgend
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11th December 2024, Carr's Billington Stirling, 25kg layers pellets £11.50.