[GribinIsaf]

9th June - Wynnstay layers pellets - Mid-Wales - 20kg - £10.32

[macgro7]

£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 😵‍💫

[Richmond]

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.

[twizzel]

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.

Don’t 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 won’t grow as much next year so there will be a shortage in 12 months. We are looking at cutting our barley acerage by 40%.

[chrismahon]

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.

[Womble]

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!

[Womble]

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.)

[chrismahon]

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.

[Womble]

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.

[Richmond]

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

[landroverroy]

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.

[Kiran]

Duffields superlayer pellets £10.75 for 20kg yesterday in South Wales

[Richmond]

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.

[Richmond]

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 

[sabrina]

I would say all animal feed has gone up quite a bit. Went for bird seed yesterday £24.99 !