[MKay]

Feed that cheap, what on earth is in it? earth?
Maybe im a fuss pot but I wont even feed commersial nuts to my pigs, I buy

local barley was £140/t now 180
local wheat was 180/t now 200    and I get a discount because the old boy likes me!
local oats    was 165/t now 240
imported soya (i do hate doing so) £10/25kg

Then i mix to make age specific blends, Dry sow Winter blend works out at around £230 ton.

all it takes is a large barrow, a shovel and a heavy duty carp fishing scale.

This year we are drilling a hectare of Fodder peas which will reduce my dependance on Soya in autum.

[benkt]

MKay - was it easy to get a mixing license? I could get straights form neighbouring farms easily enough but the whole paperwork thing puts me off....

[Pasture Farm]

Ive just had a price this morning fromour local supplier @ £7.56 for 20kg  regardless of quantity

[MKay]

It is one simple form- you sign and send. doddle.

Unless you get a super special smallholder nut, its going to be rubbish with 30% filler.
Why when you are trying to produce the most amazing flavour would you give them the cheapest rotgut you can find?
Corn fed chickens taste better than barley fed chicken! Mine taste better than Caithness porks despite them having the same lineage, and being raised 2miles apart, differance? they feed Harbro nuts.

[Jackie 2]

Im sorry jackie but it has to be said, selling rare breed pork at that price in a free market is not on!
For friends and family- sure your "not for profit" sales will not do any harm but to the public!
You are making those trying to make a living look like theives!

Im sorry you dont like it BUT I have to sell the meat I dont need, so in the words of some immortal person somewhere, TOUGH!

[Pasture Farm]

perhaps you can tell  us if you're husband is back in  order that you can share the fantastic food price secrets.......i'm about to take on more weaners and any help would be gratefully received.......

[Jackie 2]

We buy from BOCM Paul and from the prices quoted on this thread I think they price differently in different areas.


 I asked hubby about this and he says its feasible and pricing may be different with the amount bought or the frequency of buying.


Yesterday I went to a local feed merchant for some chick crumb and got talking about prices and they have agreed to sell me feed at the same price as BOCM Paul, next time I go back I will then ask why I should buy from them as apposed to BOCM Paul, surely if they wanted my business it should be slightly cheaper. lol


If you dont ask you dont get do you?

[Padge]

Well    we're the same area    and can get nowhere near for the birds sheep or pigs
 
And    we all keep asking you...............but we don't seem to be getting.
 
 
 
As you say......lol.
 
 

[Fowgill Farm]

Ive just had a price this morning fromour local supplier @ £7.56 for 20kg  regardless of quantity

Hmm that makes yours £378/tonne so makes me feel quite good that mines £341/tonne delivered which equates to £6.82/bag (20kg) so maybe i'm nit as badly done to as i thought.
Mandy

[Jackie 2]

Well    we're the same area    and can get nowhere near for the birds sheep or pigs
 
And    we all keep asking you...............but we don't seem to be getting.
 
 
 
As you say......lol.

Padge Im in North Killingholme, are you near me?


We pay £305 per ton for Sow and Weaner from BOCM Paul


Sheep creep I buy only an occasional bag as I feed them hay and there is no lambs due.


Chicken food I pay £156 per 1/2 ton for finisher pellets


From Melton Mowbray cattle market I have bought layer chickens for £5 and weaners for £8.


This last week I bought Alesbury duck eggs 15 for £3
I also bought some chicken eggs as they were too cheap to resist buying.


The goose eggs on sale were going for approx £1.60 each but I have my own

[Jackie 2]

Oh and do what I do for meat birds, find a supermarket supplier and when the birds get to 31 days old (turn around is 31 days at my supplier) offer to buy some, chicken farmers only get about £1 per bird so if you offer more then they are quids in and you get healthy happy meat birds usually. The meat birds I get are ross cob/ hubbards

[P6te]

Hi Jackie,

You previously quoted:

Cost of feed £6.00 / 25kg sack

Now £6 for 25kgs equates to £240 / tonne (40 x 25kg sacks = 1 tonne) where I come from.

You are now saying:

We pay £305 per ton for Sow and Weaner from BOCM Paul

Making a difference of £65 / tonne from one post to the next ....

[Jackie 2]

Sorry trying to get info from hubby is like getting blood from a stone

[Fowgill Farm]

Hi Jackie,

You previously quoted:

Cost of feed £6.00 / 25kg sack

Now £6 for 25kgs equates to £240 / tonne (40 x 25kg sacks = 1 tonne) where I come from.

You are now saying:

We pay £305 per ton for Sow and Weaner from BOCM Paul

Making a difference of £65 / tonne from one post to the next ....

the mistake is in the bag size BOCM only do 20kg so Jackie got her bag size wrong 50bgs = tonne so 50 x £6 =£300
mandy

[Jackie 2]

Yes thats right Mandy, and I hauled hubby over the coals for that mistake too as I had asked him how big the sacks were and he did reply 25kg but when I asked the price per ton and how many sacks that was I then realised that they were 20kg sacks       My bad guys, more accurately hubby's bad.