[Sadgit]

I paid £5:80 for a 20KG bag last week.. and £2/25kg of corn.

Much cheaper than it is down here! £8 for layers pellets and £7.50 for mixed corn!

I get my layers from a hooray henry horsie place then on the way home I nip into a farm and get the corn. He also sells hay/straw (I ALWAYS forgot which one I need for chickens) for £1.50/bale and huges bags of logs for £2.50 when I run out of my free wood.

[spud]

I paid £5:80 for a 20KG bag last week.. and £2/25kg of corn.

Your very fortunate ... its been years from I got whole wheat for £3 / 25kg.

When you folks talk of corn, do you really mean corn? or are we using US terms and talking about maize?

I feed 50% pellets and 50% whole wheat, sometimes I get mixed grain, but I don't like it as there's way too much barley in it, just my notion!

Cheers

 

[Sadgit]

I paid £5:80 for a 20KG bag last week.. and £2/25kg of corn.

Your very fortunate ... its been years from I got whole wheat for £3 / 25kg.

When you folks talk of corn, do you really mean corn? or are we using US terms and talking about maize?

I feed 50% pellets and 50% whole wheat, sometimes I get mixed grain, but I don't like it as there's way too much barley in it, just my notion!

Cheers

 

Sorry I did mean wheat   :oops:  :oops:  :oops:

[Fifitrix]

Hey Ordinarygull

Where abouts in Hampshire do you live?  I'm off to our country store (Kitnocks Farm Shop, Curdridge) next week so will check out the pricing although I think it's pretty much the same as your country store.

Will let you know.  

Fifi

[Chookaholic]

I pay around £6 for 20kg of farmgate layers pellets

[Will2]

I got a 25kg bag of farmgate layers for £5.25 today

Will

[kimT]

I bought a 20kg bag of Argo mash today £7.00

[too many girls]

farmgate layers pellets £4.20 25kg there is some good to living in the north then.

[loam ranger]

Hi Will2 , whereabouts did you get the pellets from, I pay £6.50.
Cheers
Geoff

[Hawkins]

TMG your lucky

Farmgate layers pellets down here are £7.95.

[Will2]

Maddox, a small feed merchants on Darlington Back Road between Sadberge and Stockton, TMG, where do you get yours? I hope the polands are still ok.

Will

[too many girls]

Will, nice to see you again, the Polands are doing brilliantly, we haven't mustered the courage to put them outside yet, (still in my bedroom) but they are growing and seem lively and well, Tallentire at Butterknowle have an offer on for Farmgate layers pellets and mash, i bought mine on saturday (bought in bulk, but i did check the sell by date) they also have on offer growers pellets and finishers, i also had to get horse food and dog and cat food (not on offer, sniff) i would have got more but there's only so much weight a Megane can carry (bearing in mind it has to take me and pip) the suspention was practically on the floor when we got home, if only my dad would let me have his land rover..........................

[Lardman]

i would have got more but there's only so much weight a Megane can carry (bearing in mind it has to take me and pip) the suspention was practically on the floor when we got home, if only my dad would let me have his land rover..........................

I've killed 2 sets of barrings in my Golf - My 1968 Series 2a 2.25ltr petrol Landy is sitting there doing nothing but its cheaper to fix the Golf that to put petrol in the Landy  

[nnbreeder]

Tonight I paid $12.49 for a 50lb bag of layers pellets. Converted that is 8.32 (GBP) for 22.5 kg.
 And about the corn/maize thing, here corn is the yellow grain that comes on a cob and maize is a little redish round grain that grows in a bunch or head on the end of a central stock of the plant. I know years ago they used to call corn maize as the Native Americans did before settlement.

[spud]

Tonight I paid $12.49 for a 50lb bag of layers pellets. Converted that is 8.32 (GBP) for 22.5 kg.
 And about the corn/maize thing, here corn is the yellow grain that comes on a cob and maize is a little redish round grain that grows in a bunch or head on the end of a central stock of the plant. I know years ago they used to call corn maize as the Native Americans did before settlement.

Interesting, I'm very surprised that you're paying so much for feed in the USA   :shock:  

I'm with the native americans, maize grows on the cob ...

 

Here is English corn ...



And this is wheat, the one I mostly feed to my hens ...



Its a funny old world, if only we all sang from the same sheet  

Cheers