£6.50 per bale of hay and £5 delivery. Being ripped off?

Hay round here varies from £4-£6 a bale. Round haylage about £40

Given that our boy could easily finish off a bale of hay overnight, I think we'll be going with the haylage!
 
The Fuzzy Furry said:
Deffo big sign on the RH side once you have gone through the main entrance door :) (tho perhaps it might have been if you brought xyz amount like 10 or more tho :confused: ) but AM sure thats what it said as I know I remember thinking that Frosburys is dearer
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i think they have gone to 4.50... when i was getting bedding i remember saying i still wouldnt pay that even though it had gone down :o and frosburys is dearer for pretty much everything these days... i dont know what faulkners arre charging this year but last year he was asking 9.50 a bale :O but then hes the dearest of them all. i havent looked at snack and tacks small bale prices although i know there large bales of haylage are £37 and if you buy 2 they deliver free i think... i dono all very confusing :o
 
Robbery. I'm £3.75 for small bale or £40 for big round hay inc delivery.

5 bales will last you a month max I'd say. In hard winter you may go through 2/3 bales a week!"
 
Here in rural Hertfordshire, I was paying a local farmer £5 per bale winter 2011/12; this year, I've just paid the same farmer £1,000 for 400 bales (delivered) which equals £2.50 per bale! Result! Hay is excellent quality, too!
 
Trouble is unless you have you'e own machinery it costs a fortune to make hay/ haylage, so i am not surprised at the price, and to be fair it has only started to rise in price in the last two years or so, first time in about twenty years!!
We made hayledge this year as the hay was to green to small bale and had to be done then and there as it was forecast to rained the next day, and the next :( . We have to sell it as ours are to well covered and dont need it!!
 
Hay round here peaked at £7.50 a bale a couple of years ago, this year I've not rung my hay supplier for a price as we cut & baled more than we hope to use, suspect there is a glut locally as lady down the road now only paying £4 a bale.
 
Our YO, who is also a farmer, has so much hay he is going to use it to bed his cattle! We are in Kent so don't understand how farmers/dealers in Surrey can claim there is a shortage. Think they have discovered that horsy people will pay whatever they ask so they hike the price right up!
 
i pay £3 or £3.50, depending on quality, the £3 stuff is great anyway, free delivery if you buy 10 bales or more. And £28 for a round bale, £33 if delivered
 
For comparison:

We sell at £4.50 per bale for conventional square bales (25kg) at our farm here in Hertfordshire, on the Cambridgeshire/Bedfordshire/Essex border).

IMHO this is cheap for top quality hay. It's usually a fiver, but we had a wonderful crop.

Most people seem to go for cheap rather than quality. We put a lot of effort into quality. There are big differences. It's a proper agricultural crop albeit organic -- not just a field of random grass that we needed to mow anyway like I often see! ;)

I'm seeing hay sold on eBay more these days and I sometimes sell on there myself.
 
I am paying £4.50 a bale including delivery and thats coming from about 15 miles!

I dont' think 5 bales will last very long! but we are feeding out the field, using a bale a day for 2 horses! I reckon you'd use a bale or more a week at night? but i could be wrong?
 
I buy mine £3.50 a bale and have it delivered free as long as it's over 20 bales. So yes I think yours is very excessive! Shop around. Would not go for hayledge if it didn't suit.
 
I pay £5 per bale including delivery. They are really big, heavy, well packed bales that are good quality hay. My 16.3 TB was on box rest and I only used 3.5 bales per week.
 
I am in Wiltshire and pay £35 for a large bale, long not round. It is beautiful hay and my made uses 4 x full haynets daily as she is in 24/7 with the ground ruined. One bale lasts just over two weeks. It would be double the price for me if I went on small bales. My big bales are the equivalent of approx 18-20 small bales.
 
hi i am gate crashing this thread, does anyone no of either hesston bale or small baled hay north east leicestershire. pref from farmer not through an agri store?

cheers
 
Not read all posts so sorry if its been said already but can you not get a large bale of hay instead? Before I moved onto livery, I used to get a big round one for £25 or £30 delivered. I just put it in my barn & filled hay nets as needed & they used to last me 3 months (1 pony, haynet every night) xx
 
Here in Devon i am paying £30 for the massive 6 foot bales. One lasts me about 4 weeks feeding a 16.2hh and 13.2hh. Quality is lovely. Same farmer sells small bales for £4!
 
Jeepers - how much ?!!! Definitely daylight robbery, and I wouldn't pay it

I bought a few small bales where I live for £3. If I'd ordered over 10 it would have been free delivery (but I don't have anywhere to store more than 4). My large round bale, which I'm waiting for the ground to dry up a little to get it into Dizzys field is £30 with free delivery
 
Lots and lots of hay in Lincolnshire for £3.50 a bale - at that price is it worth seeing if you can group together and get a big delivery from out of your area - the fuel costs would still probably make it cheaper.

A sheep farming friend baled a big field this summer as the sheep can't eat long grass - he called round lots of local hay merchants offering the hay (nicely made and not rained on) for free, just wanted it cleared from field - no takers - they had so much they had nowhere to store it !!
 
Chat to a local farmer and pay them to deliver you one round bale or one large (heston?) bale of good quality hay. It will be £30-50 (round bale = at least 10 small bales) so MUCH cheaper, and it's often delivered by tractor. You then just break it up as you need it. Keep it in an open barn or if your doorway's too small, then keep it outside on top of a pallet with a loose (air circulation) tarp over top to keep rain out.
 
Ha ha! Try living in Jersey... if you buy a bale of hay from the local feed stockist you'll pay £15 a bale for English hay! £9 for a small bale of hayledge... :eek:
 
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