cant belive how much just spent on feed !!!!!!!!

[gails]

Yes I know the price of cerels has gone up, which I knew how, I am a farmers wife and have not seen any eveidence of it.

Today bought:

Alfalfa
16+
Barley rings
Quick beet

£50!!!!!! what on earth has happened, every month it goes up, licence to print money me thinks, GRRRRRRR

Especially as my boy means the world and cannot do anything else but feed him, but I dont work ( changing that with my retraining), but why do the feed companies think they can charge over the top prices, for what they think are well off.


BTW, dont work due to wanting to bring up my ( unplanned, and supposedly never ment to have, daughter), before anyone says anything

 

[MrsMozart]

Hm. I used to buy, for Dizz alone, Bailey's No. 4, Bailey's Outshine, Blue Chip Pro, Glucosomine (can never spell that lol), Milk Thistle, Alpha A Oil - and that was every month...

Now we use Chestnut feeds - helpful and nice and horses seem to be doing well on it

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[Resupgirl]

My feed came to £80 for global herbs supplement, Baileys Lo-Cal Dengie Hi Fi Lite and Codlivine joint supplement.

May be cheaper to go on a course for herbs etc. Defo thinking about it.

 

[ihatework]

1 sack of each?! You are being ripped off, that would have cost me around £37

 

[Apercrumbie]

I just don't look at the feed bill anymore it scares me so much

I completely agree that they charge far too much, I know that many of them are quality feeds but its still a horrendous amount of money!

 

[Chico Mio]

My feed bill is about €30 a month for two horses:

Oats, sugarbeet, corn oil and cider vinegar, seaweed

plus €24 euros in hay (8€ a round bale)

 

[gails]

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1 sack of each?! You are being ripped off, that would have cost me around £37

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It would have been more but apparantly the machines at DH at broken and they could not get build up, so had to get 16+ and barley rings.

What is your feed supplier?

Even more annoying as the old boy is acutally getting a 'topline'

 

[royal]

Mrs M - your in the same area as me...where do you get chestnut feeds from...I'm fed up of going to the local saddlery (ie. the only one in our area) and them not having any of my feeds in stock...they order it, then it still doesn't turn up!!

 

[MrsMozart]

RL - Friend orders it, but I believe this is the link:
http://www.chestnuthorsefeeds.co.uk/

The prices are good (we have seven horses to feed, and I know a few others including some seriously competitive ones who use it). They deliver. The feed bins are tough and waterproof (and ratproof!). There's a discount system if you order more than x amount (can't remember the number of bins). If you give them a call and tell them what neds you need to feed, they'll talk you through the options

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[FestiveSpirit]

I spend £70 per month on hard feed for my horse and two dogs - more than I spend on food for myself

£19.99 for a sack of Skinners Duck and Rice for the dogs

3 sacks of Dodson & Horrell Staypower Cubes (about £9.50 each)

1 sack of Mollichop Showshine (£7 ish)

1 sack of Kwikbeet every couple of months (£10 ish)

And sacks of carrots at £3.25 a sack

Amazing how a little 15.2hh TB can eat so much

and you can still see his ribs!

 

[twisteddiamond]

i spent £107 this month, 1 bag blue chip orig, 1 bag blue chip dynamic, 1 bag alfa beet and a bag of dengie hi fi lite

 

[teddyt]

To cut costs- dengie do alfalfa pellets that are much cheaper than the chaff for the same weight. You need to soak them though. Trident equibeet is unmollassed sugar beet that is about £3 a bag less than quickbeet. Its long soak though.
If you need high energy feed for weight gain then badminton conditioning nuggets are 13 mj/kg and about £3 a bag cheaper than build up mix!

 

[Mbronze]

i spent £90 a month - Baileys Lo Cal, Alfa-Oil, Leigh Fibre, NAF Vit E & Superflex

 

[thrillsnspills]

Without supplements, Zak can live off £10 a month. He only gets molassed chaff and pony nuts, but with all the joint supplements added on (due to his arthritis) I'm looking at £100+.

IMHO, it's the vets who're printing money. £90 for a tub of Newmarket joint supplement from them, when a guy on the yard gets it from a supplier for only £25! Rip-Off!

 

[kezimac]

yeah its the supplements that kill me too - kwikbeet lasts couple months and one bag mix lasts 6 weeks but pernamax, garlic, and homeopathic stuff for arthritis all adds up

 

[JenHunt]

with one hunting fit, and one in light work - each month we buy
4 bags alfa a oil
2 bags speedibeeet
2 bags full fat soya
1 bag lo-cal

this comes to £95 in round figures.

 

[TGM]

If you have more than one feed store locally it is worth comparing prices as there is sometimes a big variation between stores.

 

[PennyJ]

I know how you feel - I have 2 NF ponies that don't usually get that much to eat, but they are both currently in training for Boxing Day point to point down here, so are being fed well (by their usual standards) at the moment.

Usually its a sack of something every couple of weeks, but last friday it cost me £100.00. I treated them to a sack of outshine, which some rodent with very expensive tastes took a liking to in the feed room, it is now safely re-packaged.

I think they are eating better than we are at the moment

 

[wizzi901]

jeez that is unreal!! my OH works for local equestrian supplier just checked prices with him and tops £40!!!! you are being ripped off!!!