Carrots

[MrsK]

How much does everyone pay for one of those orange nets? Prices near us vary from £2.00 to £3.00!

 

[lilpete]

£3.00 I think I pay!

 

[mangobiscuit]

I got given some as a kind of gift the other day (yes yes I know.....aren't I just the lucky lady!) but they went pretty mouldy and gross after 2 days

So pretty lousy pressie then actually!

 

[Blondestablebabe]

About 2.00 I think

 

[Tia]

They are $8 here for a 50kg bag.

I don't however use carrots for my horses - way too much sugar for them and hardly any of mine like them or know what to do with them anyway.

 

[mangobiscuit]

Gosh...I didnt realise carrots had a high sugar content!!!?? Ooops - my boy has a carrot addiction...or maybe he is, in fact, addicted to sugar!!

There's a bloke down my yard that "gets rid of our birds in rafters of stable issues" and he always has a pocket full of sugar lumps - Fin usual puts on his *oh look at me.....my mum starves me....you dont happen to have anything edible in your bulging pockets do you!?*

Oh and to actually answer the question!!!*ooops* I think bags round here are around 3 quid but i usually just get Fin value ones from Sainsburys. (Or Waitrose if I'm feeling generous

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[lilpete]

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There's a bloke down my yard that "gets rid of our birds in rafters of stable issues"

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We have a big problem with doves and pigeons in our yard! They poo on everything...and on me! Just cant seem to get rid of the bloody things! I want them shot!

 

[Tia]

You can shoot them but then the buggers relatives just move in!! We have ours shot every year and within a month they have been replaced!

I am buying a small calibre rifle soon so that I can shoot them myself and not have to pay someone else to come in at their convenience.

 

[Tia]

Sugar does give horses a "buzz" and definitely have addictive qualities for horses. Try feeding swedes instead - they only have about a quarter of the sugar content of carrots.

 

[mangobiscuit]

Yes....the "bird man" comes....and goes and that's all I want to know really!!

I found a completely FLAT bird in Fin's bed the other day - it was like a piece of paper...poor thing had been slept on by a 15.3hh horse all night! Ooooops

 

[Tia]

Sorry

......but I am PMSL here!!

 

[lilpete]

LMAO I wish my horse would sleep on all 10 of the things, instead they have to put up with me screaming at or throwing brushes at them!

 

[mangobiscuit]

I know!!!

I felt really bad for laughing but I think it was the shock of it!

I threw it out thinking it was a hard poo...and with closer investigation saw it had a little beak etc

....and I KNOW even Fin's fab poos dont have faces.

Poor thing. Imagine being compressed by a 600kgs hairy animal!

 

[mangobiscuit]

yup my horse is a bit of a mass murderer...I have found a couple of mice in his water buckets in the past.....

 

[mangobiscuit]

Well just be thankful you dont have a whole family of flippin pigeons nesting on your balcony

They're so noisy and have taken to sitting on the railing staring in at me - they make me feel really uncomfortable like I'm invading their privacy or something!?

In the summer I left the doors to the balcony open when I went out and came back to feathers and pooo EVERYWHERE.

Was tres tres peed off. Bet they had a good laugh at my expense.

 

[Salcey]

we pay £2 for ours, but haven't started feeding them yet as ours still have plenty of grass

 

[miller]

£1 straight from farmer

 

[samp]

£2 for 9 kg

 

[TheresaW]

Carrots are £1.40 a bag and I absolutely hate pigeons with a passion. They sit in Doll's back and she was covered in poo in the summer. Hate them, hate them!

 

[Ludi-doodi]

£1 a bag from the feed merchant. I have a family of swallows nesting in Ludo's stable every summer - which isn't too bad normally as he's out in the field in the summer, but this year he was on box rest and I had to pick the dried poop off his back on a daily basis! I don't mind, and watching the little babies learning to fly is fun but my friend on the yard had a severe bird phobia and if she has to muck out for me dashes in and out of the stable like a woman possessed!!

 

[tormor]

I pay £2.10

 

[spotty_pony]

think it's £2.00 a bag here

 

[riotgirl]

I don't use enough to warrant a big bag as they go mouldy. I buy the cheap misshapes ones from Sainsbury's and they are about 35p for a small bag. Failing that I'll nick some out of my dad's veg store

 

[burtie]

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I don't however use carrots for my horses - way too much sugar for them and hardly any of mine like them or know what to do with them anyway.


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I'm glad it's not just mine. Herbie can't stand carrots, I thought he was unique!

 

[MagicMelon]

I pay £2 for a bag.

 

[Agent XXX999]

Did you know Asda does a really good sized bag of assorted root veg for 88p? Lovely my horses say. Especially the parsnips!

 

[mandy4727]

Paid £1 for one of the orange sacks all last year. It has just gone up to the staggering amount of £1.20. Can't believe some of them are £2.00 +

 

[Janette]

£1.40 a sack....

 

[Theresa_F]

£1.40 for carrots.

Air rifle for birds.

I get about 1/3 of a rabbit in Cairo's stable from time to time courtesy of Oliver.

 

[SirenaXVI]

£1.90 tops - but I do live in carrotland!