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Today I bought a bag of Pegasus mix cost £8 I remember when I used to pay £4.50 for a bag of Dodson and horrell pasture mix well I looked this up and it now costs £13 am I shocked YES ! I do realise these companys have to add on things like diesel cost etc but no wonder people can't afford to run horses anymore and are selling there loved ones at rock down prices and people must be worried about paying for food through this winter.My shop where I get my feed from have written to the feed companys about the cost and are considering going to a merchant and having there own made at a lower cost.
 
D&H charge £11.80 for a 20kg bag of bruised oats, that is £59 per 100Kg = £590 per tonne......... err what!!!
Human grade milling oats trade at £200 per ton at the moment.
I should think they are paying farmers about £150 per tonne.
There is nowhere round here to buy oats from a farmers merchant, they don't exist anymore.
 
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Depending on where you live you can get economy feeds - although I don't think I've seen anything down as low as £4.50 a sack for a good long while!

In Surrey most brand name mixes are £9 - £12 per 20KG sack. (Some a lot more expensive!) 3 local feed merchants to an ecomony mix at about £6. Its hard to buy straights at all and I suspect wouldn't come up much cheaper than an economy mix anyway.

Add to that the cost of hay which remains at an all time high. Feed costs across the winter are going to be an issue - not only for horse owners but also for welfare organisations.
 
Luckily I have a mill about three miles away where I can buy feed, I get most of my animal feed there. They sell straights very cheaply but their horse feed is mollassed so I have ro go elsewhere for that
 
Found an economy hi fibre nuts for 6.50, yesterday (a 20Kg bag). I checked the ingredients and most of what I need is in there, so I thought I'd take a gamble. Given that most of the branded bags are 15Kg, these days, I could save a fortune if they do well on it. It's even alfalfa free!
 
luckily I have a friend who works at the local feed merchant so can benefit from her massive staff discount :) I think there will be lots of people looking at cheaper options. I know I end up comparing between the brands to see which is cheapest!
 
The cost of feed is what made me rethink my feeding programme. Before I was properly suckered into buying expensive brands/ supplements etc.
Now I just feed a chaff either Alpha-a oil or mollichaff veteran, unmollased sugarbeet, micronised linseed & anything needing a bit 'more' gets wheat feed (middlings)
They all look fab & my feed bill is halved :)
 
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The cost of feed is what made me rethink my feeding programme. Before I was properly suckered into buying expensive brands/ supplements etc.
Now I just feed a chaff either Alpha-a oil or mollichaff veteran, unmollased sugarbeet, micronised linseed & anything needing a bit 'more' gets wheat feed (middlings)
They all look fab & my feed bill is halved :)
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I spent two hours or more working out the costings, to be honest I just don't like cheaper bagged feeds, horse never looks right, and he is on the barefoot diet which is straights, should be able to feed less.
 
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