Cost of shavings

[Hornby]

What are you paying (per bale) for shavings at the moment? Large bales, good quality like Snowflake or Thoroughbred please. I can store lots (so what would expect to be charged for 50, say?) Thanks

 

[fizz-tally]

ours are just plain old shavings,i pay £5 a bag from yo

 

[_daisy_]

ive just collected 30 and paid £3 plus vat per bale.

 

[Llwyncwn]

£3 bale!!!!! We buy ours at £6 bale ... walks away disgruntled.

 

[CastleMouse]

For a large bale of plain shavings I pay €8 (£6??)

 

[Llwyncwn]

Sniggers!

 

[_daisy_]

sorry -

 

[Mid]

The local petshop sells fine shavings for £2.95 a bale. Not sure it'd be suitable for the horsies though... Haven't checked how dusty it is.

 

[MagicMelon]

£6 a bale

 

[Llwyncwn]

Might move to sheffield! What you paying for haylage ?

 

[ru-fi-do]

£5.60 per bale. I do get free one's from my dads mate's furniture factory, which are ideal for the matting but wouldn't use them on a full bed. So it's very rare i have to but any

 

[riotgirl]

I pay just under £6 a bale for mine, dust extracted stuff. I could get it cheaper if I bought in bulk but I don't have anywhere to put it.

 

[spaniel]

Between £6 and £6.20 for Hunters best.

 

[KrashnBurn]

Was paying £7.95 for 550 litre bales from yard!!!

Now sourcing myself and paying £6.05 for 720 litre bales.

 

[_daisy_]

I pay £17 for a large round bale

 

[mitchellk]

£5.70 for hunter woodchip delivered (have to buy 30 + to get this price) Hunters in my opinion are the best for my lot!

 

[peterthepony]

I pay £5/£7 for a bale depending on where i buy it from!

 

[TigerLilly]

I pay £5 a bale

 

[miamibear]

£3 for big bag or £5 for bale. I buy bags and use about 2 a week! Not bad i thought and thats for a 16.1hh horsie not a pony!!

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

£5.50 per bale...'Natural Flake' made by a local company. They're dust extracted & the shavings are large. The bed stays really nice & is easy to mucjk out. If I bought in bulk I could probably get a bdiscount but hqaven't sudfficient storage for shavings aswell as Hay.

 

[Evadiva1514]

I pay £3.50 a bale for mine (standard size bale), they deliver them 80 bales at a time..

 

[Moggy in Manolos]

I am paying £6.75 a bale, but i am moving yards soon, so will be buying it direct myself then, as opposed to off the yard owner, so i should hope i can get it cheaper,as i will be buying it more than 2 at a time. The stuff i get is nothing special just plain shavings,no brand name or anything.

 

[Mellymoo1]

I pay £5.70 for a large bale of Four Seasons or Hunter, and I get through a bale a week. I have to buy it from a local feed merchants though and it can be a pain trying to squeeze the bales into my poor old Peugeot 106! Must treat myself to a brand new Discovery!

 

[SirenaXVI]

I was paying £5.90 a bale - got so fed up with the quality - they were dusty and some of them had big bits of wood in them

Have changed to Bliss (rape straw) it smells of eucalyptus (even after days) is cheaper AND it's easier to muck out

 

[Louby]

We pay £4.80 a bale for melavale sp?? YO does buy in bulk.

 

[Malibu]

5.25

 

[S_N]

£1.25 per bale or free - depends if I bag them myself! Yes I go to a saw mill and tbh, the few times in the last year when I have had to buy proper shavings, I haven't liked them AT ALL!!!! Much prefer them straight from the Mill - though I appreciate that if your horse has a breathing problem, they are not the best. But if that was the case for me, I'd use paper on rubber mats!

 

[madgirl]

im a straw girl!

 

[emmajanerushton]

shavings are supposed to be shooting up due to a supposed shavings shortage, i have rubber matting and like sundown bedding which is chunky shavings and rape straw fragranced with eucalyptus 6.15 per bale colelcted. i use one a week

 

[spritzer]

i pay 4.80 a bale for shavings from a gd mate of mine
i think hes sells them for something like 4.90

so if anybody in the GLOS sort of area wants any let me know

i wil give you his number