How about this for price of Hay!!

unbelievable. Maybe someone with rabbits bought it as I suspect small bags of hay/straw in pet food shops are much more expensive pro-rata. We don't need to encourage peopel to buy at those rates tho as it will encourage everyone else to put their prices up!
 
there is a feed merchants that sells bales of hay for £9.50 they couldnt have weighed more then 15kg... its safe to say i never bought from them :o
 
I've got unlimited hay and straw with my livery for £26 per week

We also have a school, sj field, a lunge pen, horse walker, off road hacking. Indoor barn stabling and really lovely fields too.
 
i have had my supplier for years now phoned him the other day i said bring as many as you can he said one small thing I have put them up from 4.50 a bale to 6.50 a bale whattt I said( I have around 400 of him as a job lot ) said to him don't I get a little loyalty discount he said no way I could keep them till after Xmas and earn 9 a bale well told him I will get back to him I rang another farmer I have got them for £5 a bale were does it stop these greedy farmers the cheaper farmer said the hay will be ok this year don't worry
 
when i left my old yard in january the last bale of hay i ought from the merchants was £9.80 so i was very pleased when i got to my new yard and it was £7.50, the excitement continued when they hay we've just bought was £5.20 a bale and even more excited when i got a job on a show yard where i dont have to pay for hay or haylege :D
 
Talking about rabbits i have a friend at work who recently got one and was buying the bags of hay and bags of shavings from pets at home. I offered to get him a bag of shavings £5, and a bale of hay £4 from the farm and bring him abit at a time. We worked the weights out and cost and worked out that if he was to buy the equivalent hay and shavings at pets at home it would cost him £61 for a bale of hay!!! and £65 for a bale of shavings!!!!! :eek:
 
LOL - reading this makes me realise how lucky I am :D £4 per bale for hay and straw has just gone up to £2 per bale from £1.50 per bale - both are delivered to my yard and the left stacked all neat and tidy :D
 
We paid £3 a bale for nice meadow hay in the summer straight off the field. I`ve just started to use it as my horse has now been in at night for last 4 nights. When I find a new horsey tho, I`m sure it`ll be gone in about 4 months as theres only 120 bales. :O
 
I'm not that surprised really, a rabbit/guinea pig owner probably bought it. Apparently it can be up to nine pounds for a tiny bag of chopped hay in pet shops. Oh I do like the fact that in my family we make our own hay :D
 
We have been using the same guy for a few years now. First class hay £3 but we have to collect it. Fair enough. The local feed merchant at the tail end of last season was charging the goat/pet sheep crew £8 a bale.
So around the beginning of August a local farmer wanders into the yard looking at the last of my large bale haylage from last winter and says that he has made better than top class hay and would I be interested? Well... says I depends on the quality and price.
Oh its the best I have ever made and .................. local feed merchant says I should charge £4 a bale!
Na says I, I been paying £3 for top quality for the last xxx years and the last lot I got cost me £2.50 as it was a wee bit dusty.
Well says he, hows about £3.50 and I will deliver it to you.
Well as long as it stays at £3.50 and you dont decide to shove it up to what your feed merchant mate was charging we can do a deal. I will need about 500 bales. Shake on it? Aye says he.
So four weeks pass and the first load arrives and what a bag of SH**E. !! If thats what he calls better than top class then he aint no farmer!! Its most obviously been baled when damp because it was all stuck together and stunk of mushrooms. So I suspect he will get his mate the feed merchant to take this rubbish at £3.50 a bale and for him to flog it to thegoat/pet sheep/1 pony lot at 8 quid a bale.
Would love to be a fly on the wall when they burst open a bale!!
So if you live in DFS and Galloway (Upper Nithsdale area) and your feed merchant says they have top top class horse hay........... BEWARE!!!
And us?
I am sticking to my original farmer from whom I have had my first load, and up to his usual standard!!
 
Our yard owner makes our hay and it's still at £6.10 a bale after it went up last year from £3.25. I've seen some private sellers on NFED for around £5 a bale but one of the feed merchants is selling at £7.50 a bale!!! I reckon at these prices they'll be a surplus and they'll be giving it away by the end of the winter - well I hope so anyway.
 
:D You have got to give it to them! If it was for rabbits etc, that would feed one for a good 6 months so it is worth it, and less than you'd pay in the shop for one poxy little pack I dare say!

More fool anyone who buys it for horses though!
 
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