How much does a bag of chaff cost you?

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Just curious really as need to buy some more tomorrow.

I'm near Solihull/Warks area, and a bag of SuperChaff costs £6.50 which I think is reasonable. It last a month or so.

Anyway, as per title really..
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I got mine from TFM in Bridgnorth, bag of apple chaff sets me back a whole £4.08. Can't ask for better than that
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Lasted me over a month as boy was a good doer & didnt need much.
 
I feed Dengie Good Doer which is currently £9.90 at local feed merchants in Cambs. Lasts me between 2 to 3 weeks depending on time of year for 2 big horses who have high fibre cubes and sugar beet as well.
 
Dengie Hi Fi costs me £40.00 a bag, I also buy Spillers Happy Hoof for my lamanitic Welsh A which costs around the same.

Thats owning horses in Norway for you, local chaff and feed costs maybe £5.00 cheaper, so I just stick to what I use to feed back home and grin and bear it ;-)

There now that made you feel better, yours now feels a bargain lol :-)
 
I feed my Dutch Sports horse Hi Fi Lite, Horse & Pony Cubes and Ride & Relax. Welsh A gets Happy Hoof and Horse & Pony cubes.

They all cost between £35.00-40.00 a sack of 20 kilos.

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They luckily come at trade :-)

Answer to your question, I make as much money as I can and my horses eat better than I do.

On a serious note though, they are kept at home and we make our own hay using our own tractor and machinery, otherwise I just would not be able to afford horses here.

I import horse equipment and rider clothing from all over the world to Norway so obviously everything I get is at trade prices and that really helps.

In Norway horses are a very very expensive hobby.
 
oooocha beastie - £40 a bag.....for chaff!!!
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I thought mine was expensive at £11 for a bag of D&H alfalfa.

It's available a pound or so cheaper at another shop, but the supplier I use is handier for where I am and open longer hours so I can get there outside of work hours.
 
Interesting, I presume they have to import everything over there? also the cost of living is a lot higher there?

Being nosey what is an average hourly wage and the cost of a loaf of bread?

And ... more importantly is it snowing yet?
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How much for feed.
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....I thought it was a type error..but nop...my god how on earth do you manage???
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I just bought some yest and it was £7.65
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for Mollichop calmer...now I know that is expensive as a shop a wee bit further away has it at £4.50...so this shop i just bought from is havin a good laugh at our expense there mark up's are ridiculous.
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Shops own brand veteran mix is just under a tenner...
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Argo Apple Chaff - £6 per bag
Dengie (Alpha A/HiFi Lite) - £10 per bag
This is from my local tack shop, prices are higher at the closest feed merchant but lower at the feed merchant we use for the cattle feed.
 
Well the cost of living here is a lot higher, a tin of baked beans will set you back a pound. A 1 ltr bottle of Vodka will cost you just over £40.00 and a pint at a local pub £7.00.

My Range Rover on a 99 plate cost 26k, my sister sold one last year exact same make and model in UK for 1k! Depressingly she bought a year old RR Sport :-(

Yes the minimum hourly wage is £10.00 per hour (but the wage does not go up so much regardless of position or education), however the cost of living here is much higher (I cannot stress how much higher). VAT is at 25% on everything (nothing is VAT free). Import tax is set to 10.7%, plus on feed an extra % rate to compensate farmers for the imported food.

After living here 6 yrs I just grin and bear it, ohhh Ifor Williams HB411 8K :-(.

I am waiting the day I can make enough money so I can sell up and buy a nice small holding in Wales. We have a good business and I know the monthly income we would achieve in the UK would be so much less, that really holds us back.

We can afford to buy a lovely large home with stables, arena, heated swimmingpool with no mortgage from the sale of our farm here, however its the monthly income that we would struggle with.

I miss home a lot, especially the social life horses bring in the UK. The traditions in the UK with horses are so much different than here. One day I will come home :-) I will enjoy Spillers, Dengie and Allen & Page at proper prices, feel free to chat without having to think before opening my mouth and feeling like a 4yr old lol and drive a much newer RR lol!
 
BTW rereading I sound a bit snotty, didnt mean it that way with going on about lower monthly wage.

I have an illness that is such that I can only work for myself otherwise I would be on disabled benefit. Husband would feel out of his depth working full time in UK, life is a lot quieter here and his education is computer programming and I just know he would hate the cut throat UK way.

Lars would have to go into farming in the UK as a farm manager, plant machinery driver or something of that ilk and as you guys know that does not pay so good back home.

We both would like to move back home but for now it just is not a possibility. Our plan is to continue to grow our business within the next 5-10 yrs sell it, sell the farm and come home. We would then only need enough for bills each month making life a little easier to cope with.

Please forgive me if I came across in the wrong light, I forget people cannot see my facial expressions when I type as I would speak ;-)
 
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Snow has been and gone but I am sure there will be more.

Last winters pic of the farm...

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What a lovely set up you have, beautiful picture. I want decent snow
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your sig is so beautiful :-)

Yes a good layer of snow is lovely, my horses love it and then they can go on the field opposite the school. We had 110 days of rain early autumn, very depressing stuff...The snow makes up for that though ;-)
 
£4.99 for 15kg of Countrywide's own mollichop and £11.50 for Alfa-A from Countrywide. I feed the mollichop to my little sec B and a sack lasts ages. My horse has about 1lb a day (a full Stubbs scoop) of Alfa so that lasts well too.
 
£40.00 for a bottle of vodka.... OMG!!! I'm not sure I could live there let alone be able to feed a horse ...WOW!

Thanks for the info, it is all really interesting, and it makes it seem not so bad here after all
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You don't sound snotty at all, good luck with your business and your dream of coming home one day x.
 
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