Knew I should’ve bulk bought my wood pellets!

[LittleBlueBird]

Instead of waiting for my friend to go halves on a pallet, now look at the prices!

So other than buying lots of cat litter pellets or wood fuel pellets, what should I move to this winter?

Have shavings at the moment, the snowflake soft chip are rubbish for urine just pools on the mat.

what else should we be stocking up on before winter?

 

[FieldOrnaments]

Dare I be so bold as to suggest it, but none of us should be 'stocking up' beyond what we need, due to price rises - precisely because that will drive prices all the higher, if people scramble to stockpile out of fear of being priced out later in the year.

As for a soft chip alternative, have you tried rape straw bedding, or one of the miscanthus chops?

 

[LittleBlueBird]

Yes you’re right, stockpiling is rather selfish. Poor choice of words I meant what else should I be getting before winter to give me a head start.

looked at rape straw but lots of not very good reviews, the other isn’t available near me unfortunately.

 

[holeymoley]

I gave up, the prices have gone through the roof. I’m back on old fashioned straw with a layer of shavings to soak the wet areas up.

 

[BethanT]

It's the fuel prices that have driven costs up. Hauliers now add a variable % as a surcharge to each pallet. A few months ago it was ranging from 7-14% of the value of the goods on the pallet on top of the usual delivery charge of say £30 per pallet making delivery of one pallet potentially circa £70. It might be that once the fuel price is sorted costs will come down, so I would hold fire for a few months if you can.

I use Straw pellets but not sure how they compare to wood pellets price wise.

 

[Ownedby4horses]

It's the fuel prices that have driven costs up. Hauliers now add a variable % as a surcharge to each pallet. A few months ago it was ranging from 7-14% of the value of the goods on the pallet on top of the usual delivery charge of say £30 per pallet making delivery of one pallet potentially circa £70. It might be that once the fuel price is sorted costs will come down, so I would hold fire for a few months if you can.

I use Straw pellets but not sure how they compare to wood pellets price wise.

It isn’t just Fuel cosets, it’s supply, a lot come from countries like Russia and for obvious reasons we no longer all get those. When I was in the UK, the White Horse energy ones always came from Russia.

Anyone thinking of “bulk buying”, for lots of reasons please don’t, one of which is so many of us rely on wood pellets for all our heating and hot water and have no alternative systems.

 

[Patterdale]

Since when has there been anything wrong with bulk buying essentials? We always get all the logs we’ll need for winter at the end of summer. I buy haylage enough to last the winter. I always get 2 months worth of feed. When oil prices started going up I filled all our tanks.

Surely that’s completely normal!?

 

[willowblack]

Concord Straw Pellets! We changed over about 3 years ago and they are amazing.

 

[anguscat]

My farming neighbour said yesterday the standing straw isn’t selling (SouthWest) and she wonders if farmers have been reducing stock.

 

[Ownedby4horses]

Since when has there been anything wrong with bulk buying essentials? We always get all the logs we’ll need for winter at the end of summer. I buy haylage enough to last the winter. I always get 2 months worth of feed. When oil prices started going up I filled all our tanks.

Surely that’s completely normal!?

Agggh, sorry, I actually meant stockpiling, beyond what is normally bought. Prices have rocketed across Europe also and there is a shortage here, according to suppliers it’s due to people stockpiling when they suspected prices were on the rise.

 

[Red-1]

Since when has there been anything wrong with bulk buying essentials? We always get all the logs we’ll need for winter at the end of summer. I buy haylage enough to last the winter. I always get 2 months worth of feed. When oil prices started going up I filled all our tanks.

Surely that’s completely normal!?

Haha, I used to bulk buy haylage until the time Mr Ratty moved in, unbeknownst to me...

I buy a month at a time at most now, lesson learned!

Every. Single. Bale. Nibbled. And. Spoiled!!!

 

[asmp]

Haha, I used to bulk buy haylage until the time Mr Ratty moved in, unbeknownst to me...

I buy a month at a time at most now, lesson learned!

Every. Single. Bale. Nibbled. And. Spoiled!!!

Same here. Bought a pallet of haylage. Although only a few bales were nibbled on , it wiped out any saving I made.

 

[Fjord]

Straw pellets might be worth a try? I've switched from wood pellets to straw pellets with chopped rape straw on top (Sundown Yellow), as it's less dusty and I have a local supplier that can deliver a few bales/bags at a time.

 

[Flyermc]

ive no idea if this is correct (or a scam) but it came up on my FB feed if any use?

 

[QuantockHills]

no not a scam I don't think... someone on here recommended this chap to me this week as he supplies her... i'm going to ring him...

 

[Birker2020]

I don't see an issue with getting as much as you can before prices go through the roof, call that stockpiling or whatever. Its just plain common sense.

I've tried the wood cat pellets on Saturday but early indications aren't good. They have all moved about as I used them dry and some of them have come up (dry) through the surface and I was worried that my horse might think they were pony nuts so last night when my partner was at the yard we dampened them all. In hindsight we should have done that anyway.

I do have a pallet of ten horse pellets that I was lucky enough to get off a friend for £5 a bag and these are a decent size so at least we have something else.

 

[Annagain]

ive no idea if this is correct (or a scam) but it came up on my FB feed if any use?

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Not a scam as such but only 40 bags on the pallet - most pallet loads are 65 bags.

 

[Birker2020]

Not a scam as such but only 40 bags on the pallet - most pallet loads are 65 bags.

£5.50 a bag but that won't include delivery.