WOW, how much do you pay for feed?

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I just am in a little bit of shock.

When I first got my boy it cost on average around £10 a month to feed him.

Well obviously this has now gone up and as I am still feeding a full ration to him, that has gone up to around £40 a month.

However today I have decided to start feeding Alpha-A oil, along side his other rations, to se if this helps with his top line.

£13.80 the lady behind the counter said, OMG!!!!!!!!!!

" it is one of their most expensve ones she said. No kidding.

Now as I live on a working farm, I am well aware of the rising cost of every crop, but come on this is just getting silly.
 
unfortunatly so. dengie is particularly expensive. i feed solid gold feed balancer which is £25 a bag and alpha a which is £10.25.
 
My feed bill for 3 is about £120 per month:

1 x happy hoof for pony at £12 ish
3 x Youngstock mix for foalie at £13 per bag
2 x Alfa A at £12 ish
1 x Speedibeet @ £10 ish
1 x 7kg bucket of Formula 4 feet @ £34

At £1400 or so per year that's an good holiday *sighs and wishes she'd taken up knitting*
 
I love summer, with a 17.2 poor doer over winter its very expensive

happy hoof for pony and summer supplements to go in is £11.20 a bag.

Winter happy hoof lasts abut 6 weeks
speedi beet i think is now £8
then build up mix £10.??
 
lo cal is about £23.50
ossichaff is £8 something
and cubes are about £7

then protexin is about £13
and equiflex is about £18??

thats a rough price i think, dont know how long it takes to go through the feed, she has beet and 2 feeds in winter
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Summerleft, please tell me where you get your feed
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Cbeapest here for build up mix £11 something, and speedibeet £10 something.

I tried horsehage with garlic for him, but as usual the lesser expensive of everything, from tack, to rugs, to feed, to treats do not agree with HRH
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30 kg sack of beet pulp - 10 euros (lasts 3 months) so 3.33 euros
30 kg sack of oats - 8 euros
2 litre cider vinegar - 1.5 euros

Hay was 15 euros for a rolled bale which lasts about 3 weeks so say 20 euros for a month.

Total cost 12.53 + 20 = 32.53 euros or about £37 for the two.

Hay is now down to 6 euros a roll as they are harvesting, bu we might be getting it free from our friends farm
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Bedding: Sawdust and shavings - free from the sawmill
 
Alpha A Oil
Blue Chip Pro
Bailey's Outshine
Bailey's No. 4
Happy Hoof
Oats
Mixed flakes
Sugarbeet
Milk Thistle
Plus supplements of varying kinds.

I try not to take any notice whatsoever of how much it all costs...
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£10.something per bag of Alfa-A Lite, which lasts my one horse about two months (she only has a small amount in summer, more in winter so she goes through it a bit quicker then).
Just ordered my TopSpec Lite which is £25.95 per bag, which lasts 40 days. Well worth it for the healthy condition she is in now!
Then there are the various supplements - MSM is £30 for a couple of months' supply, garlic, salt, currently also an iron supplement which is pretty expensive considering it does **** all!

In conclusion... way too much
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It was even more than that in the winter when she was on Formula 4 Feet instead of the TopSpec, and had to have copious amounts of Allen & Page Fast Fibre mixed into every feed in case she choked to death on the tiniest bit of chaff
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So maybe I should be grateful it's summer and I'm only spending way too much instead of WAY WAY too much!
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I have 3 horses, all with varying needs!

2 are on Bailey's lo-cal, fed at 2 mugs each per day, so I get through 1 and a half bags a month, so approximately £35. My other mare is on Bailey's stud balancer at approximately £14 a month. They also get garlic, but thats it.

In winter, I add in alfa a oil for 2 of them and speedibeet.

I daren't add it all up!!!!!
 
My feed bill is

for the welsh cob
1 x speedibeet about £9 and lasts 6 - 8 weeks weeks

1 x alfa a oil £13 and lasts 4 weeks

1 x ride and relax £8.50 lasts 3 weeks

the fat cob has
1x cheapie chaff £4.00 lasts 8 weeks!!!

1 x cheapie nuts £5.00 lasts 8 weeks!!!

vit/min supplement £8.50 per 25 day supply

broodmare foal at foot.....

shares the alfa oil and speedibeet with the welshie plus has a bag of stud cubes costing £8.95 every 3 weeks and a horselyx mineral block in paddock...

so i think mine comes to about £50 a month for 3 very different animals with very different requirements.......plus i get discount on my feed!!!!!
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Nothing
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I love my low maintance pone!

Dad feeds one a calmer, one Lo-Cal and one Comptetion mix in very small amounts, not sure how much it costs though.
 
I know what you mean. I was talking about this today. At the moment I pay 40 - 50 quid p/m (Bailey's No.17, Bailey's outshine, Alpha-A and Spiller's apple treats!)
 
I buy a bag of happy hoof once every three months or so... I love having a coblet that doesn't need much feed. Over the winter I also used only half a bag of speedibeet and 3/4 a bag of pony nuts (from November to March).

Even Mazzie didn't cost me too much to keep, despite being a TB. She got 1 scoop that was half chaff half pasture mix, which would last me two months or so.
 
I live in Norway, I buy my food from a supplier that only retails Spillers that he imports from UK, he is one of the very few Spillers importers so prices are high. Heres my monthly costs:

2 x Meadow Herbs = £89.00
1 x Competition Mix = £40.00
2 x Conditioning Fibre = £70.00
Totalling = £199.00 per month and a poor horse owner lol!

I also feed Equine Answers 365 Complete and premflex, NAF Linseed Oil (luckily I import these products to retail within my shop so I get them in at trade price plus import duty and VAT at 25% in Norway.

I am actually selling one of my horses due to the cost of feed, bedding and vets/chiro/dentist which all I have to go off the island for and with ferries, fuel and the bill often runs over £500.00 per trip, even for teeth and shots. Really sad as I have owned him for 5 years but I have to make a choice between the two horses as there is no way I can part with the boys faithful Welsh A, plus she is the cheapest to keep.

I think everyone is feeling the pinch, we are a well resourced family earning over 80k+ per year (wages are a bit higher in Norway but living expenses are double and car prices are well over treble than that in UK) but we are def feeling the pinch.

With farm up keep, rising costs of insurance, electric, water and owning horses and caring for them properly (basic needs) it costs a fortune. But we love them so we continue on and tighten the belts else where.

We are drastically downsizing our house this year from a 16 room house to a 8 room house, we begin building it in a few weeks time behind our farm, meaning saving paying our current 3 electric line charges and just ending up with the house and farm combined meaning just one bill and also instead of two water charges we will just get the one and of course a significantly lower heating bill. So we are making huge changes to save our family money and have more to support the farm and horses with.
 
A bag of Lo cal every 6-8 weeks. I love feeding in the summer.
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Since I changed Star over to a fibre based diet, I've saved lots of £££££. Used to spend £10 every 10 days on a sack of Baileys working horse and pony cubes. Now its a sack of Alfa A in spring and Autumn, and Alfa Oil in the depths of winter combined with Top Spec. Might be changing that to Pink Powder with added biotin as well.
Alfa lasts 3 weeks, top spec lasts about 6 weeks.
 
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