livestock 1
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Yes 30/35 plus haulage
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sticky
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- Location
- Near Stratford upon Avon
Just checked up. £24.75 per tonne for milling including molasses. I supply the protein to go in it.[/QUOTE]
I'm paying Harbro £35/t including 50kg of molasses to mill between 2&4t of barley and tip in their buchan bull in which I've already bought a pallet of.
I'm paying Harbro £35/t including 50kg of molasses to mill between 2&4t of barley and tip in their buchan bull in which I've already bought a pallet of.
- Location
- Hereford
Biscuit meal not worked out . The availability is not gauranteed. Opted for a 16% growing ration off Estate and Country feeds . £251 tipped in shed .
Hope the store prices are good in the Spring !
livestock 1
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So do I!! I’m on with a 16% nut mixed with rolled barley and some fodderbeet also urea molasses and silage. Got no space to tip anything that needs to be kept dry. All sheds are full. I had a thought about trying some of that midland feed stuff in big bags for storage reasons mainly
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Phoned Harbro for a prices for a tonne of each of these in bags, delivered:
18% calf coarse mix: £430
18% ewe rolls: £330.
A good advert for running stock/systems which require minimal concentrates! Good quality stuff, in fairness. How do they compare to prices elsewhere?
18% calf coarse mix: £430
18% ewe rolls: £330.
A good advert for running stock/systems which require minimal concentrates! Good quality stuff, in fairness. How do they compare to prices elsewhere?
livestock 1
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Looks frightening
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
ECV £291 for 18% rolls, delivered to IV2 postcode in tote bags. Harbro a good bit dearer. Waiting for a price from Smelies of Strathaven, but no experience of quality from them. Any others worthy of a call?
Smellies use Carr’s I haven’t used them but my neighbour is on his second year of them.
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
That coarse mix sounds ridiculously priced
livestock 1
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The whole lot looks beyond it all
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
The Harbro price for rolls isn’t far off what I was quoted by them.....
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
I've been buying a few bags from the Mole Valley store in Alnwick on the way home, almost identically priced. The bloke at Harbro reckoned it would be £13/bag if you rocked up at the shop in Duns as a punter.
Woolless
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- Location
- Berwickshire, Scottish Borders
Yes, add £1/bag and it's the same money. I often end up feeding in the dark after work and the convenience is worth a few quid extra.
livestock 1
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Makes me think about how much mark up there is on this cake. Some wheat some barley more barley than wheat potentially not much of either then mainly byproducts cheap ones at that some mineral not a lot then filler must be big money especially thinking about the forward buying in quantity. My neighbor washed his wagon out the other day and there was sand on the floor dear sand
kfpben
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- Location
- Mid Hampshire
First quote in:
21% ewe nuts £281
18% £261
Poorer quality 18% £251
Based on a 10Ton bulk load.
Do you reckon if I fed the 21% I could get away without feeding any high energy blocks pre-lambing? They seem a very expensive way of feeding sheep.
Just grass and fodder feet in the field post lambing? Start lambing 15th March, lowland southern England. This is assuming the grass actually grows this year and I don’t have lying snow on my lambing fields from 25th feb until the 1st of April.
21% ewe nuts £281
18% £261
Poorer quality 18% £251
Based on a 10Ton bulk load.
Do you reckon if I fed the 21% I could get away without feeding any high energy blocks pre-lambing? They seem a very expensive way of feeding sheep.
Just grass and fodder feet in the field post lambing? Start lambing 15th March, lowland southern England. This is assuming the grass actually grows this year and I don’t have lying snow on my lambing fields from 25th feb until the 1st of April.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
The %age refers to protein, not to energy, so not really comparable and I suspect not necessarily a suitable substitute. Others with more understanding will no doubt chip in, but what’s the rest of the specs?
you can make a 18% cake out of shoe leather - doesn't mean the ewe can digest it, it just feels good on your pocket and in your mind your feeding the ewe.
and at 21% it wants to have a lot of soya in it, we hav'nt had much success with safmann or megalac to notice a difference in expensive cake.
as the rumen gets smaller the best cake with more bypass protein needs to be in their.
personally, id buy a better cake -feed for longer , and just buy 10 high energy buckets for in the lambing shed / triplets / quads
livestock 1
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We buy the 18% ewe rolls now the dearer ones although the 16% protein was adequate. Energy is far more important in my view than protein. I’ve seen people feed sugarbeet pellets up to lambing with success not something I would do due to prolapse but nevertheless they have made it work. There’s far more issues with lack of energy in inlamb ewes than protein