Greythundercloudys
Member
What's the price of good sheep cake, never heard or phoned about price yet.
Sheep cake price ?
- Thread starter Greythundercloudys
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- Location
- Ceredigion, wales
Good quality 18% in bulk around the £230 mark
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Paid £241 per ton delivered for 18% nuts in 25kg bags this week
Greythundercloudys
Member
Probably need a good 5ton blown in to barn
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
- Location
- Ceredigion, wales
Most important thing to remember is that most feed mills produce a cheap and a good ewe ration. The cheap one is just there so they can say they produce say an 18% ration for £xxx. Very important to check the analasis IMO.
- Location
- Lancashire
Paid 230 pt 18% ewebol
Sheeponfire
Member
- Location
- Lleyn peninsula
18% £216 for 6t bulk carrs billington
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Mix your own... ye wont regret it
I would. I only feed my pedigree Charollais ewes, and my knees would be shattered by now if I had to fight them through troughs.
Last time I worked it out, to make the same spec of ration up, I might save £30/t, as long as I didn’t value the time of mixing/feeding/buying some troughs.
On the quantity I use, I think i’ll Forgo that for simplicity, time saving and my health.
Each to their own though.
is that nuts or rolls as the rolls are about 4 to 6 £ more
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Aston Gold rolls from Lea Oakes. I’ve been using them for 4 years now, and they actually came out over the label spec when ADAS tested some for a trial one time.
- Location
- N.Lincs
Mix your own... ye wont regret it
18% home mix....£173.28 - I'll just have to risk my kneesI would. I only feed my pedigree Charollais ewes, and my knees would be shattered by now if I had to fight them through troughs.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
18% home mix....£173.28 - I'll just have to risk my knees
I’m not sure if you’d think the same if you had a hundred 100kg ewes running at you like a stampede.
I only get through about 12t a year in total, so I’ll stand that.
Sheeponfire
Member
I would. I only feed my pedigree Charollais ewes, and my knees would be shattered by now if I had to fight them through troughs.
Last time I worked it out, to make the same spec of ration up, I might save £30/t, as long as I didn’t value the time of mixing/feeding/buying some troughs.
On the quantity I use, I think i’ll Forgo that for simplicity, time saving and my health.
Each to their own though.
I wont disagree with your points.... you will know the job better ....
the thing I like about home mix, Is knowing the quality of ingredients...
I will always use my best barley, beet pulp or oats.. hy-pro soya, minerals and a little molasess to bind the said mix...
wee bit of a faff about I agree.. but by god they milk and do well..
saving of between 30-50 quid /ton depending on how you cost your gear!
someone will no doubt be along soon to rip it up!
edit : It works for me
- Location
- N.Lincs
Take your point, but we've done it for years so our system (if you can call it thatI’m not sure if you’d think the same if you had a hundred 100kg ewes running at you like a stampede.
) has evolved to suit.
- Location
- Dumfries & Galloway
I'm buying the straights (beet pulp and NB Maize grains) and bruised Barley pre-mixed from the mill... it's mixed to my spec. All I'm doing is putting my molasses on it (they would put basic on, but don't have the stuff I use) which takes 5mins once a week with the telehandler.
I feed it through the snacker - don't understand this home mix must be fed in troughs rubbish??
(Collected) It's around £193, all in.
I feed it through the snacker - don't understand this home mix must be fed in troughs rubbish??
(Collected) It's around £193, all in.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I wont disagree with your points.... you will know the job better ....
the thing I like about home mix, Is knowing the quality of ingredients...
I will always use my best barley, beet pulp or oats.. hy-pro soya, minerals and a little molasess to bind the said mix...
wee bit of a faff about I agree.. but by god they milk and do well..
saving of between 30-50 quid /ton depending on how you cost your gear!
someone will no doubt be along soon to rip it up!
edit : It works for me
I have never dealt with the National compounders, with every load being different ingredients, well not since we came unstuck with it 30 odd years ago.
I will only ever deal with a compounder that will guarantee a fixed formulation and whose ingredients list I don’t dislike. The above ration ticks that box for me and the ewes certainly milk on it, when the diet is somewhere near balanced obviously.Absolutely agree about having a system that works for you. If I had walk through feeders or something similar, i wouldn’t be averse to mixing my own, but as it is, I can chuck buckets of rolls out on the bedding from a raised central cattle manger very easily.
Over time, most of our systems adapt to fit with how we want to do things, and rightly so.