chickens that roam the garden....

[Flummery]

Stop showing off, you Snadger. I have to pay £7.49 for the same stuff!

[Bramble-Poultry]

I suggest Flummery that if you pay £7.49 for Farmgate that you contact Lisa at fargate - she will go mad as this is well over the RRP and they are taking the mickey!! (I know what trade get it for and trust me they are!)

[Suechooks]

I suggest Flummery that if you pay £7.49 for Farmgate that you contact Lisa at fargate - she will go mad as this is well over the RRP and they are taking the mickey!! (I know what trade get it for and trust me they are!)

Jennie - what is RRP for Farmgate? I pay £7 round here and seem to remember that was the price on their website but could be wrong - multiple senior blonde moments!

[tlck9]

hi Bramble-Poultry

I buy small-holders, purely on the basis that the cheaper option was only £1 difference, and was not guaranteed gm free.

Is farmgate GM free, as I'm sure my local farmers store would be able to get it in....

[Glutton4...]

Dunno if it's of any relevance, but I buy Fancy Feed's (my nearest local feed producer) Layer's Pellets at £6.38 from my local supplier. When I bought some elsewhere 'coz I was passing,' they were £7+ for the same thing.

[Flummery]

I suggest Flummery that if you pay £7.49 for Farmgate that you contact Lisa at fargate - she will go mad as this is well over the RRP and they are taking the mickey!! (I know what trade get it for and trust me they are!)

The only place we can get it from - apart from taking a long drive - is mainly a pets place (Not the Pets at Home place - they really do take the p*ss!)

[bluemoon]

The only place we can get it from - apart from taking a long drive - is mainly a pets place (Not the Pets at Home place - they really do take the p*ss!)

Not Pets at Home, but Jolleyes, another huge nationwide pet store near us, only stocks its own brand. When we first got Coco and Elvis they were our only chickens and ate surprisingly little so a sack of feed would have gone off long before we made a dent in it. Jolleyes sold their pellets loose by the kilo, which we thought was handy until we realized that at £1.19 a Kg it worked out at nearly £24 a sack. It's not even top quality, but rather poor stuff which I wouldn't like to feed my chickens on permanently. Admittedly they do sell it by the bag for somewhere between £7-8, but a 200% mark up for the loose pellets? That really is a rip-off.

[Sunbeam]

We have 10 girls who roam the garden (and up the road if they can get out!!) during the day and put themselves off to bed in the evening - we go out to shut them up for the night and and let them out in the morning - they do poop alot - everywhere and you do tread in it - to be honest though if you regularly mow your lawn then it ends up in the lawnmover box and into the green bin or compost heap.

Chickens are tricky buggers when it comes to finding gaps to get out of - we have a large garden & I am forever searching the boundaries for gaps as one or another has found an escape route. I often have to wander up the lane to retrieve one, two or sometimes three of them when they've decided to go for a walk! (usually the same three as well!) If you have a gate in the garden people have to use to get to your front door, a please shut the gate properly /wild chicken sign might be in order - we are forever closing the gate after deliveries because they haven't bothered! Feedwise - I pay £16 for a bag of pellet and a bag of corn - but am trying a new supplier today so would be interested to see if there's a difference in price!

[Bramble-Poultry]

the official RRP is around a tenner a sack for farmgate, but the accepted norm is around £6.50 RRP.

farmgate feeds are formulated without GM feeds. they take a stand on that one so yes they are GM free.

There are some people selling it at around a fiver a sack, and whilst that under cuts what i pay trade for it, i am only buying in 10 sacks at a time, whereas these guys are getting tonne loads at a time!

economies of scale.