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| Posted: Mon Jul 12th, 2010 01:36 am |
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House of Rock a Doodle Member
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I am curious what other chickenchatter members are paying for grain. I think that the prices are EXTREMELY out of whack for this economy. I was looking through my receipts from last year and the highest price I paid for a 50 lbs bag of layer pellet was $10.50 and this year I have paid on average $13.85 and the highest I have paid was $17.35 for the same size bag.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12th, 2010 01:48 am |
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Meghan Admin 
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The first year I had chickens, a bag of grain was about $6.75. Now a bag of 'store brand' is about $10.50-$11.00. It's down from last spring though (or was it the spring before?) when it was running $13.something a bag. Blue seal is about $3 a bag more, and was up as high as $18. It is even more expensive at TSC. Funny thing is that my goat grain, with the same percent of protein, is about the same price as a bag of layer. I really need to compare tags and see what the true differences are. Now hay... omg.. that runs at $5.75-ish a bale. Straw costs the same amount (the manager says it's shipped in from Canada and put through a 'process' lol). That's MUCH cheaper if you buy it from local farmers... and much better quality as well.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12th, 2010 02:08 am |
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gypsy Hatching Queen 
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wow thats cheap for hay my feed store is up to 9.00 $ a bale and straw is 9.50$ a bale.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12th, 2010 02:10 am |
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Meghan Admin
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gypsy wrote: wow thats cheap for hay my feed store is up to 9.00 $ a bale and straw is 9.50$ a bale. Yes, I do actually consider it cheap compare to how hay is running in other places!! But it's still too much, especially when it's usually brown and yellow 
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12th, 2010 02:51 am |
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ReniesPeeps Chicken Chaser 
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I am thinking the higher prices were reflecting the gas prices for trucking the grain around.. not so much for the grain itself. I am paying Poulin.. 10.90 for egg layer plus, 9.60 for grower crumbles, and 4.50 per bale of shavings delivered and stacked in my shed. He comes every 2 wks.
____________________ Renie's Peeps: "Where Orpington's Reign Supreme" Psss.. They are the only chickens I have. lol "NPIP Tested clear by the State of NH" |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12th, 2010 01:58 pm |
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House of Rock a Doodle Member
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I can understand the reasoning behind gas prices but over the last 18 months gas was up to almost $5.00 a gallon and grain was $10 an 50lbs bag and currently gas is $2.69- $2.89 a gallon and grain is $13.85. One of the owners of a grain store I was talking to said grain prices are a perfect example of supply and demand. as everyone is getting into having chickens. and we all have even seen the price of anything associated with chickens go up.
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12th, 2010 02:00 pm |
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House of Rock a Doodle Member
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gypsy wrote: wow thats cheap for hay my feed store is up to 9.00 $ a bale and straw is 9.50$ a bale. I need to find you a less expensive supplier for hay !
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12th, 2010 05:53 pm |
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shay20 Shay's Flock of Fun!! 
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gypsy wrote: wow thats cheap for hay my feed store is up to 9.00 $ a bale and straw is 9.50$ a bale. holy cow, that is high. 
____________________ Wife, and mom to a whole lot of animals, Polish lf and bantams, silkies, showgirls, oeg, oegb, sumatra, phoenix, d'uccle ,frizzles, cochin bantams and lf,huodans, brabanters, These are just my paired up breeds. Selling hatching eggs and chicks. |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12th, 2010 05:56 pm |
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shay20 Shay's Flock of Fun!!
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Lets see, i buy i cant remember exact price but this is pretty much what i pay medicated chick starter - 13.00 or so game starter grower - 12.00 game finisher- 12.00 cracked corn- 9.00 around egg layer- 11.00 around we have a great supplier for our hay. my horse and gaots, sheep even my geese loh and teh chickens love the hay. lol and i sell the bales of hay which is first cut right now at $7.00 Last edited on Mon Jul 12th, 2010 06:01 pm by shay20 ____________________ Wife, and mom to a whole lot of animals, Polish lf and bantams, silkies, showgirls, oeg, oegb, sumatra, phoenix, d'uccle ,frizzles, cochin bantams and lf,huodans, brabanters, These are just my paired up breeds. Selling hatching eggs and chicks. |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12th, 2010 06:01 pm |
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vnsseed The Seed Man
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shay20 wrote: gypsy wrote:wow thats cheap for hay my feed store is up to 9.00 $ a bale and straw is 9.50$ a bale. Hmm... maybe we should get out of the chicken business and start growing hay...  In my opinion, it isn't so much supply and demand, but what will the market bear? If the feed stores are actually selling feed at $13.00 per bag (meaning it is flying off their shelves) than why sell it for $10.00? With alot of people getting into the whole "chicken thing" and now articles in Time magazine, WSJ, and on Martha Stewart it will only get bigger. The sad thing is that those who were raising chickens for sustanance will take a "pay cut", as the cost of rasing chickens will go up.
____________________ Dave V. http://www.vnsseed.com raising Dominiques & Speckled Sussex |
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| Posted: Mon Jul 12th, 2010 08:58 pm |
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House of Rock a Doodle Member
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I was trying to see if a "chicken group" could get better pricing through any of the grain stores so far I haven't had good luck. But are group is not small and if there was some way to get better pricing would be great.
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| Posted: Tue Jul 13th, 2010 06:38 pm |
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Just a Country Girl Member
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I just picked up 300 bales of first cut off the field for $3 a bale. good size 50 to 60 pound bales and it's real nice hay better then what TS is selling for $9.50 a bale. Average price for hay around her is 5 to 6 dollars a bale but if you look hard enough you can buy it cheaper.
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