BOSS Prices! Holy Toledo!

[gltrap54]

Just went to my farm supply for another 50# of BOSS. Talk about sticker shock! The last bag I purchased a few months ago was $16.95, today I paid $31.95. I feed it sparingly to my hens, and wild birds, but the flea bitten squirrels really consume the lion's share.

 

[new chick 203]

and forget about mealworms! they are off the chart!

 

[eds500]

I'm switching from growing mammoth sunflowers to growing black oil next year. I haven't given them BOSS yet but I will if I can grow them. Granted they will eat the mammoth seeds but I'd rather harvest and roast the mammoth for me and the BOSS is better for them.

 

[LostGosling]

I've never heard of Boss before, but cracked corn has sky rocketed in the last year! I keep a book on all my chicken breeding related purchases, and last summer I paid $8.01 for a 50 lb sack. The last time I bought it, It was $11.31!!!

Thats a $3.00 jump in a year! What, may I ask, do the feed companies think where going to do? This time I just went ahead and payed $2 more dollars for the good stuff, because my girls where trying to eat they're own eggs on just the cracked corn!

 

[Two Creeks Farm]

Increase in cost is directly related to teh higher fuel prices....just like tax increases, they pass them on:/

 

[Chris09]

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Or could it be do to poor harvest the last few years.

Chris

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

The dust bowl heat wave has driven prices up. Caused ranches to sell off all the stock, it's very sad.

 

[Squirrelgirl88]

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BOSS - Black Oil Sunflower Seeds. They are smaller than the "striped" seeds.

 

[Katy]

You might want to check out this thread from last week
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=542456