EEEk! Price increase @ TSC

[augustmomx2]

I have had chickens for about 2yrs and yesterday, I went to TSC to pick-up some Layena feed, shavings & BOSS. Boy, did I get a surprise! The Layena went up from: $13.99 to 16.99 and the BOSS went up from $14.99 to $18.99!

I'm paying $7 extra dollars, for what?! I know food prices are going up, but I just didn't realize the feed would increase so quickly and steeply. I purchased Dumor instead @ $13.99 & now will visit my feed store instead, in hopes that the price didn't go up already

I have 25 broilers coming in mid-March, I'm thinking to start stocking up...

 

[chickenaddictntn]

 

[chickened]

If you have a Wilco farm store it is on sale (Layena 50#) for $12.00, Thank the bio fuel/ethanol crowd.

 

[4-H chicken mom]

I'm getting broilers to but not til April. I think I will start stocking up as well.

 

[6chickens in St. Charles]

.............but just when I bought a whole new 50# bag, the snow and ice melted, and do you think my birds ate any of their #*!@! expensive feed? Nooooooooo, they're pulling stuff out of the mud and mucky yard, big squishy gullets full of Gad Knows What.

Maybe the feed store saw higher interest in feed sales, because all the chickies were hungry and many more people have hungry chickies than ever before. But now the weathers' turning, and the feed will just sit there for days, hardly getting picked at; last 2 years, my Feb bag lasted until beginning of winter.

 

[journey11]

I know, it's aggravating. I've been getting the Dumor for 3 years now and in the past couple months have watched it inch up steadily. They say the US corn reserves are at an all time low. Supply and demand.

I'm looking to see if I can feed mine cheaper by buying bulk through a local mill.

 

[Cass]

Jusy glanced at cracked corn prices when I was ahh..looking for cat litter...yeah, cat litter, not looking to see if they had chicks yet...

Cracked corn went up 3 bucks a bag since FALL....ouch. I think my Mallards might be eating more native vegitation this year, cuz I can't afford to feed wild animals at 13 bucks a bag.

 

[Cindiloohoo]

I'm planting my own grains this year for this reason. My goal is a years worth of chicken feed in my garden. I'm planting wheat, BOSS, corn, millet, and maybe oats and barley if I can find seed, then finishing out with winter wheat and some hay. I plan on trying some silage too for both the poultry and the goats.

 

[gryeyes]

Yeah, when I eeeked at the cost of an "emergency" bag of feed (what I buy during the week because I didn't plan well - I can't get to my fav feed store except on weekends) the employee said, "Yes, cost of corn went up."

Apparently my favorite feed store buys in much larger quantity, because the hike in price wasn't as much, when I bought three bags of feed on the weekend.

 

[BluBug]

Wheat prices have been increasing for a year,now and corn has been steadily going up every 2 weeks, I'm certain all grain will keep increasing. One of the causes are the higher fuel prices, cost more to plant & harvest, but World demand has also caused it. A lot of countries have had devastading floods etc and lost their hay & grain crops.
Also have you noticed that TSC has not been sending their regular customers a usual 10% off coupon ? Only have % off of things that they want to sell, not on things we might need,such as livestock feed.