What is the price of peanuts in China? What are you paying for feed?

[Tracydr]

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Sure wish there was such a thing as a "local mill" here in Arizona that sold feed.....

Yeah, me too. I know we've talked about it on the AZ thread.
I don't understand why feed is up when commodities like corn, soy snd wheat are down?

 

[OC closet chicken fan]

I am still looking for cheaper layer feed here in orange county california... been paying $15 for 16% 50lb bag at my really local feed store...

 

[daver]

Paid $14.15 for Nutrena Country Feeds Layer Crumbles (red bag). Can't remember what I paid back in August but I want to say 11 or 12 dollars for 50 lbs. Scratch was $11.47 for 50 lbs. I was somewhat surprised.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

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That is a good question!

Years ago Dad & I took a load of alfalfa hay to a mill and dad had it made into pellets. Don't recall what else he had added, We fed that for two years to cattle, goats, pigs, horses and the chickens. The alfalfa hay we traded from Dad's uncle next door. He got twice that in grass hay for the trade. Have thought about trying to buy some cheap winter oats, barley or rye from a local farmer.

 

[Jake Levi]

I was at a Big R store in Colville Wa over the weekend and started reading labels on poultry feed, what I found was that the majority of the composition of all brands of commercial chicken feed is overwhelmingly by products of other manufacturing processes ! None of them were composed of products for the end product of chicken feed. All were over ground, cooked and over procesed. And then much of it was subjected to high temps of pelleting !

Far better to feed plain whole grains and mix your own, although I am sure that course grinding would help the digestibility.

Its no wonder that these commercial feeds need a long list of additives to restore some semblence of food value to their dead over processed feeds.

Nuff, off my rant, for a few minutes anyhow.

 

[galanie]

I know in Texas the excuse for such horrible prices ($18 a bag) is the drought. The problem though with that theory is that the wheat and corn and much of the rest of the stuff in there isn't grown in Texas where the drought is! I think it's just gouging.

 

[stargazingmommy]

Just paid $19.95 in eastern Washington for Layena pellets.
and $3.95 for 2 lbs of cracked corn.

 

[flgardengirl]

NE FL. The cheapest 16% layer feed goes for 12.95 / 50 lb bag here. It was 12.50 but went up this past month. It was 11.95 earlier this summer.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Does anyone know what Atwoods Farm and Ranch is charging for feed? We have one that will be opening here in a few months.

 

[satay]

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Since Ducky and I live miles apart in Oz i will list my prices here up north.

20kg bag pellets $11
20kg starter $21
20kg Game bird feed is $25
A bale of straw $2
A round bale of good quality lucerne hay is $15 up to $25