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[CatsCube]

Just wondered where you get your chicken stuff from that works out cheap and easy. Mainly food. Im guessing if I mail order over the net I would get hit by high shipping costs for bulky stuff like food.

 

I know I can get straw from pet stores easily enough, but can you get layered mash from places like pets at home or other pet stores? I dont kive in a v ery rural area so wondereed what will be the easiest way of getting the main food and treat stuff from.

 

Im guessing the woodchip for the run I will be best of getting from a DIY store.

[Snowy]

If you are in a rural area I would look for a horse supplies shop - they will sell bedding (shavings or aubiose), straw, garlic powder and most also stock some chickeny things like the feed and poultry spice. Whereabouts are you?

 

Sorry, I've just re read this and you say you don't live in a very rural area Still worth looking for a horsey shop though - there's a lot about!

[Egluntyne]

I get mine from a "Horsey" shop, right in the middle of Sheffield, in about as "studenty" an area as you can get.

[Aunty e]

Pets at home do layers pellets, along with a few other bits and pieces. We get ours from there or from our local city farm, who are always happy to pop a bit on their order for us.

[nightnicon]

I live in Orpington so not particularly rural and we have 3 places near me that we can get them from 1 farm shop 1 horse shop and one general feed supplier.

For Hemcore you can look on thier website they have a list of suppliers http://www.hemcore.co.uk

[Guest]

I live in a rural area in Cornwall (not that there is much of it left now) and we visit our local agricultural/farm warehouse.

 

We get a 20kg bag of layers pellets for just over £5. And a 20kg bag of mixed corn is just over £6

 

I don't think that's bad. When we first got chickens we went to Cornwall Farmers and they charged about that, but for just 5kg bags!

[craftyhunnypie]

I get my feed & mite powder & tonic / poultry spice from HJ Leas very close to where I live in Sandbach. I normally get my easy bed & straw from there too. Newspapers come from my good neighbour!

But my sister has told me not to buy straw in future as she has bales & bales of the stuff! woohoo! The perks of having a farmers wife for your sister. She also gives me some wheat for them too!!!

 

Emma.x

[chelsea]

im in Devon,..so farmers stores and horsey/pet shops a plenty down here!

 

I have bought some stuff online though (wormer etc) quite a few sites sell it but it probably would be cheaper to source for it locally.

[AmandaR]

It might be worth trying a few searches on Yell.com for local suppliers. I get our feed and hemcore from a local horsey shop that is attached to some boarding kennels on the edge of town. For the woodchips, we found it far cheaper and easier (as it was delivered to us) to buy them from a local tree surgery company. Neither of these actively advertise, so I didn't know of them until I searched online and then had a quick ring round.

[Carol U]

I get mine from a feed merchant in Dorking, plus my straw etc. However, if you have a local riding school or similar, they will probably know where is the best place to try, as places which sell horse feed generally sell chicken feed too. Pet shops tend to be much more expensive.

[Ain't Nobody Here]

I live in a city but have a horsey supplier 5 miles away. They sell hemcore (brilliant stuff), garlic powder, pellets & apple cider vinegar.

 

I got a lot of my other bits and pieces on line - you don't always have to pay a lot of postage & if there's nowhere near you that sells the same stuff, it's a good way to get things you need.

 

You can also get a surprising amount of chicken supplies on eBay!

 

Here's a list of websites I have either used or have taken a note of when other forum users have mentioned them. Sorry there's so many of them but hopefully it may save you some searching!

 

http://www.wormers.co.uk/

http://www.farmrite.co.uk/product.ds2?p=150436&ba=150436&q=1&x=70&y=7

http://www.smallholderfeeds.co.uk/

http://www.microshieldsolutions.com/agriculture/index.html

http://www.ascott.biz/acatalog/Poultry__Birds__and_Animal_Feeds_.html

http://www.flytesofancy.co.uk/acatalog/Plastic_Galley_Pots__3_.html

http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/spr/page12.html

http://www.birdcare.co.uk/Fancy_Poultry/fancy_poultry.html

http://www.barrier-biotech.com/product.php?pid=1001

http://www.wigglywigglers.co.uk/shop

http://www.tarpaulinsdirect.co.uk/TarpaulinsSite/pages/home/default.asp

http://www.farmrite.co.uk/category.ds2?c=654

http://www.gjwtitmuss.co.uk/

http://www.domesticfowltrust.co.uk/catalogueindex.html

[sparkleeeeee]

this website has garlic, less than half the price than our local feed shop. i have also just bought two of their green galvanised feeders which look great

 

http://www.regencypoultry.com/shoparea.asp?p=d40aae14-1e10-4290-b342-4c948ab12298

 

we live about five miles from a city and we get our bits from kens corn stores which is in a garden centre/craft park. they have organic layers pellets £10 for 20kg and corn £6 for 20kg and hemcore £7 for a bale or bliss £6 for a bale.

our local pets at home sell non organic layers pellets and normal pet bedding like small bags of straw and shavings.

[CatsCube]

Thank you all, and thatnks for the links Vicki.

 

I would never have thought of trying horsey places, but will now look at making some inquiries.

[nicki9]

our small local pet shop will order in anything we want, and at a very reasonable price. Well worth asking around.