Whats in your mix?

[Guest joshdonlan]

With corn getting to stupid money nearly £10 for a measly 20KG bag, im thinking of mixing my own. Im currently diluting a Bucktons YBird high protein mix with extra wheat so its costing £25 for 60KG of corn.

 

Im thinking of making my own mix. My question is what should i put in it?  Im thinking of mapples, wheat, but what else?

[Guest strapper]

With corn getting to stupid money nearly £10 for a measly 20KG bag, im thinking of mixing my own. Im currently diluting a Bucktons YBird high protein mix with extra wheat so its costing £25 for 60KG of corn.

 

Im thinking of making my own mix. My question is what should i put in it?  Im thinking of mapples, wheat, but what else?

 

im paying £7.50 for a winter mix from hereford...25kg.

[Novice]

I thought Swainsons were advertising between £7 and £8 a bag delivered on quantities of 40 bags.

[dwh]

£6-50 20kg bag swainstons see his advert inbhw last week buy40 bags £1 off abag

[kirky]

im useing bamfords all rounder at £9 a 20kg bag a good mix.

[Guest joshdonlan]

£6-50 20kg bag swainstons see his advert inbhw last week buy40 bags £1 off abag

 

dont get it mate. Do you have the ad?

[wullie semple]

im useing bamfords all rounder at £9 a 20kg bag a good mix.

 

bamfords  winter mix £6 25 20 kg

[Guest joshdonlan]

 

bamfords  winter mix £6 25 20 kg

 

whats in it?

[dwh]

sorry high pro 6-95

winter rest £6

4 seasons £7-95

moult mix7-25

super junior 7-50

depuritive 6-00

all round 7-75

irish 8-00

standard 7-00

challange 7-00

enterprise 6-50

trophy 7-00

classic 7-00

channel 7-00

breed n wean 7-95

no bean 7-75

premier gold7-75

prince 7-75

j a swainston, bradbury, sedgefield,co. durham. ts21 2es

01740 623958    e-mailsteve@swainstons.ec lipse.co.uk

all 20 kg discount of upto £1-00 if you collect on bulk of 40 bags or more.

order 40 or more will deliver anywhere in country £20 per pallet surcharge for postcodesPH,DD,AB,IV,KW AND NORTHERN IRELAND

[Guest joshdonlan]

are swainstons mixes any good?

[wullie semple]

 

whats in it?

 

beans white peas wheat barley maize nice feed

[kirky]

 

bamfords  winter mix £6 25 20 kg

ya i can get winter mix at same price if i wanted it.

 

 

[wullie semple]

are swainstons mixes any good?

 

they where ok some times but not as good as bamfords

[pigeon pete57]

ive just had 60 bags from swainstons saved myself over 150 pounds on local prices

[dwh]

Not bad its not polished but its good clean corn

[fosseside]

Local farm barley and moulting mix half and half ,hope this helps .

[kev01293]

i can only dream of paying £7-10 for a bag of corn down here in sussex yesterday i paid £14 for a 25kg bag of gem premier (which has a lot of wheat in it) and my suppliers want £19 plus for natural (de scheemaeker bros) french breeding mix  kev

[dwh]

we use versele laga super w/hood and thats between 11-12 quid abag shocking      one place its not a kick in the backside off £13                                                                                                      

[Guest joshdonlan]

why is corn so expensive? I cannot afford to keep the number of birds i want. Will the price ever come down? Im paying £5.50 for 20kg of wheat from the corn store. I have tried finding a local farm, but no joy.  :'(

[Guest IB]

Like yourself feed Bucktons, and experimenting with mixing my own feeding, not just because of costs, my birds always seem to leave something from the different mixes through the seasons: moulting mix they were leaving buckwheat till I started adding beans, maples & tares; breeding & racing mixes, they leave maize etc.

 

So don't see point of buying something they don't eat. Now looking to have bins which I can mix day by day to suit. Base will be beans, maples and tares, and singles [so far] will be wheat, maize, barley.  

[davebuttle]

are swainstons mixes any good?

 

we have been using them for years as they are about 5 mile from my loft.

 

won Clermont (401 miles) and Lillers (328 miles) 1,2 & 3 for the past 3years on their all round mix with g10s

 

currently feeding them enterprize and barley for winter feeding, barley is very clean and of good quality

 

"edit some words were in twice"

[Guest strapper]

buy your winter corns from the farms...much cheaper..i buy mixtures all year round from a farm,high protein economy £8.60 dearest ive seen it..25kg bag.  a1 corn.very clean.

[Guest grizzler]

bucktons youngebird is over £11 a bag here,thinking of adding layers pellets to it to keep costs down

[Guest joshdonlan]

buy your winter corns from the farms...much cheaper..i buy mixtures all year round from a farm,high protein economy £8.60 dearest ive seen it..25kg bag.  a1 corn.very clean.

 

how do you find your local farms selling corn?

[DAVIDL]

 

 

  im feeding crowthers own winter/resting mix, its a 25kg bag and cost £7..........the mix is as follows.

 

wheat,barley,white peas,maize,green peas,maple peas,beans and red dari.

protien 9.7%, fibre 2.3%, oil 3.9%, and ash 1.8%