Sheep Ration Quality & Price ?

brownswiss

At the moment Aurivo are €338 for their 20% Lactating Ewe nut . A very good but over priced ration.

Aurivo are €321 for their 19% XL ration . This is the ration they are pushing as there must be a higher % profit on it. I think this ration is way overpriced . Wheat is number 2 and Soya number three in the XL.

What are you feeding ewes at the moment ? What are the top 3 ingredients in descending order and what price ?

Thanks

charolais0153

brownswiss wrote: »

At the moment Aurivo are €338 for their 20% Lactating Ewe nut . A very good but over priced ration.

Aurivo are €321 for their 19% XL ration . This is the ration they are pushing as there must be a higher % profit on it. I think this ration is way overpriced . Wheat is number 2 and Soya number three in the XL.

What are you feeding ewes at the moment ? What are the top 3 ingredients in descending order and what price ?

Thanks

Grennas elite ewe and lamb 20%. Soyabean dehulled,maize,barley. 340 i think. Maybe 320

Westernrock

Feeding the 20% xl ewe from aurivo here, get 1free bag with every 10 so leaves it at 323/ton in small bags collected, this offer is on up to 30th of March I think.

Was going to try grennans but aurivo is closer to me so the offer sealed it for this year.

roosky

Feeding the Aurivo 20% XL for 310/t bought in bulk

eire23

Using the aurivo 20% protein nut here as well, 310 in bulk. Find in far better than the excel ewe and lamb nut

charolais0153

What's in that nut?

roosky

Just off phone to Aurivo

Ewe & lamb XL 19% CP and 1.12 UFL
Ewe lactating 20%CP and 1.14 UFL

€20 a tonne in diff, to me at they are very very similar and I couldn't justify the extra €2/tonne


The ingrediants are Maize, Wheat, Soya bean, distillers, hoya hulls, barley, minerals, mollasses

Westernrock

roosky wrote: »

Just off phone to Aurivo

Ewe & lamb XL 19% CP and 1.12 UFL
Ewe lactating 20%CP and 1.14 UFL

€20 a tonne in diff, to me at they are very very similar and I couldn't justify the extra €2/tonne


The ingrediants are Maize, Wheat, Soya bean, distillers, hoya hulls, barley, minerals, mollasses

I thought the Excel ewe with lamb was the 20% nut? 🙈

eire23

roosky wrote: »

Just off phone to Aurivo

Ewe & lamb XL 19% CP and 1.12 UFL
Ewe lactating 20%CP and 1.14 UFL

€20 a tonne in diff, to me at they are very very similar and I couldn't justify the extra €2/tonne


The ingrediants are Maize, Wheat, Soya bean, distillers, hoya hulls, barley, minerals, mollasses

In the 19% excel nut soya is listed third and in the 20%cp lactating ewe nut soya is first. Well worth the extra imo. I'd think nothing of goin out on a sat night and spending 100 on a skip of pints so no point scripmin on likes of feed, that's how I look at it anyways!

Ard_MC

eire23 wrote: »

In the 19% excel nut soya is listed third and in the 20%cp lactating ewe nut soya is first. Well worth the extra imo. I'd think nothing of goin out on a sat night and spending 100 on a skip of pints so no point scripmin on likes of feed, that's how I look at it anyways!

Id think the same way as yourself.!

razor8

Paying 325 a Ton for corby rock delivered in bags maize 1st soya 2nd barley 3rd

Green farmer

Was reading there on Agriland that price of a lot of straights have fallen in price. Soya bean is down apparently €90 a tonne over last few months, yet the rations are still sky high. Looks like it’s not just the meat factories that like skinning us.

charolais0153

Green farmer wrote: »

Was reading there on Agriland that price of a lot of straights have fallen in price. Soya bean is down apparently €90 a tonne over last few months, yet the rations are still sky high. Looks like it’s not just the meat factories that like skinning us.

Ya its crazy really;so quick to rise and slow to fall

Green farmer

charolais0153 wrote: »

Ya its crazy really;so quick to rise and slow to fall

Didn’t it go up there last year €10 because the mineral factory burn down, but never came back down when the factory reopened. Don’t know, but do the cattle lads pay €320 a tonne for the cattle stuff ? More or less Same ingredients with in both except for the added copper

charolais0153

Green farmer wrote: »

Didn’t it go up there last year €10 because the mineral factory burn down, but never came back down when the factory reopened. Don’t know, but do the cattle lads pay €320 a tonne for the cattle stuff ? More or less Same ingredients with in both except for the added copper

E&l nut will always be dearer than cattle stuff because soya is a major component and that is very dear.
Cattle nuts is 315/t in bags and 295/t in bulk in my local co-op.

Green farmer

charolais0153 wrote: »

E&l nut will always be dearer than cattle stuff because soya is a major component and that is very dear.
Cattle nuts is 315/t in bags and 295/t in bulk in my local co-op.

No cheap rations to be brought at the moment so, haven’t seen many down my way listing soya any better then 4 or 5 on the list, unfortunately.

Bleating Lamb

charolais0153 wrote: »

Grennas elite ewe and lamb 20%. Soyabean dehulled,maize,barley. 340 i think. Maybe 320

Sounds like a good feed.Back in the day the fish meal in ewe nuts used to be great for putting milk into springing ewes.

On average are ewe nuts much different in price than this time last year?.....

tom_k

Using Grennan elite 20% as I have for the last 2 yrs. Dehulled soya first ingredient.

Paying 330/tonne collected in small bags, best theyd do, paid 320/tonne last year.

brownswiss

eire23 wrote: »

Using the aurivo 20% protein nut here as well, 310 in bulk. Find in far better than the excel ewe and lamb nut

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Yes I can not understand why people are feeding the xl in preference to the 20% Lactating nut... No comparison in quality

brownswiss

Westernrock wrote: »

I thought the Excel ewe with lamb was the 20% nut? ��

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I think they call it the XL to fool farmers. That is the nut they want to push

brownswiss

roosky wrote: »

Just off phone to Aurivo

Ewe & lamb XL 19% CP and 1.12 UFL
Ewe lactating 20%CP and 1.14 UFL

€20 a tonne in diff, to me at they are very very similar and I couldn't justify the extra €2/tonne


The ingrediants are Maize, Wheat, Soya bean, distillers, hoya hulls, barley, minerals, mollasses

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The Lactating is a better nut . Soya should be number 1 and I would really question why Wheat is number 2 in the 19% XL...

You could feed a little less of the good feed

orm0nd

Soya is a top p source but ideally you should have more than 1 in a mix to get max benefit.

eire23

Had these two dockets lying around for comparisons sake if anyone is interested

roosky

brownswiss wrote: »

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Yes I can not understand why people are feeding the xl in preference to the 20% Lactating nut... No comparison in quality

Ewe & lamb XL 19% CP and 1.12 UFL
Ewe lactating 20%CP and 1.14 UFL

Thats the difference there very very little in it.....they have a regular ewe and lamb nut which is just saw dust i would bother with it

razor8

Personally would judge it by percentages. Anything with maize, soya & barley is a very good feed imo

390kid

Feeding Kiernans 20% ewe and lamb here 8.80 a bag here find it good enough. Think it’s 1.08 ufl