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I have just finished cleaning out my 16000 bird shed following depletion of the flock. As always, it was unmitigated hell! I do the job myself with an excellent gang of workers and it always takes about two weeks to complete the bulk with a further week with a reduced workforce to prepare everything for the next crop.

This time all the usual problems inevitably occurred. The heavens opened just when the muck was being carted, thus leaving a trail down the drive and public road. My neighbours rather wearily asked me why I always cleaned out during a wet period. One of the visiting workers crashed his car, or rather his girlfriends car the day before we started. Since he was Polish and had virtually no English I became insurance adviser, counsellor for the girlfriends wrath, and letter writer to the DVLA and his bank. We had a power cut at one stage and thus ran out of water as we are on a borehole. The hired machinery was not as reliable as I had been assured it would be and needed constant tinkering and of course the overall smell and dirt was dreadful. BUT it is now completed, the breakages were virtually nil and the she...

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Feed Mill Report

A couple of months ago, we were worried about both soya and wheat. Last month we said soya was looking dangerous, this month that prediction came true. At the time of writing soyabeans closed at above $12/bushel (36.7 bushels = 1 tonne) for the first time since October – that was when the markets were falling in the credit crunch sell-off after the peak of $16/Bushels last July. In early March soya bean meal was $256/tonne, and is now $390; the peak was $456 last July.

Feed compounders have been in a difficult position so far this year. May Non-GM hipro has averaged over £300/tonne – a historically high price when prices should be lower due to the South American harvest; so few compounders have had the confidence to buy forward. Then came the prediction that Argentina's soya crop is closer to 30mt than the 45-50mt initially expected. In May prices shot up mainly due to the shortage of US soya and due to a weakening $. As the $ weakens, more money is invested into commodities. In summary, there is less soya supply than expected, US stocks will be at near historic lows in the autumn, the funds are taking larger than us...

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Average Pullet Price
Pullet Rearers in the UK

Tom Barron Ltd Catforth, Preston, Lancashire PR4 0HQ Tel 01772 690111

Country Fresh Pullets Morton, Oswestry, Shropshire SY10 8BH Tel 01691 831020

J. S. R. Services Ltd 3 Isla Road, Altamount Blairgowrie, Perthshire, Scotland PH10 6RR Tel 07831 541703

Blue Barns Hatchery Ouston Villa Farm, Pelton, Chester-le-Street, County Durham DH2 1LN Tel 0191 410 2809

Hinchliffes Sunnyside Farm, Netherton Moor Road, Huddersfield West Yorkshire Tel 01484 661231

Noble Foods Ltd The Moor, Bilsthorpe, Notts NG22 8TS Tel 01623 870384

Potters Poultry Willey Fields Farm, Willey, Rugby, Warwickshire CV23 0SQ Tel 01455 553234

Peter Dodds Pullets Hillside Poultry Farm Newmarket Road Royston, Herts Tel 01763 243667

Allan Hood Shootash Poultry Farm Salisbury Road Shootash, Romsey, Hampshire SO51 6GA Tel 01794 522159

M.J. Hayward & Sons Green Farm, North Gorley, Fordingbridge, Hants SP6 2PB Tel 01425 652007

Fridays Ltd Chequer Tree Farm, Cranbrook, Kent, TN17 3PN Tel 01580 710200

Farm Fresh Hatcheries Ltd 132 Blackgate Lane, Tarleton, Preston Lancs PR4 6UU Tel 01772 814081

Jansen UK Leighbridge Works, Calverleigh, Tiverton. Devon EX16 8BE Tel 01884 243135


 
Supermarket Prices
Updated 23th June 2009
 
GBP
ALDI
   
Free Range
Free range medium (x6)
.00
   1.29
Standard
Standard medium (x10)
.00
   0.99
ASDA
   
Barn Eggs
Barn eggs (x12)
.00
   2.48
Barn eggs medium (x6)
.00
   1.37
Barn eggs very large (x6)
.00
   1.75
Free Range
Church Farm (mixed x6)
.11
   1.35
Columbus Omega 3 (x6)
.32
   1.66
Free range large (x12)
.06
   2.98
Free range large (x6)
.00
   1.52
Free range medium (x12)
.06
   2.64
Free range medium (x18)
.09
   3.27
Free range medium (x6)
.06
   1.42
Free range very large (x6)
.01
   2
Green Fields Shropshire large (x6)
.00
   1.2
Green Fields Shropshire medium (x6)
.00
   1.1
Happy Eggs large (x6)
.06
   1.77
Happy Eggs medium (x6)
.00
   1.57
James Potter free range eggs xl (x6)
.00
   1.99
Old Cotswold legbar mixed (x6)
.00
   1.98
Respectful large (x6)
.08
   1.44
Respectful medium (x6)
.10
   1.26
Organic
Organic large (x6)
.00
   2.05
Organic m/weight (x6)
.00
   3.72
Organic medium (x6)
.01
   1.82
Standard
Big and British extra large (x6)
.08
   1.63
Big and British mixed (x10)
.12
   2.2
Cooks value eggs (x30)
.00
   2.98
Smartprice large (x15)
.04
   1.45
Smartprice medium (x6)
.06
   0.88
Cash and Carry
   
Free Range
Bookers (1 pack of 5 doz m)
.00
   7.89
Bookers (8 packs of 10 medium)
.00
   6.32
Bookers (x10 medium)
.00
   0.86
Makro (Tray of 30)
.00
   4.45
Co-op
   
Free Range
Free range large (x12)
.14
   2.92
Free range large (x6)
.33
   1.52
Free range medium (x12)
.03
   2.58
Free range medium (x6)
.08
   1.36
Organic
Down to Earth Organic (x4)
.06
   1.25
Organic free range large (x6)
.07
   2.05
Organic free range medium (x6)
.04
   1.82
Iceland
   
Free Range
Free range large (x6)
.00
   1.25
Standard
Standard large (x15)
.00
   1.5
Marks and Spencer
   
Free Range
Free range large (x12)
.00
   2.89
Free range large (x6)
.17
   1.52
Free Range Medium (x6)
.08
   1.36
Organic
Organic extra large (x6)
.30
   2.59
Organic free range large (x6)
.06
   2.15
Organic medium (x6)
.10
   1.99
Organic Omega 3 (x6)
.00
   1.69
Morrisons
   
Free Range
Bronte Brown (x10)
.00
   2.89
Church Farm mixed weight (x6)
.00
   1.24
Columbus Omega 3 m/weight (x6)
.00
   1.39
Cornfed (x10)
.00
   2.69
Free range large (x12)
.06
   2.98
Free range large (x6)
.06
   1.58
Free range medium (x12)
.01
   2.58
Free range medium (x18)
.89
   3.18
Free range medium (x6)
.06
   1.42
Free range very large (x6)
.11
   1.99
Happy Eggs medium (x10)
.00
   2.65
Happy Eggs medium (x6)
.00
   1.52
Natures Nest (x6)
.00
   1.68
Old Cotswold Legbar mixed weight (x6)
.00
   1.95
Yorkshire (x6)
.00
   1.58
Standard
British eggs large (x12)
.00
   2.62
Large eggs (x6)
.00
   1.43
Medium eggs (x6)
.00
   1.37
Smartprice medium eggs (x6)
.00
   0.82
Very large eggs (x6)
.00
   1.69
Value Eggs
Medium (x12)
.00
   1.19
Medium (x15)
.00
   1.45
Netto
   
Free Range
Free range large (x6)
.00
   1.29
Standard
Standard large (x6)
.00
   0.99
Standard medium (x10)
.00
   1.39
Standard mixed (x15)
.00
   1.45
Sainsbury's
   
Free Range
Free range medium (x6)
.00
   1.36
Goldenlay Omega 3 (x6)
.01
   1.64
Mabel Pearmans Burford Brown (x6)
.00
   1.95
Old Cotswold Legbar (x6)
.00
   1.95
Somerfield
   
Free Range
Free range large (x6)
.07
   1.52
Free range medium (x12)
.13
   2.68
Free range medium (x6)
.15
   1.43
Organic
Organic free range medium (x6)
.00
   1.96
Tesco
   
Free Range
Big & Fresh (x6)
.00
   2.15
Free Range large (x12)
.06
   2.98
Free Range large (x6)
.05
   1.47
Free range medium (x12)
.06
   2.64
Free Range medium (x6)
.06
   1.42
Free range verge large (x6)
.00
   2.28
Goldenlay Omega 3 (x6)
.02
   1.66
Happy Eggs large (x6)
.00
   1.77
Happy Eggs medium (x6)
.00
   1.57
Organic
Organic free range large (x12)
.00
   3.69
Organic free range large (x6)
.00
   2.05
Organic free range medium (x6)
.00
   1.82
Organic medium (x12)
.00
   3.39
Standard Eggs
Big and Fresh (x10)
.01
   2
Big and Fresh (x6)
.00
   1.55
Value Eggs
Tesco Value (x10)
.00
   1
Tesco Value (x15)
.04
   1.45
Tesco Value (x6)
.06
   0.88
Waitrose
   
Free Range
Clarence Court Burford Browns (x6)
.00
   1.99
Clarence Court Old Cotswold Leg (x6)
.00
   1.99
Columbian Blacktail free range large (x12)
.06
   3.15
Columbian Blacktail free range large (x6)
.04
   1.69
Columbian Blacktail free range medium (x12)
.20
   2.75
Columbian Blacktail free range medium (x6)
.13
   1.42
Intelligent Eating Omega 3 (x6)
.00
   1.72
Waitrose free range very large (x6)
.04
   2.15
Organic
Columbian Blacktail Organic free range lg(x12)
.00
   4.35
Columbian Blacktail Organic free range lg(x6)
.06
   2.29
Columbian Blacktail Organic free range medium (x12)
.04
   3.99
Columbian Blacktail Organic free range medium (x6)
.43
   1.72

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