bulk purchasing pig feed?

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Hi
Wondered if anyone could give me some advice on buying guinea pig feed in bulk? I have 9 guinea pigs,7 of which are youngsters, but as they are growing so is my food bill! My local feed merchant only sells small bags of complete feed and I want to start buying in bulk to make it more economical. I'm in the South Cheshire, North Staffordshire area, so if anyone knows of a local feed merchant who sells in bulk, please get in touch.
In the Piglopedia book, it suggests feeding horse feed. This would work out MUCH cheaper, but does anyone else do this?
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horse and goat feed doesn't have VAT added on, so normally 15-20Kg bags work out around £7-£10 - much cheaper. The best place to go for something like that would be a local equestrian feed merchants, or farm shop.

But you have to be very careful, as you have to make sure that what you're feeding them contains everything they require. My feed was recommended to me by a friend, who has used it for about 10 years, so I know that it isn't lacking in anything.

feed merchants normally sell guinea pig or rabbit food in bulk as well, but they're generally a bit more expensive.
 
depends on what you looking for...
If you looking for hay - you need contact with farms/horses suppliers.
I bought 20kg of hay for 20 pounds delivered.... but I got very bad allergy reaction and have to put all in rubbish bin due to not able to use it.

If you looking for pellets I tried many of them.Most of them rubbish (read posts about GERTY) pigs eats only certain peaces and most things going to waste.
I gave Burgess excel (taste nuggets and black carrots+oregano) Selective and Wagg premium.
I checked and found that my pigs eats maximum 10gr of dry food per day and fact is that vitamins (eg C ) can stays maximum 3 months in dry food can tell you how much maximum you can buy at once.
9 pigs - 90gr a day - 3 months 90 days 8100 gr.It is 4 bags 2kg each :).
Normally I try buy from manufacturer.

Also if you keep food long time that risk that food moth can start live there.
 
kotov said:
9 pigs - 90gr a day - 3 months 90 days 8100 gr.It is 4 bags 2kg each :).
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so for 4 bags of 2kg Burgess...at, what are they now?...£5.99? ish? that's over £20 on 8kg's of food.

I pay £8 for a 15kg bag, £7 for a 20kg bag...and £11 for readigrass...plus I may start adding bran to it...which is about £5 for a 20kg bag. All of which lasts me 2-3 months (readigrass lasts forever!) for 20 pigs.

so roughly £10 a month on feed.
 
Animed direct sell Vet Pet ( £19.72 ) and Burgess Excel ( £17.83 ) in 10 kg bags and Pet Planet have Supreme Science Selective in 10 kgs bags ( £22.49 ).
Hope that helps. :)
 
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