Cheap hay in the UK

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I'm looking to bulk buy enough hay for about six months or so. Does anyone have suggestions for places that do it cheap?
Also, besides it being cheap, it needs to be fairly wrapped up. We currently have small bags of hay from the local pet shop and seal them with clothes pegs in our living room, a big bin bag worth of hay would stink up the whole house. We don't have a place where a massive open bag of hay can live outside without getting damp or being invaded by bugs. We currently buy bags of timothy hay from the pet shop.

Basically, anyone know where you can bulk buy small bags of hay?
 
I buy my hay from b and m bargains if you have one of those in your local area? They sell small bags of meadow hay for £1 and small bags of Timothy hay with dandelion and marigolds for £1.99 They also sell big bags of meadow hay for around £3.50
 
I order 9kg bags from Timothy Hay - 2 at a time.
I don’t think you would class it as cheap, though it’s not as expensive as the pet shop bags
 
We usually buy hay from Amazon, they do packs with 3 bags of Pillow Wad meadow hay, though they've been out of stock lately. We had some good hay recently from Pet Planet too, about £5 for 4.75 kilos of meadow hay- if you spend over £40 there delivery would be free. We like smaller bags too and we usually buy enough for a month or two, or have some delivered on the Amazon subscribe and save deal regularly every month without needing to remember and reorder.
 
I get my hay from the farm a farm bale is £6. I have just invested in some hay bale bags to store they hay in. I buy 2 farm bales every 6-8 weeks or so but I have 5 piggies. When I had 2 piggies a farm bale would last around 4-5 months. I use the hay as bedding as well as for eating and I have outside piggies so I am using a lot of hay atm. Do you have a farm near you where you could get hay?
 
I buy from the company “dust free hay” as it’s good quality and never smells musty. Their soft hay is very good, their American Timothy too but pricy, their English Timothy is ok but not as good as the American. I buy English Timothy and soft hay, but the English Timothy is quite stalky and they only eat the fluffy bits, so lots of waste. They’ve accidentally once sent me a box of stalky hay, which I wouldn’t buy but was ok for bedding - I wouldn’t recommend getting that.
 
Farm hay bales are brilliant. Excellent value and very good quality I’ve always found, I used to have a wheeliebin to store it in (a clean new one purchased for that specific purpose!) which worked really well.
 
PigglePuggle said:
We usually buy hay from Amazon, they do packs with 3 bags of Pillow Wad meadow hay, though they've been out of stock lately. We had some good hay recently from Pet Planet too, about £5 for 4.75 kilos of meadow hay- if you spend over £40 there delivery would be free. We like smaller bags too and we usually buy enough for a month or two, or have some delivered on the Amazon subscribe and save deal regularly every month without needing to remember and reorder.
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I've seen some of the Pillow Wad meadow hay in my local pet shop, but theirs seemed quite 'chopped' looking. Is the stuff you get from Amazon the same, or long stranded?
 
Nature's Own are really good and recommended to me on this forum. Depending on which hay you buy (mine love the Sweet Green Grass and I'm trying them with the Meadow Hay), it's roughly £3-4 for 3.5kg and it usually arrives within 2 days of ordering it. Spend more than £20 and delivery is free, and they also sell other lovely small animal treats which my piggies love - especially the hay cookies!
 
Janey said:
I've seen some of the Pillow Wad meadow hay in my local pet shop, but theirs seemed quite 'chopped' looking. Is the stuff you get from Amazon the same, or long stranded?
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The stuff from Amazon is quite long stranded and fluffy, good for edible bedding! Usually quite fresh and green too.
 
Janey said:
I've seen some of the Pillow Wad meadow hay in my local pet shop, but theirs seemed quite 'chopped' looking. Is the stuff you get from Amazon the same, or long stranded?
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I used to use PillowWad and whilst it was nice enough hay, I did find it was always quite short. I now use Natures Own (mentioned further up) and I and my pigs love it. It is natural though and some bags are shorter than others etc.
 
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