Price of Aubiose

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I've just done the annual clean out of the Aubiose deep litter in the run. It makes marvellous top dressing for the flower beds. I re-ordered 6 more bales from our local stables/farm shop at £10 per bale plus £1.80 delivery, total £61.80. Th were apologetic about charging for delivery and said it would be free if I ordered more than 10 items in total.
Compared this with Omlet prices of £13 per bale, = £78, plus Parcel Force delivery of £20.50, total £98.50. More than half as expensive again! Well worth trying to find a local equestrian supplier if you can.
 
I've been ordering it from Omlet and will definitely have a look around for a local equestrian supplier like you say. It is a bit pricey from there but I have to say it's exellent stuff! I think I'm changing it more frequently than needed as well though I'm only putting down 10kg at a time which makes a fairly shallow layer in the 8sq m in the coop (they have a couple of sqm out the back that's open to the rain.)
 
I buy Aubiose at Rokers, near Guildford, until recently it was £8 a bale, had risen in price last time I bought it, but only by a small amount.
Having tried everything else, I think I shall stick to it.
 
The Aubiose website has a list of suppliers here
http://www.aubiose.co.uk/stockists.php
If one is near enough, it would be worth getting a couple in the car and not paying delivery, unless delivery is practically free, like my stockist. I do think that £13 per bale is a very high price to pay, plus delivery. If my supplier can sell it at £10 delivered, some people must have very high profit margins on it.
My run is 12 sq metres and I reckon to put down 3 bales when it's empty and swept, ie about a bale per 4 sq metres, to give 4 inches deep, soft and warm for them to sit on and dig in. I stack the spares round the edges, against the winter tarpaulins, good insulation, which doesn't reduce floor space as the girls can sit up on them. During a year, I probably use 2 bales in the coop, which go on the compost heap as they end up 50% poo and thus are a very good accelerant and fertiliser for compost,esp. If mixed with grass clippings etc. Another bale gets used as top up on the floor when it gets a bit thinned out by poo picking. I've found that Aubiose lasts longer if you put it down quite thickly to start with, and of course if it's in a dry covered run. Any poo I miss because it's been scratched in becomes totally dessicated and eventually becomes powdery, and doesn't smell and is inoffensive. Over a permeable membrane, at least no earth gets dug up into it to make it dirtier. So £60 a year for six bales = £5 a month, not too bad for six hens,
The hens don't appreciate my efforts changing the bedding as the new stuff goes down all white,whereas the old stuff had gone brownish with age. They're very suspicious of the change in colour to their living room carpet!
 
£8.50 at my supplier just up the road which I think is pretty good, on the other hand they only do Heygates growers pellets with ACS which is a total pain. We used to have a group of chickens who wouldn't come out of the house for an hour after I had put Stalosan down because it turned the ground red, as far as they were concerned it was the red dust of doom.
 
50% poo?! I'm going very wrong! Got a bale and a half at the mo - going to put that down and check out the link for local suppliers. Thanks!
 
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