Poult prices - best guess?
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I've been quoted £6.50 for pheasant poults by our usual supplier, and have heard prices between £6.00 and £8.00 being talked about.
The percentage of released birds shot will depend on many things, I work on 33% for budgeting but the actual return has been nearer 40% over the last few seasons.
The percentage of released birds shot will depend on many things, I work on 33% for budgeting but the actual return has been nearer 40% over the last few seasons.
Thanks. What kind of shot/bird ratios do you have eg do you have expert guns shooting 2/1 or more average guns shooting 3/1 or 4/1?
Andy seatrout
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I phoned my game rearer on Tuesday / he said budget on £5 to £7 for this season…. Grower pellets are over £10 a bag, wheats hovering at £240 a tonne
Anything over £6 and you're being ripped off.
The price for a poult last year before the increase was £4- £4.30. After the feed/oil/gas/electric prices went up the price rose to £5.50 - £6.00 for a 6wk pheasant poult.
Since then the feed price have stabilized, I'm told gas and oil prices have come down.
I posed this question to one of my suppliers and the only reason he can give for a further increase this year is because of over wintering costs that weren't incurred last year, he has a point, but not to the extent people are trying to charge.
£5.45 - £5.60 pheasants, from French suppliers
£7.20 - £7.80 for French sourced partridges
£7.20 - £8.90 for Spanish sourced partridges
The price for a poult last year before the increase was £4- £4.30. After the feed/oil/gas/electric prices went up the price rose to £5.50 - £6.00 for a 6wk pheasant poult.
Since then the feed price have stabilized, I'm told gas and oil prices have come down.
I posed this question to one of my suppliers and the only reason he can give for a further increase this year is because of over wintering costs that weren't incurred last year, he has a point, but not to the extent people are trying to charge.
£5.45 - £5.60 pheasants, from French suppliers
£7.20 - £7.80 for French sourced partridges
£7.20 - £8.90 for Spanish sourced partridges
HonestJohn
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£7.50-£8 I've been quoted. Sentiment on price increase more around risk than actual cost of rearing. Ie. with avian influenza and risk of economic collapse either through geo-politics/war/etc, or recession, prices need to compensate for potential large write-off's, but also for book losses in past season(s). Should all come together fine of course, all birds sold, no virus breakouts, range rover brigade all show up as expected, it could be a bumper crop year for rearers.
Foxyboy43
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Hmmm. This is an interesting post for me when seen against the chaos of the last couple of seasons.
In discussions with others we all agreed that the dependency on “foreign” birds was akin to Europe’s dependency on Russian gas - dare I say putting all your eggs into ……..
There was a school of thought that this would result in a prompt return to those far off halcyon days when keepers/shoots caught up hens and used brooders/bantams to rear their own birds but from what I can see if the french birds come on stream again that is not likely to happen on any great scale.
Question is - why not? Are we spoiled by the heretofore ready access of foreign birds and presumably the attractive economics? I know that even as far away as NI birds were being brought in from France but I struggle to understand the reasons - are they really that much cheaper/more convenient or are we all getting just a little bit lazy?
Interesting to hear other’s views on this……
In discussions with others we all agreed that the dependency on “foreign” birds was akin to Europe’s dependency on Russian gas - dare I say putting all your eggs into ……..
There was a school of thought that this would result in a prompt return to those far off halcyon days when keepers/shoots caught up hens and used brooders/bantams to rear their own birds but from what I can see if the french birds come on stream again that is not likely to happen on any great scale.
Question is - why not? Are we spoiled by the heretofore ready access of foreign birds and presumably the attractive economics? I know that even as far away as NI birds were being brought in from France but I struggle to understand the reasons - are they really that much cheaper/more convenient or are we all getting just a little bit lazy?
Interesting to hear other’s views on this……
Andy seatrout
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My local keeper ( who I won’t name as he’d not want me to) rears the old fashioned way my grandad used to do it; catches up, rears over 12,000 pheasants….. rotating egg incubators, all the heat lamps for chicks, lots of work but surety of supply… whilst more costly to do this than buy in- I suspect ( but don’t know) they were able to do this last season and still charge the ‘going rate’ for pheasant per bird…. Thereby hopefully turning a health profit….
You’d have though more would have dusted off the equipment and had a go this year. But you can understand why the drier and warmer climate in France gives you earlier laying and the advantage of having mature birds by the 1st October…. I think they’ve just amended the ‘bird flu restriction time’ to one month rather than three…. So we shall see.
You’d have though more would have dusted off the equipment and had a go this year. But you can understand why the drier and warmer climate in France gives you earlier laying and the advantage of having mature birds by the 1st October…. I think they’ve just amended the ‘bird flu restriction time’ to one month rather than three…. So we shall see.
wabbit warren
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down here weve been told partridge poults would be a minimum of £8.00 but more likely to be £9-£10 and £3.80-£4.60 for ex-layer pheasants depending when we want them
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