Caz counts it down

DebtFree2012

What an amazing farrier and great to know too.

brizzledfw

You have some good people around you Caz..Robbie is a real gem

Well done on the sales..you are rocking and rolling into 2014

cazmanian_minx

Robbie is one of life's lovely people, yes

Another £360 banked today, I can now cover all the bills AND pay myself more than £50 on 1st Feb :T:T

One bit of bad news today, I was photographing the new antique brass headpins and thinking how lovely and straight they all were (usually headpins come in with about 10% of the bag a bit bent thanks to being squashed in transit) and realised that I'd got 80c thickness instead of the usual 70c. You wouldn't think that 0.1mm would make that much difference, but it makes them tougher to bend and puts the price up by about 25% I've got 40,000 antique brass ones and 60,000 silver plated ones to get rid of and I have a horrible feeling it's going to take a while. My fault entirely, I didn't specify on the order and forgot to double check the pro-forma they sent me for approval before manufacture started (which has 80c clearly printed on it). Mind you, I've just checked both my UK wholesalers and I'm going to be selling them cheaper than they do, so if I can find someone who wants them, I might be OK.

Another £30 sent to the target old Egg card. I have £127 left in my NatWest account and I need to take £120 out on Friday to pay for the 40 bales of hay I'm (hopefully) picking up on Saturday - my neighbour is free on Saturday morning to drive me, I'm just waiting to hear back from the hay seller to check he'll be there and he'll have them baled for me (he stores in large rounds and then re-bales to small square as required).

mfmaybe

Huh? Never heard of re-baling! Every day's a school day it seems. Robbie does indeed sound a gem, that's a good point about wet feet. I do remember now last time I was dealing with a suspected abscess, I was told to only poultice for a few days if nothing started to come out.

cazmanian_minx

It's quicker for him to take big bales off his fields, so when someone wants small he gets his square baler set up in the shed and just feeds big bales through it until he's got enough small! He charges a bit more - £3 for a small square as opposed to £20 for a large round - but I couldn't get large rounds down to my hay shed, let alone squeeze them through the door!

mfmaybe

:eek: at the price. I pay £40 for a large round bale. Quality is always top notch but even so. I may need to rethink my supplier

cazmanian_minx

I suspect the haulage from Quoybrae to wherever you are might make you prefer the £40 KW1 5UN is the postcode for the nearby mart if you want to stick it into one of those direction-finding website and have a giggle! I've paid that price for the last two years and I always book my hay for the autumn when I pick up my last load - in fact, I might book it this weekend because he sold out in 8 days this year :eek: and local prices are now through the roof because despite an excellent haymaking summer, everyone's sold out. The year before it was so bad that people were hauling loads in from as far away as Aberdeenshire.

The boys have actually done really well with their hay consumption this year. Mr Minx's hay feeders have cut the wastage to almost nil. I have 70 to collect still and 16 in the shed out of an original 150 ordered, so hopefully I'm going to have some in the shed over the summer.

JustAboutThere

cazmanian_minx wrote: »

It's quicker for him to take big bales off his fields, so when someone wants small he gets his square baler set up in the shed and just feeds big bales through it until he's got enough small! He charges a bit more - £3 for a small square as opposed to £20 for a large round - but I couldn't get large rounds down to my hay shed, let alone squeeze them through the door!

Safer too. I'm prepared to be proved wrong, but I seem to remember the inventor if the big, round hay bales was killed when one fell on top of him.

cazmanian_minx

Don't move, don't breathe, don't speak - I am within a gnat's whisker of actually being able to pay myself my normal amount on 1st Feb!! £355 banked today, which left me needing about £525 to make it. I currently have £172 in PayPal and just over £40 in credit card payments. I've booked on a huge delivery of stock this afternoon, nearly all of it things that have been out of stock for a while, so if I'm very lucky, sales of those will take off and I'll make my target.

We are go for hay on Saturday and I have no idea what's up with my horse, but Merlin is now 'footy' rather than lame - he's walking out level, with his usual stride length, just being careful about putting his feet down. I realised this evening that he's been off his magnesium/brewer's yeast supplement for a week (Parcelforce 24 from Orkney to here takes about 4 days thanks to it going via Aberdeen - a detour of several hundred miles!) and the magnesium does help his feet, but it couldn't have made him that sore that fast without it...could it? My delivery arrived this evening anyway, so I'll restart him on it in the morning and see what happens.

DebtFree2012

Stranger things have happened!
PS - to that postcode, from my house, on a good trip - 8h 3mins! LOL