I'm trying to find a good supplier of  frozen meats. I've tried local butchers with no luck. I refuse to use Landywoods but I contacted TPMS two or three months ago who said that if I oredered 120llb worth they could deliver on a Friday. Saved up and last week went out and brought a brand spanking new freezer that would hold that amount , eagerly phoned up TPMS only to be told they'd been a mistake and I would have to order 500llb  anyone want to buy a freezer lol :rolleyes:

Prize choice  are not keen on delivering  as I don't have an affix and they don't see why I can't order it through a shop, 100 odd pounds worth????? I doubt that. They don't let you have it cheaper unless you have an affix so bulk buying from them is a waste of time. It seems you have to live in the Midlands to Barf

hiya - have you looked at Berriewoods?

http://www.berriewoodwholesale.co.uk/pages/berriewood-frozen-food-1211.htm

There min. order is £30 and they delivery weekly - check them out - you may find they deliver to you?

Have used them for over a month now and very happy with the service.

Where in the country are you Llama88?

can i ask why you wont use Landywoods please

I just placed my first order with Prize Choice a couple weeks ago. I have two dogs and am not a breeder. I spent £85 and they happily delivered to the Newcastle area (a lovely labrador helped!) Another person I walk with placed her first order for just under £60 and also had no problems. Are you in the deep south?

Is it just me or am I very lucky ? I get so much stuff from my butchers and the majority of it is free
I can get two lamb breasts for £1 , free pigs trotters, chicken carcasses, bones , and pet mince. The only thing I normally have to but is tripe which I get frozen as could stomach fresh tripe, that is beyond my limits :D :D

I have about four different butchers I can get all of this within about a ten mile radius.

I struggle with butchers, all I can get is pigs trotters !!  I buy all of my stuff from landywoods, I share an order with someones else as I dont have enough freezer space (since my chest freezer died :( ) we get it delievered monthly and ive never had an issue with them.

Do you struggle because they say they don't have anything ? One thing I sussed out is the they all have different times of the week for deliveries and also different times for preparing their joints etc and so once I sussed that out I know which butchers to go to. They all have said as well I can pre order everything (even the free stuff) so they will keep it for me rather than give or sell it to other people ( I am not that organised and normally go when we are low on things if I am about during the week :D )

One thing though is that I have to suffer the same joke whenever I ask have they got pigs trotters. The standard answer from them all is ' no it is just the way I walk' :D :D :D

lol @ pigs trotters :D

The butchers round my way dont seem to actually "butcher" occasionally I can get a marrowbone.  The farm shop do their own butchering and he did say to call in on certain days but they only seem to have pigs trotters, I dont think I could bear them :(

Whilst on the subject of BARF could you remind me what percentage you feed for body weight ? Ive been trying to fatten one of mine up so just feed him as much as he will eat, ive just changed the other one off autarky and put him back on BARF but he is prone to putting on weight, I just didnt want to starve him !!

With all things Barf the first few times on things that you think will repulse you do get easier. i was very uncomfortable at first with trotters and used to squeel like a pigs when I first held one :D :D It does get easier and now I am quite happy and laugh at the girls as the carry trotter around in their mouths and call them trooter chops :D :D

http://www.bregorreyglens.co.uk/nutrition.html#GLENDIET

This is a very good site and I do as they do feed what suits my lot and stick to what I feel suits them and gauge the amounts on how they look rather than stick to weights of food as a rule :)

  
Mojo, if you search Landywoods on here, you'll find a few people who won't use them. I used to use them but after my dogs were ill twice , the fact they would take an order and tell me they would let me know the delivery date but then didn't so I'd come home to find defrosted cases of meat on my drive, which had also been split.. presumably where the driver had dropped them and not bothered to pick them up. Then there was the fact the food was covered in slime and I had to remove plastic tags, like the ones you get in clothes,  from every single wing, leg etc

Thanks for the replies, I'll look at the Berriwood site. I'm very envious of all these nice butchers some of you have! I'm on the Suffolk/Norfolk/Cambs and Lincs border so you'd think I'd be able to find somewhere ??

I'm surprised the Prize Choice people gave you trouble. You'd think they would deliver there. On their website the only requirement they list is minimum £50. They are the only folks who deliver to my area.

We have a few butchers around but I haven't gone whole hog (sorry, couldn't help myself :-D) on raw feeding yet. The couple times I've given my dog a RMB like chicken wings or lamb shanks the results were terrifying. Which is odd because my big dog can now eat everything without stomach upset and has never had any trouble with the rabbit carcasses they munch on the fields. I thought I'd start with raw mince and chunks.

just wondered i have been thinking of changing over feeding my dogs to raw and have been looking at a few companies, the thing that puts me of is that i am a veggies , i do give them raw meat and bones occansionaly and boy do they love it.

im a veggie too (well a fake one - I eat fish )  the raw meat doesnt bother me at all, the smell of some the stuff can be a bit off putting though !!

It was the turkey necks that got me - they really do resemble something quite rude

As a rule I do feed by how they look, just needed an idea with Alfie as although I want to keep him trim he always acts half starved and I dont want to feel that im starving the poor soul  :rolleyes: Will have a look at that site, thanks. 

When I started my two looked like telly tubbies It was a combination of pure facination watching them devour things and that they always wanted more food not because the were hungry but because they loved it so much they wanted more :rolleyes: I soon wised upto it and slimmed them down again :D :D It is very common for people to do this so I ahve heard :D

He is getting 2lb of meat a day at the moment so will see how he gets on. 

I get about 10 bags of waste from my butchers every two weeks but this is mainly rmb's so I get tripe/ hearts etc. from used to be Landywoods and then Berriewoods!  Have to travel a bit but a 'traditional' butcher is a rare breed these days!

Unlike you Lucy sadly it isn't free but £1.00 per bag - good quality stuff - and the dogs love it!

I didn't think you could feed pork??????????????

I have a chicken farmer as a friend and she provides all my chicken carcesses and the fat and inners, necks etc etc. My butcher provides everything he doesn't want but have not been taking the trotters etc.

I am lucky as I get all of this free, so just veg, fruit, cheese, yoghurt and supplements to buy. We have chickens so free eggs too.

Yes pork is fine :)

Your rather lucky butchers round here cater for wimps.

Prize choice deliver to me and i have no affix... they have delivered to me for over a year now, all you have to do is order more htan £50 worth.

I wanted to order over 120 poundof food and  it came to well over £50! maybe it  was just
the person I spoke to on the day?

That very much sounds like an error.. unless you were wanting trade/breeder prices which of course they wont do if you have no affix/shop/business.... (or they THOUGHT that was what you were wanting...).

I have honestly had nothing but top quality product and service from them, theres been ONE error in an order the entire time ive been using them and that was an agency driver rather than one of their own, failing to offload two boxes of meat.... was delivered the following week with no problems.

I would give them another ring or email them and explain what happened before and how you are confused.

Em

yes thanks perhaps I will. I didn't ask for trade prices but the girl just said I could get it from retail, when I pointed out retail outlets never  stock the complete range or hold that amount of stock, she just said  they are supposed to order it in if a customer asks! Not very likely, it would be a bit hit and miss and she kept banging on that there would be  a delivery charge, well yes I expected that and it would still be cheaper then my petrol costs.

Had a delivery from Berriwoods, very  impressed  but then they are pricy. I've had an email from  Durham animal feeds which says they'll deliver, so I might try them too.

Well thought would take a closer look at prize choice as I thought they were one of the most expensive?  And it clearly states on there home delivery that its £50 plus delivery min. order - so what on earth that girl was talking about to you ?

http://www.prizechoice.co.uk/order-pet-food/home-delivery.php

May give them a try too now!

I am in Fife and get my Natures choice and prize choice no problem whatsoever. The guy even sticks the boxes in my freezer for me.

Ditto Blue... I really can only think it must have been an error or misunderstanding, they are SO good, sometimes ive had the driver pick up cash and put the order in the freezer!

Once my card was maxed out so they phoned to say that they would like their money... they were SO polite 'ooh we must have taken the number down wrong'... so kind about it as it was a potentially embarrassing thing. Just lovely!

See, i am not made of money and im sure there are cheaper suppliers out there.... but to me, customer service is bloody important and they win, hands down, every time!

(and no i dont work for them, rofl!)