Price of sunflower hearts (1 Viewer)

Hi everyone, just wondering how much you pay for your sunflower hearts. I currently pay £1.99 per kg from either wilkos or local market hall.Any cheaper anywhere else?

I buy mine in bulk by that I mean a 20 kg sack and pay £30 for it = £1.50. I get it from a friend that does pet food supplies and get it delivered to my door.

There are probably places that do them cheaper than I can get them. But the thing is the more you get the cheaper it is so if you have somewhere to store a larger amount it would work out better for you. A large lidded plastic container would be ideal and should hold about 5kg or so.

michael23 said:

Hi everyone, just wondering how much you pay for your sunflower hearts. I currently pay £1.99 per kg from either wilkos or local market hall.Any cheaper anywhere else?

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Michael, Taylors in South Wingfield sell large sacks of sunflower hearts and more besides and work out cheaper than buying small bags from Wilkos or any pet shop.

Marmot said:

I buy mine in bulk by that I mean a 20 kg sack and pay £30 for it = £1.50. I get it from a friend that does pet food supplies and get it delivered to my door.

There are probably places that do them cheaper than I can get them. But the thing is the more you get the cheaper it is so if you have somewhere to store a larger amount it would work out better for you. A large lidded plastic container would be ideal and should hold about 5kg or so.

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I keep my seed stock in a kitchen swing bin that holds about 25kg. For filling my feeders, I decant some into one of those tubs in which you buy 50 fat balls. This makes storage convenient, keeps the price down, but avoids a hernia when taking seed to the containers.

i bought a funnel from a local pet shop. it holds a litre in volume of seed, and has a valve in the spout so you can just use what you need without risk of overfilling stuff. its shaped like a big scoop too, so its easy to fill. i keep my feed in a big plastic swing lid bin.

I've just seen some in the 99p shop. they were Bill Oddie branded. Cant say how much in a bag, though.

Be aware that the sunflower hearts could come from Black Sunflower, or Striped Sunflower, or a mixture of the two. Black Sunflower has a higher oil content and therefore is preferable and worth more.

I looked into buying sunflower hearts from Black Sunflower recently, wholesale, and the price is basically £1 per kilo to the reseller. This seems to set an ultimate price floor of around £1.40 - £1.50 per kilo to the end consumer (e.g. see Brinvale, £1.45 per kilo delivered).

But for myself the ultimate origin is important. China exports sunflowers to Europe (I'm not sure if this is a recent occurrence) and personally I would not like my bird food to have been shipped half-way around the world, with the environmental impact that causes.

So I would buy from the RSPB as they ship their sunflowers from Europe in the most environmentally responsible way they can, otherwise I would use a supplier who can guarantee they have come from Europe or at worst the US.