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Re: Would You Give Your Pets/Animals Out Of Date Food?

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Mups, They are two weeks out of date and it's a 20kg bag! A bag usually lasts a month.
The bag states, 'Best Before', not 'Use By', so l thought they might be ok?
The hens eat much worse when scratching about in the garden! In fact, there was a dead mole in the coop the other day and l bet they had a few pecks at that!!
If it says "best before" then I would say the feed will be OK to feed your poultry.
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11-06-2017, 07:30 PM
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Re: Would You Give Your Pets/Animals Out Of Date Food?

Best before is often used on dry or canned goods and it simply means that the product is at its best before that date , after the bbd it will gradually start to lose flavour and quality.
A use by date is for fresh items and is more to do with food safety ie on meat or fish readymeals etc.
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Re: Would You Give Your Pets/Animals Out Of Date Food?

I am absolutely thrilled! Countrywide Country Stores are giving me three bags of Layers Pellets ...free!

There's more to this story since l last posted but l won't bore you!!
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Re: Would You Give Your Pets/Animals Out Of Date Food?

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I am absolutely thrilled! Countrywide Country Stores are giving me three bags of Layers Pellets ...free!

There's more to this story since l last posted but l won't bore you!!


Wow! That's darn good of 'em, Art. 20kg bags?
I bet you sweet-talked them.

Did they ever say if the other bag was safe?
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Wow that is really good of them certainly means you will be a return customer. Service is a rare thing these days and you seem to have found a company that still believes in it
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Re: Would You Give Your Pets/Animals Out Of Date Food?

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Wow! That's darn good of 'em, Art. 20kg bags?
I bet you sweet-talked them.

Did they ever say if the other bag was safe?
Yes, Mups, three 20k bags! Aren't l lucky, l'm thrilled!
This is what happened, I sent an email to them saying, l felt I was wrongly advised but was it safe to feed my hens out of date food.
The next day, l received an email at 11am, saying 'Good Afternoon'! It didn't address me by my name nor give me the name of the person who sent the email! It just listed a list of their trading terms!
I found this unacceptable and unprofessional and rang the company to tell them so! I spoke to someone in their Customer Services Dept who was shocked by the response l had received and said she would investigate.
A lovely man rang me yesterday and today rang me again with this outcome.
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Good for you for seeing it through.

A good outcome.
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That's a brilliant outcome, but yes I would and do feed out of date foods, entire family eat out of date foods so the dogs are no different.
 
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