NOT ALL FARMING SUPPLIES COMPANIES ARE THE SAME
We’ve had an interesting few weeks in our new roles as chicken farmers – and it’s taught me quite a lot about the whole farming supplies industry.
Well, truth be told…we’re not really chicken farmers in the true sense of the term…unless a few chooks in the garden count?. Having said that however, we have still needed to learn a lot of new stuff about chicken farming (albeit on a tiny scale) and make sure we do the best for our ‘flock’.
And in doing the research, I discovered quite a lot about the different farm supplies companies.
Being novices, we needed a lot of help – and surprisingly, we got that help from some of the farm supplies professionals. But we did find out quite an interesting thing about the rural supplies companies that were the most helpful – they were the ones that had the most accessible, friendly, welcoming and personal websites.
The organisations that resonated with us were the ones who had websites that were welcoming, that had a personal touch and that provided an insight into how the business operated – whereas the ones that appeared to be large organised only concerned with doing bulk deals, didn’t get our vote.
We found that we were more likely to buy our chicken coop from a farm supplies company that was run by people who had been farmers themselves, like the FarmCo in Western Australia – because they had actually used the products and understood them, whether it was chicken feed, vitamins, abrasives or brass fittings.
We also found out that even if you’re a farmer in the middle of nowhere, you can still get your farming supplies delivered….depending on who you buy from, of course.
And now that we’ve had a host of professional advice – we’re off to show everyone that we’re not chicken, we’re chicken farmers!
