Massive incoming grain and food shortages

[Ascholten]

You are so naive. It is aliens in flying saucers that run the world. Not people.

Saucers are SOOO prejudice against the obelisk beings....

 

[bukesbabe]

My dog does get real boiled chicken daily regardless of what I buy. But not sure about giving him only that. I would like to try my hat at making my own recipe, but not sure how cost effective that is with the current state of affairs without purchasing a cow. Guess I should look into it.

I’ve made my own dog food for 5 years now, the best decision I’ve ever made for them. Now I’m looking into making my own chicken feed, that seems a whole lot more complicated the more I dig….

 

[Ascholten]

I’ve made my own dog food for 5 years now, the best decision I’ve ever made for them. Now I’m looking into making my own chicken feed, that seems a whole lot more complicated the more I dig….

whats your recipe for the dog food?

aaron

 

[Iluveggers]

Self-reliance comes in many forms. Today, after a week of temps with lows in the 20s, and a few inches of snow that melted, I picked this for dinner. Enough kale to sautee with beans, and arugula for 3 salads. Doesn’t seem like much, but that would cost $8 at the grocery store. Do that twice a week, for a month, and saving $60 on only greens. The garlic, onions, squash & potatoes stored help, along with the canned tomatoes, relish & beans. Even if you can grow one thing, it helps. I found a local chicken feed aource (& have 2 backups at the ready). Find & support your local farmers. If crap hits the fan, you’ll have contacts and people who you can barter with as needed.

 

[Ascholten]

Find & support your local farmers. If crap hits the fan, you’ll have contacts and people who you can barter with as needed.

Another thing one can do is, look around, there are a lot of local 'food clubs' where people get together and grow stuff, I grow one or two items, you grow something else, someone else grows something else. Just grow one or two items, that way it's EASIER to take care of, you got ONE job, now do it well. Then when they are ripe, they all get together and share with the group what they grew, so at the end you get all this different food.

Ive seen farms out here that do similar too, you go in and work for like 4 hours a week or whatever it is growing plants, and at the end of the season you take home a bunch of food, and some of the other food goes to food banks and places to feed the less fortunate. This way you don't have to pay money, if you are poor as an example, BUT if you are willing to put in a few hours a week of what is really fairly light work, you can still get help feeding the family.

Sadly its amazing how many dirt bags all want to come in begging for all kinds of free gimme dat's but the moment you ask them to pick up a shovel, blink your eyes and they are out the door.

Point being though, do an internet search, and if there is not a group around you who does stuff like this, what an awesome thing it would be for you to help start !!

Aaron

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I just bought a bag of gold, at least the price suggested there was gold in it.
A 50lb. bag of scratch grains was 22.90 and about 25.50 with tax.
It is a good thing I don't use much.

I think there's profiteering going on. We are 80-90% self sufficient in wheat, but producers or middlemen seem to be using the international price (as if they were buying it on the open market, where they could sell it of course) to set the rate anyway.

There is profiteering. A congressional hearing a couple weeks ago brought to light that 55% of inflation is going to increased corporate profits, not costs.

Wouldn't surprise me, it's blamed on the RUS vs UKR war supposedly we get most our grain from there. Prices are literally going up every week, 50p this week, £1 next week. UK is struggling.

(Last year we were celebrating being so self-sufficient with grains like you say, now magically we cannot produce enough?)

Big time farms saying they're having massive issues with stock and cost too, tried increasing price of eggs in supermarkets but the supermarkets are refusing to pay them any more.

I literally cannot find turkey nor any game bird starter anywhere without paying £50 a bag (last year was like £14? Most places had it for £18-22 but all out of stock for foreseeable future). Getting to the point I may have to give in with my quail, I refuse to give them an inadequate food source.

I'm sure some shops have in-stock but I can't carry a 20kg bag home, don't drive and am unfortunately a complete loner.

That is tough, some stores here will split bags. Or you can take an empty bag and ask them to split a bag between the original and the one you brought.

I've no idea, moved to this area with the family about 3 years ago, don't know anyone or anything around here other than where our local pond is for wildfire photos

Do you have uber lyft or other ride services there?

 

[BrandonsBirbs]

I just bought a bag of gold, at least the price suggested there was gold in it.
A 50lb. bag of scratch grains was 22.90 and about 25.50 with tax.
It is a good thing I don't use much.


There is profiteering. A congressional hearing a couple weeks ago brought to light that 55% of inflation is going to increased corporate profits, not costs.

That is tough, some stores here will split bags. Or you can take an empty bag and ask them to split a bag between the original and the one you brought.

Do you have uber lyft or other ride services there?

Unfortunately nothing like that as our area isn't anywhere near a city, there's always taxis and things but I think after paying fares the total cost would probably be about £50. It is sad that we cannot even try and be more self-sufficient

 

[Ascholten]

I just seen that here as well, the scratch grains are through the roof!! The cracked corn is friggin high too, the deerhunters are not happy either ! It used to be a few dollars higher than the chicken pellets, now not only are the pellets almost 20 bucks a bag now, vs about 14 at the beginning of the year, but the scratch is 25 a bag.

I used to just kind of chalk it up to the price of having chickens when they would make a mess and crush the powdered food into the dirt, now I yell at them and will make them pick all that up and eat it pretty much before I refill their dish.

I find that if you keep them well fed with the pellets they WILL waste a lot and not care too much, but when the toss offs from the day before is the only source, they WILL carefully pick the grains up off the bottom board and out of the dirt where they threw them.

another thing I find that is helpful is Ill fill their dish about 7/8 to the top and then dunk it in water real quick and let it fillup. Then Ill hold the dish for about a minute for all the pellets to suck up the water and soften up. This is also good for the dust on the bottom of the bag, make a thick paste out of it instead of letting them grind it into the dirt and put it on a large plate. More gets eaten that way and less wasted. This way also means fewer refills on the water pail too, so less work in the long run.

Aaron

 

[Iluveggers]

I bought a rubber dog bowl to put my feeder in. Anything they spill goes into the bowl instead of on the ground. Every night, I just dump the dog bowl into the top of the feeder. I have NO waste now. Best $9 I’ve spent in awhile. My feed is a crumble. If there is dust left in pellets you could make a wet mash of it every couple of days instead.

 

[Ascholten]

I bought a rubber dog bowl to put my feeder in. Anything they spill goes into the bowl instead of on the ground. Every night, I just dump the dog bowl into the top of the feeder. I have NO waste now. Best $9 I’ve spent in awhile. My feed is a crumble. If there is dust left in pellets you could make a wet mash of it every couple of days instead.

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IM going to have to give that a try but knowing my witches, they will stand on top of it trying to knock it over to get to the food in the middle. Have to cement it to the brick on the bottom

Aaron