That is why I try to get it to last all month! Not grown much here. It is like water, in a dry form!Wow
$5 here from a farmer... sometimes $3.50 if you pick it up in the field.
Not sure what it costs at a feed store.
Yes rounds are cheaper per lb but I don't have anyway to deal with them either.
Sometimes straw is more expensive than hay around here...more hay grown than wheat or oats around here.
Great idea, thanks!
If you raise broilers up on wire in a cage, the poop will be very hot. The used bedding from the layers has been composting in their coop for a while, and they mixed it with the bedding, so it is not as hot. I still age it a year in a pile before putting it on the garden. You can afford to sell your other items for less if you have great tomatoes, eggs bring people in, tomatoes make your profit. Our local Farmer's Market sells a tiny pint strawberry basket of cherry tomatoes for $5.00, tourists pay it happily, eat them all even before they leave the market.
One year I got over 100 pumpkins, some were moldy and went to compost. I took everything because I wanted to get next years too. Chickens don't like gourds, even the seeds, so they go in the compost too
300 pounds! That would be a no go here! I put a regular bale from the feed store on my hitch rack, it is low to the ground and the store guy puts it in, I drive it to where I want it and unload it. Usually under the carport on a pallet, to try to keep it dry. If it gets wet, I give it to the ducks before it gets moldy. They love fresh straw!
Yeah after I got it in, my back told me not again lol....it was fine sliding it off the truck. But then it was too difficult to move to shelter. Glad I never seen another
I can drive to where I want to store it, then I break off a flake and wheel barrow or bag it to take it to the birds. It makes a mess, I put an Ikea bag over it to keep it dry!
