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its amazing the stuff you guys toss around as if it is general knowledge! love this discussion of why someone would price barley below market price. I don't know why but am fascinated by this farm talk. could be because the first thing I wanted to be when I grew up was a farmer.
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Ralphie, I just paid $10.75 for 50# of Barley at Widdes. It is not bad quality, but I have to winnow and clean it. I don't feed it to the chickens but mix it in the feed for my racing pigeons.
I heard the brush wolves (coyotes) last night at 1:24. They must have had a deer down the way it sounded. I was able to calm the female Shih Tzu, as she normally puts up quite a fuss when they are in full attack mode. I think she perceives herself to be a wolf hound and would like to go on the attack.
My DW is quite concerned when her dogs go out after dark with all the varmints around, although they are not really safe without supervision at any time here.
 
ejb3810 said:
Ralphie, I just paid $10.75 for 50# of Barley at Widdes. It is not bad quality, but I have to winnow and clean it. I don't feed it to the chickens but mix it in the feed for my racing pigeons.
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That's actually a really good price for barley from a feed store then, I have found most stores charge 3x's market price.

Maybe Jay forgot to check the markets that day. ( Does Jay still run the place?)
 
lalaland said:
oh I need to rent goats!! blackberry picking in the brush by the woods I was dismayed to find a huge poison ivy infestation. Way to much to spray, and so far that spraying hasn't really worked well for me in the areas I've been trying. But....won't coyotes eat goats?



your phone vendor should have cloud tutorials on their website - I know verizon does (ask me how I know).


and, in my book, you can be a class 1 redneck AND a treehugger! eat venison AND granola. listen to country AND MPR. I could go on, but I wont.....


and just to make this post chicken related, three days after the soap in the water, and the tumeric/garlic/wormer herbs added to the feed, I got more eggs!


Also, want to complain about EEs. They are soo docile. I had one as a chick some years back and I literally had to duct tape her back just about the tail because she was letting her flockmates eat her feathers and draw blood. Now I have one who is about 18 months old and having her first molt. Her best buddy is a buff orpington. The buff is eating the EE's little feather stubbs that are coming in. She just walks over and starts grazing on the EE. Worse yet, the EE goes over and sidles up to her so the BO can eat more! I tried some old booster rooster pick me no more which has a horrible perfume and is basically blue kote in a lotion (works great when the area you want to cover is near the eyes). I don't know if it will work or not, if not, she is going to have duct tape muffs.
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Yeah, my buff orp eats the feathers off the backs of 3 of mine. 1 ee and 2 slw. I think they have all picked up the bad habit now. My ee that died stood up to her and then she didn't pick her feathers anymore. I was hoping the others would stand up to her. so far nope. when fall comes here i'm going to throw some hen saddles on them. I just ordered some rooster booster pick no more, maybe that will work, but I doubt it. my buff orp has pinless peepers on as well. she is terrible, loves feathers. But I love her so can't cull her :( I'm also building the bigger run, I doubt that will help either. we'll see.
 
Feed question

Are folks mixing up their own feed blends for the winter?

@duluthralphie

Thank you, you made my day. For the record you are my favorite redneck. *treehug*
 

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