Nevadans?

[americanvalkyrie]

I'd be happy to get in on some of that spent grain! How fast does it go bad?

From what I've been reading, you'll want to use the wet stuff within 10 days in spring weather, within 5 days in the summer. Some people freeze theirs in gallon-size bags, then pull a bag out and store it in the fridge while giving it to their chickens in appropriate ratios. Others dry theirs, then mix it in the regular food. If it goes sour, they dump it immediately in the compost, where it decomposes fast. They say it breaks up clay in gardens really well.

I'm thinking I could dry some in the oven on a low setting, or put a few trays in the furnace room, then store the rest in the freezer. We rotate out two 55-gallon composters, too. When we till garden #3, we could use a lot of grains plus horse manure to break up the soil, since the plot we're using hasn't been gardened in a few years. And further into the year, when we have even more chickens, it will be nice to have some more supplemental food.

 

[laceynoelle]

Has anyone heard from Sheryl? I called her a couple hours ago but got the machine, and I'm getting all anxious. D: Mehh.

 

[2seth2]

when if first joined the tread everyone was fantically searching for ron. People need to learn once you are in you never get out >

 

[gitlost80]

Hello all,
Its been forever since I was on here. I always seem to get Chicken fever right around the same time every year,so here I am!

 

[2seth2]

hi i am seth what chickens are you ordering gitlost80

 

[2seth2]

like i said once you are one of us you never leave >

 

[aubreynoramarie]

I have given my girls spent grains. They didnt like them very much, i think it was the texture, so i just mixed it with their layer crumbles.

 

[laceynoelle]

Noo Seth, lol she's my ride into Cali. :]
We got our puppies back!! Some crazy ark ho-stess cake took them, then lied when we tried to get them back. The cops had to get involved when they finally handed them over, and what did they say? 'We didnt want them anyway' The hell you didnt!! It took four hours to get them and you fought us every way you scurvy babywiped gutterscum!! The cops made me wait in the truck and they brought me my dogs from four houses away.
Btw, I hate being angry on BYC. Some how 'meany head' just doesnt cover it.

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Noo Seth, lol she's my ride into Cali. :]
We got our puppies back!! Some crazy ark ho-stess cake took them, then lied when we tried to get them back. The cops had to get involved when they finally handed them over, and what did they say? 'We didnt want them anyway' The hell you didnt!! It took four hours to get them and you fought us every way you scurvy babywiped gutterscum!! The cops made me wait in the truck and they brought me my dogs from four houses away.
Btw, I hate being angry on BYC. Some how 'meany head' just doesnt cover it.

DID I MISS SOMETHING??? WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED, GIRL??

 

[laceynoelle]

DID I MISS SOMETHING??? WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED, GIRL??

Man I forgot to let you guys know!! This is what I came home from work to today. Okay, so we've got two pups, and they're 7 weeks old. One of my sisters (Breanna) was showing one to her friend down the street. Her friend took it upon herself to find it a new home with some people in Sun Valley. When nobody but my other little sister, Rachelle, was home, who is a bit of a pushover, the Friend came by and said she needed to see the other pup because his sister was lonely. Rachelle thought that Breanna was at her house, so she gave him to the friend. Breanna is somewhere in sparks and has no idea what's going on, the friend just took it upon herself to say Breanna said she could babysit the puppies for the day. So then this 'Friend' told her boyfriend that the puppies were homeless and needed a home, and gave them both to him and his family.
Okay, so the boy puppy has a bump on his tummy (We think a spider bite) that needed looked at. The vet's had thier system down yesterday due to the power outage when we called, so we had to wait until today to make the appointment. We told this to Carley (The Friend) who said to go get the boy from Sun Valley, but they wanted to keep the girl. We were fine witht hem keeping the girl, but parvo has been really bad this year esp., and we told her to tell her BF's family that she needs her shots at 8 weeks (Next Sunday) and to either get them for her or let us do it, because we always give the dogs thier shots ourselves. In addition to all this, technically both pups already had homes set up.
Carley give us the adress to pick up the boy, and possibly the girl if they wanted us to give her her shot. We drive there, knock on the door, and the boy who answers says he's never heard of a Carley and had absolutely no idea why we're on his front porch. We're like "alright' and go back to the truck to call Breanna to get Carley's number again because we left it at the house.
So while we're sitting here waiting for my mom to update Breanna, I start thinking. My mom wrote down every customer's adress for the Tree Service we owned for the past 20 years or so. She's crazy good with numbers and there's no way so did it wrong. Not to mention it'd be crazy to go to the road that has the exact adress and it not be correct. So I told her these *String of insulting Profanities* were playing us.
She's pretty good natured, so as she's calling Carley agian, she's like 'noo..' Hmm, no one picks up the phone. I call, and in the thirty seconds in between, the phone is suddenly off. Mind you, seprate numbers. So I leave a seriously angry message, and we go home. My mom is mad now, and when she get's mad, its scary.
We go to Carley's house and talk to her mom, and say hey, we just want to boy back, he needs medical attention and he's promised to another family who won't give him up. They picked him when he was a week old, and theyre good friends of ours. She says she doesnt know whats going on or where Carley is, but 'good luck to you' type of thing. Mom calls Carley's cell and leaves another message saying 'You've got ten minutes until the cops are involved' or somthing. I liked it. A little melodramatic, but it was kinda mobster too, and I an Italian after all.
So she never calls back, she's ignoring our calls, so mom calls the cops. They say they cant really do much since the dogs arent purebred anythings worth thousands of dollars, but they can try to bluff the people into giving our dogs back. They call Carley's phone, it goes through (Big suprise) and say they'll give us the puppies now. They have to give them both back because my mom was along the lines of 'you took it this far, you cant even have one puppy mofo' The cops follow us back to thier house, I'm all ready to jump the Ahole that lied to my face, and the cops get out and say 'We thought it over, and we're going to walk over and get the puppies and bring them back to you to prevent a possible altercation' I was all put out because I dressed in my butt-kicking cowboy boots, but we all agreed. The people came to the door, and tried to tell us they we're thier puppies and we were just trying to take them. Yeah, the cops were at our house and saw the angry mama dog. then there was the 'we didnt want them anyway' After all that? Really?
We could tell anyway whose dogs they were. With those lovely white trash folks, the puppies were wiggling and whining. The cop gave my the girl, and she's all licking my face and stuff. Winner winner chicken dinner.