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I have a corner of the barn where water leaks in under the wall (dirt floor), it's always fairly cool there, so that's where I store the drums. A second reason I buy in bulk is the drive... It's an hour and a half one way to the feed store. It's crappy feed but the best I can get around here.

The previous GM at the local co-op would custom blend non-GMO feed for me, but the new GM doesn't want to deal with it. GMO grains are much cheaper than non-GMO, but if his guys run low on their GMO stuff, they'll fill in the void with non-GMO. And then there's the whole clean the equipment before milling my feed that annoys him. "They are after all just chickens."
 
rjohns39 said:
I have a corner of the barn where water leaks in under the wall (dirt floor), it's always fairly cool there, so that's where I store the drums. A second reason I buy in bulk is the drive... It's an hour and a half one way to the feed store. It's crappy feed but the best I can get around here.

The previous GM at the local co-op would custom blend non-GMO feed for me, but the new GM doesn't want to deal with it. GMO grains are much cheaper than non-GMO, but if his guys run low on their GMO stuff, they'll fill in the void with non-GMO. And then there's the whole clean the equipment before milling my feed that annoys him. "They are after all just chickens."
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I was driving about that until they closed. The next nearest are 2 & 1/2 hrs away. So I was getting the prince...then I found the farmer with the mill about 40 minutes away. He had just started up. Hope he keeps going. He had custom bags and now he switched to plain paper. Makes me wonder how he is doing.
 
Molpet said:
If you win the lottery, a running freezer for storage., :gig
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Not kidding! I would just like to be able to use the cellar this house was built with. Nutty remodeler in the 80's walled it up. I can stand up in the old cellar in this house, it obviously used to house the coal-burning furnace, and you can see where the old outside access was cemented in with a foundation wall. You have to go through the crawl space to get to it now.
Guy I talked to said it might be able to be opened back up for about 10 grand. And that's not counting getting a permit.
 
Parront said:
Not kidding! I would just like to be able to use the cellar this house was built with. Nutty remodeler in the 80's walled it up. I can stand up in the old cellar in this house, it obviously used to house the coal-burning furnace, and you can see where the old outside access was cemented in with a foundation wall. You have to go through the crawl space to get to it now.
Guy I talked to said it might be able to be opened back up for about 10 grand. And that's not counting getting a permit.
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WOW
Must be structural issues. Might be why they concreted it up
 
rjohns39 said:
I have a corner of the barn where water leaks in under the wall (dirt floor), it's always fairly cool there, so that's where I store the drums. A second reason I buy in bulk is the drive... It's an hour and a half one way to the feed store. It's crappy feed but the best I can get around here.

The previous GM at the local co-op would custom blend non-GMO feed for me, but the new GM doesn't want to deal with it. GMO grains are much cheaper than non-GMO, but if his guys run low on their GMO stuff, they'll fill in the void with non-GMO. And then there's the whole clean the equipment before milling my feed that annoys him. "They are after all just chickens."
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JUST chickens, OMG! That guy's attitude is why people will pay more to buy organic & non-gmo. If they gave a hoot, we could buy decent, not rancid food without added preservatives for our birds and ourselves. I pay over $50 for Dylan's parrot kibble. It comes in a special foil, re-sealable bag. It tells the parrot parent to keep it refrigerated so it will not go rancid.
https://www.amazon.com/Harrisons-Hi.../B0007LDX8I/ref=psdc_2975238011_t2_B0007LHZWS
It has saved me from any more egg-bound vet bills! Her food cost's a lot more than mine.
 
Molpet said:
WOW
Must be structural issues. Might be why they concreted it up
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I think it was the flood insurance. It is not habitable space any more. That was about when mandatory FEMA flood insurance came to be. We still have to pay, but a lot less than we would have to if that space were part of the livable area with insurable stuff in there. Guy about a block from us has a $2,000/year bill with a split-level house that has a basement garage. We pay ~400/year.
 
Molpet said:
:gig
If I am trying to get something out of the bottom back of an almost empty large chest freezer, either I get in or my feet are off the ground. I'm 5'2"
Getting harder to get out nowadays :mad:
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It is a big freezer, then! I am green with envy. I have been thinking of places to put one of those little chest freezers, maybe in my office. In the house it only has to cool down from 80 degrees to freezing. Even though Prescott is not in the desert, it is warm Hot here in the summer. We moved here to get away from the even worse heat in the desert!
 

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