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[18angovem]

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Doesn't that make 525 lbs? not 500?

 

[SilkieSensation]

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Doesn't that make 525 lbs? not 500?

Yes, the molasses & grains are 500 lbs. The supplements are the other 25.

 

[18angovem]

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Ok, so if you were making say a 250lb batch, would you cut the vitamins in half or not?

 

[chiques chicks]

I posted an ad on there, actually. I found a few on there but not anywhere very close. did find one that in a 3 hr round trip so thinking of doing that. but would prefer to find one a tad closer.

Craigslist around here has some, but I'm way down in Lancaster county. Quite a few kids. It's that time of year. Pygmy, Boer, alpine, kiko, etc.

 

[SilkieSensation]

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Ok, so if you were making say a 250lb batch, would you cut the vitamins in half or not?

Yes, you would cut everything in half...but I have never found a mill willing to do a special mix less than 500 pounds. Some even require 1,000 pounds. If 500 pounds is too much at a time, maybe you could find someone close to you to split an order with.

 

[18angovem]

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\ Yeah maybe... I just made a quick call and there is one about 40 min away that will do a special mix of 500lb. But they can bag it for me in 50lb bags and I can pick it up as I go... I need to call the one closest to me but have not found there number yet.

 

[SilkieSensation]

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\ Yeah maybe... I just made a quick call and there is one about 40 min away that will do a special mix of 500lb. But they can bag it for me in 50lb bags and I can pick it up as I go... I need to call the one closest to me but have not found there number yet.

Mine is always bagged, but sometimes they stuff more than the 50 pounds in a bag. I've had bags weighing close to 70 pounds from this last mill just because that's what fit. I asked them if they were trying to kill me!!

 

[18angovem]

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Haha! lol. I have to carry multiple bags that weigh 100 lbs for the heifers... My partners (In business not life) dad used to work with us and he always carried it but now that he is older he cant and I am the replacement....

 

[SilkieSensation]

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Haha! lol. I have to carry multiple bags that weigh 100 lbs for the heifers... My partners (In business not life) dad used to work with us and he always carried it but now that he is older he cant and I am the replacement....

Technically, due to a screwed up back, hip, knee & ankle, I'm not supposed to be carrying more than 10 pounds at a time & certainly not 50-70 pound bags of feed flung over my bad shoulder up a steep bank to the coop 500-1000 pounds at a time. Luckily, the bad shoulder is opposite the bad leg so I can somewhat balance. But when they get much more than 50 pounds in the bags, I can't get them flipped high enough to shoulder them & have to bear hug them & waddle up the hill. No, you are NOT getting pix of the fat lady waddling up the hill with feed bags...lol

 

[18angovem]

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lol. Do you not own a truck? Could you just load the bags in the truck? If I wanted I could load all the bags in the gator but its only about a 300ft walk.... My mom had a hysterectomy about a yr ago and at that time they had just got a puppy a few weeks before and she said it was the worst not being able to hold it! She was only allowed to hold 2 lbs at a time. I do not know what inspired them to get a puppy right before her surgery?