The Evolution of Atlas: A Breeding (and Chat) Thread

[speckledhen]

I love it when the deer play!! I'd peel the pears for you just to watch you can them!!

I have a horror story for you all. We needed a second 100 gal water tank for Valentine. Every time we go to Tractor Supply, we say never again. Well, it is right on the way home for DH and had the better price on tanks, so he stops and gets one. They pull it down for him and say "It's a little dirty, is that OK?" It's fine, he says, as long as it is not rusty. We will wash it out anyhow. He gets home, pulls it off the back of the truck and calls me outside. They gave him a tank they used for chick days. Chick poop crusted along the sides with "Golden Comet Pullets" sticker still on the top edge. I was speechless. Now I am downright angry. I work hard to keep this place as biosecure as it can be and I feel like we brought in a bomb. It no sooner touched the ground before it was loaded back up and will be returned today, with a good piece of DH's mind I am certain. How could they? Seriously? Not only did they sell us a USED product, but a potentially contaminated one! This was the straw that broke the camel's back. Trashy bathroom, NO common cattle vaccines in stock, pallets of dog food blocking every isle with more focus on apparel, footwear and novelty items instead of actual farm and tractor supplies. We're done. We'll spend more money for piece of mind.

End Rant. Sorry to OT on you, Cyn. Just had to share this nightmare with people who would understand.

Sounds like typical TSC to me. They don't give a hoot, period. We have a new one opening this week near us and no way they'll get my business away from the county co-op. They have no regard for their customers, IMO.


They are WAY higher on feed than the co-op and you can almost guarantee that every two to three 50# bags at TSC will be moldy.

 

[MistyMountain]

Sounds like typical TSC to me. They don't give a hoot, period. We have a new one opening this week near us and no way they'll get my business away from the county co-op. They have no regard for their customers, IMO.


They are WAY higher on feed than the co-op and you can almost guarantee that every two to three 50# bags at TSC will be moldy.

I am just SICK over it. So many people go there and love it, though. That kind of thing has got to be illegal.

I never buy big brand feed anyhow, and just seeing the piles of mouse dropping around the pallets of feed is enough for me. I know that with feed comes mice and that all feed stores/mills will have their share of rodents, but clean it up people!

They have lost us for good. It's not a farm store anymore, anyhow.

 

[1muttsfan]

That is too bad. The stores up here are much cleaner, locally owned, and I have never had problems with moldy food. The elevator on the other hand - disgusting dusty feed that looks like the leftovers swept off the floor of a processing plant.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I enjoy the tractor supply too, but I don't but my feeds there. I tried Dumor once, no one would touch it and it smelled off. We do get dog food and a few supplies like shavings from them. Now the place I buy my feeds and grain from, Fleet Farm, I can't get out of there without spending hundreds and buying stuff I don't necessarily need.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, on to more pleasant subjects. I just snapped a few miscellaneous pics while multiple groups were free ranging. I may have to stop Apollo from running with the older hens in Rita's group, though. He is not all that afraid of them anymore and with several of them exhibiting arthritic hock joints, I'd rather a young, virile, hormonal male not be trying to jump them all the time. He's still afraid of Maretta, though. She's little, but she has attitude.

You can tell there is a little color starting up now.






Georgie and Alice

Poor one-eyed, half-dubbed Dusty.

Xander, the little dictator

Miss Maretta-every rooster wants her and every youngster is afraid of her.

Carolina Sapphire Cypress, hopefully protected until they take hold and grow some.

Brahmas take free ranging seriously. No one goes down to that corner near the power line easment, or rarely, but they love it.


...and the pears I put up yesterday. I just realized I should have cooked the syrup down thicker and made pear pancake syrup. Sheesh, great ideas, a day late (and usually a dollar short, lol).

 

[speckledhen]

I enjoy the tractor supply too, but I don't but my feeds there. I tried Dumor once, no one would touch it and it smelled off. We do get dog food and a few supplies like shavings from them. Now the place I buy my feeds and grain from, Fleet Farm, I can't get out of there without spending hundreds and buying stuff I don't necessarily need.

Exactly, it smells chemical/medicinal. So does Purina. I like Tucker Milling. Smells fresh and "grainy", normal.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

Exactly, it smells chemical/medicinal. So does Purina. I like Tucker Milling. Smells fresh and "grainy", normal.

Mine smells like you could pour milk on it and eat it for breakfast.

You are getting lots of canning done. I gave it up a few years ago, it became too much work for me. Your stuff looks good. I used to have a lovely pear tree but lost it to blight, I miss eating those delicious pears.

 

[speckledhen]

Mine smells like you could pour milk on it and eat it for breakfast.

You are getting lots of canning done. I gave it up a few years ago, it became too much work for me. Your stuff looks good. I used to have a lovely pear tree but lost it to blight, I miss eating those delicious pears.

DH went to get more cable for moving our satellite dishes out to the "back 40", completely forgot the cable, but came home with stew meat to raw-pack can and that's what he's doing now.

 

[holm25]

I love those Brahmas!!!

 

[speckledhen]

I love those Brahmas!!!

Me, too, but I almost knocked them all in the head awhile ago. They did not want to go back in their barn pen, kept running past the door and out the other side. I almost took a tumble down the hill trying to herd them to the barn. In the end, Bash had to be captured by hand. I guess they were having way too much fun today.