The Old Folks Home

[ozexpat]

You can buy it from alibaba.com

US $240-290 / Metric Ton (FOB Price)
1500 Metric Tons (Min. Order)
Type: Wheat ; Style: Fresh ; Cultivation Type: Common ; Certification: ISO ; Texture:: Hard and Soft

30 million pounds should last a while.

 

[ronott1]

You can buy it from alibaba.com

US $240-290 / Metric Ton (FOB Price)
1500 Metric Tons (Min. Order)
Type: Wheat ; Style: Fresh ; Cultivation Type: Common ; Certification: ISO ; Texture:: Hard and Soft

30 million pounds should last a while.

Could you imagine her shock when the truck showed up to deliver a metric ton of wheat?

 

[ozexpat]

Could you imagine her shock when the truck showed up to deliver a metric ton of wheat?

the minimum order was 1500 metric tons LOL - a 40foot container

 

[ozexpat]

Alibaba is a fun site. It is a clearing house for mostly chinese goods. I found a supplier for pre-mix vitamins, minerals and trace elements for chicken feed as I started to blend my own - huge savings on the blended feed over premade.

Anyways, the minimum I could buy was 100kg but I ended up hetting 5kg free as a sample!! Just paid shipping.

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Mine get commercial pellets, and lots of kitchen scraps. I can't walk out side with a bowl with out every chicken running to meet me. TOday they feasted on lots of scraps, tomorrow I have more for them. Bananas, apple cores, nuked carrots, leftover sandwhich crusts, . . . with 2 kids she must have food like that to give to the birds. My birds get out side when the sun is up. Used to be after 2nd child was on the bus, now it is after the 1st one is on the bus.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

You can buy it from alibaba.com

US $240-290 / Metric Ton (FOB Price)
1500 Metric Tons (Min. Order)
Type: Wheat ; Style: Fresh ; Cultivation Type: Common ; Certification: ISO ; Texture:: Hard and Soft

30 million pounds should last a while.

Maybe they can bury her in it.

Mine get commercial pellets, and lots of kitchen scraps. I can't walk out side with a bowl with out every chicken running to meet me. TOday they feasted on lots of scraps, tomorrow I have more for them. Bananas, apple cores, nuked carrots, leftover sandwhich crusts, . . . with 2 kids she must have food like that to give to the birds. My birds get out side when the sun is up. Used to be after 2nd child was on the bus, now it is after the 1st one is on the bus.

Mine get lots of scraps, too, but she was hoping that they could free range all winter and just feed themselves without her having to put in any money or energy (or scraps). Yeah, they'll scratch up the 3 feet of snow to eat the luscious grass hiding under there.

 

[ronott1]

Mine get commercial pellets, and lots of kitchen scraps. I can't walk out side with a bowl with out every chicken running to meet me. TOday they feasted on lots of scraps, tomorrow I have more for them. Bananas, apple cores, nuked carrots, leftover sandwhich crusts, . . . with 2 kids she must have food like that to give to the birds. My birds get out side when the sun is up. Used to be after 2nd child was on the bus, now it is after the 1st one is on the bus.

Our chickens growing up were fed that way too. Family of 6. We did toss out a grain mix that my Dad made up each morning for them but the rest of the time it was free range and scraps.

 

[ozexpat]

Here is my recipe

TO MAKE 100KG Starter Grower Finisher Layer
0-6 6-12 12+
soy meal (kg) 22 10 7 7
rice bran (kg) 78 85 68 68
copra meal (kg) 5 25 25
Salt (g) 100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00
Vit & Elec (g) 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00
Selenium (mg/100kg) 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00
Biotin (mg/100kg) 50.00 50.00 50.00 50.00
Oyster Shell (kg) 0.50 0.50 0.50 2.00
Amprolium 20% (g) 63.00

Protein % 21.9 17.4 15.3 15.3
Lysene g/kg 11.5 8.4 6.9 6.9

Price per 100kg Php ₱2,094 ₱1,550 ₱1,389 ₱1,389
Price per 100kg USD $49.86 $36.90 $33.07 $33.07

Store bought pellets
Price per 100kg Php ₱2,650 ₱2,550 ₱2,520 ₱2,520
Price per 100kg USD $63.10 $60.71 $60.00 $60.00

Price per 50lb USD Store Bought $14.51 $13.96 $13.80 $13.80
Price per 50lb USD Home blended $11.47 $8.49 $7.61 $7.61
savings per 50lb $3.04 $5.48 $6.19 $6.19

Corn is more expensive than rice bran and rice bran is fairly similar in nutrition. I get the lysine bump from the SBM.

and if you ever wondered whats in grains..

copra rice bran soy fish meal maize
Main analysis Unit Avg Avg Avg Avg Avg
Dry matter % as fed 91.5 90.2 87.9 92.2 87.2
Crude protein % DM 22.4 12.7 51.8 70.6 9.5
Crude fibre % DM 14.2 16.3 6.7 2.3
NDF % DM 54.7 34.4 13.7 11.9
ADF % DM 28.7 19.6 8.3 3.1
Lignin % DM 6.7 6.8 0.8 0.6
Ether extract % DM 9.8 14.4 2 9.9 4.1
Ash % DM 6.8 12.4 7.1 18.4 1.4
Total sugars % DM 11.4 2.8 9.4 3.1
Gross energy MJ/kg DM 20.1 20.2 19.7 20.4 18.7
Minerals Unit Avg Avg Avg Avg Avg
Calcium g/kg DM 1.2 0.7 3.9 43.4 0.2
Phosphorus g/kg DM 5.8 13.8 6.9 27.9 2.9
Potassium g/kg DM 20.1 12.3 23.7 8.7 3.5
Sodium g/kg DM 0.6 0.2 0.1 11.3 0
Magnesium g/kg DM 3 6.5 3.1 2.3 1.2
Manganese mg/kg DM 84 138 45 16 13
Zinc mg/kg DM 73 55 54 96 23
Copper mg/kg DM 33 9 18 7 2
Iron mg/kg DM 964 346 367 21
Amino acids Unit Avg Avg Avg Avg Avg
Alanine % protein 4 5.8 4.4 6.3 7.5
Arginine % protein 10.7 7.2 7.4 6.2 4.9
Aspartic acid % protein 7.7 9.3 11.3 9.1 6.8
Cystine % protein 1.2 1.7 1.5 0.8 2.2
Glutamic acid % protein 17.8 12.7 17.7 12.6 18.1
Glycine % protein 4.1 5.2 4.2 6.4 3.9
Histidine % protein 1.9 2.4 2.6 2.4 2.9
Isoleucine % protein 3 5.3 4.6 4.2 3.6
Leucine % protein 5.9 7 7.5 7.2 11.8
Lysine % protein 2.6 4.4 6.1 7.5 3.1
Methionine % protein 1.3 1.9 1.4 2.7 2.1
Phenylalanine % protein 4.1 4.4 5 3.9 4.8
Proline % protein 3.4 4.6 4.9 4.2 8.7
Serine % protein 4.4 4 5 3.9 4.7
Threonine % protein 3 3.7 3.9 4.1 3.5
Tryptophan % protein 1.3 2.2 1.3 1 0.7
Tyrosine % protein 2.1 3.4 3.5 3.1 3.4
Valine % protein 4.7 5.4 4.8 4.9 4.9

 

[drumstick diva]

let them free range in snow in MAINE, all winter- yep I knew she was thinking that. Maybe they would fly away from home and be saved by some nice person - like SCG. What a piece of work that woman is. They'd be better off if she just eat them before they waste away to nothing.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Oz, I think I'll email her your recipe and see if I can get her head to explode. Do you get it mixed off site or do you mix yourself?