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[pennyJo1960]

Cynthia12 I am so sorry about your loss there that can be so tough

 

[Alaskan]

Ouch.... We have never bought or sold a square for more than $2...

Where do you live??? Just wowsers!

I also enjoyed your hay post...good info

The guineas are at the post office!

Little keets, very exciting. Also, most excellent that there were no losses...was a short trip for them?

Oh mann... How about giving Alfalfa pellets a go... Beat pellets as well are a good buffer feed though I feed them as a wet mush.... because they expand but ruminants can handle that better than horses.

deb

Alfalfa pellets are a processed product (as is beet pulp). That means lots of truck time before it get anywhere close to my town... also, maybe they are in stock, and maybe not.

I do feed some alfalfa pellets to my milking goats..higher protein..but they are over $20 for a 50 pound bag.

Stuff up here. ...all super spendy.

I regularly pay seventeen dollars a bale in summer and up to nineteen dollars a bale in winter....

Its all trucked in... either from the Imperial valley or from as far as Oregon. OUr bales are three strand and run about 120 to 135 pounds a bale.

Those are big...so even with trucking your prices aren't that bad. I was talking little squares, 50 to 90 pounds, usually 60 to 70.

Silly some say, but I think there are a few here that can relate to the sadness of losing a chicken.

That is a hard part of owning chickens... most people don't understand the bond.

We totally understand. I am still sad about a chicken I lost maybe 7 years back now. "Mama chicken" was wonderful.

 

[ronott1]

Where do you live??? Just wowsers!

I also enjoyed your hay post...good info



Little keets, very exciting. Also, most excellent that there were no losses...was a short trip for them?



Alfalfa pellets are a processed product (as is beet pulp). That means lots of truck time before it get anywhere close to my town... also, maybe they are in stock, and maybe not.

I do feed some alfalfa pellets to my milking goats..higher protein..but they are over $20 for a 50 pound bag.

Stuff up here. ...all super spendy.




Those are big...so even with trucking your prices aren't that bad. I was talking little squares, 50 to 90 pounds, usually 60 to 70.





That is a hard part of owning chickens... most people don't understand the bond.

We totally understand. I am still sad about a chicken I lost maybe 7 years back now. "Mama chicken" was wonderful.

Way back when my Grandpa had horses, which was quite some time ago since he died in 1995....He took a truck load of alfalfa hay to a mill and they turned it into alfalfa pellets. He had them use molasses not beat juice though.

 

[Alaskan]

Alaska has very little in the way of manufacturing. It is interesting, but in regards to that kind of infastructure we are bottom of the barrel.

We even ship out our crude, get it processed "outside", and then the gas has to be shipped all the way back.

We do have one feed mill in the entire state (only manufactured brand that ships to my town) and they have to input from out of state many of their ingredients.

Last year someone from the center of the state set something up where he bags and sells the local oats and barley. Fantastic since the prices are good. $12 for 50 pounds of barley.

 

[ronott1]

Alaska has very little in the way of manufacturing. It is interesting, but in regards to that kind of infastructure we are bottom of the barrel.

We even ship out our crude, get it processed "outside", and then the gas has to be shipped all the way back.

We do have one feed mill in the entire state (only manufactured brand that ships to my town) and they have to input from out of state many of their ingredients.

Last year someone from the center of the state set something up where he bags and sells the local oats and barley. Fantastic since the prices are good. $12 for 50 pounds of barley.

Good price for Barley!

 

[CapricornFarm]

My guinea keets came from IA, Meyers hatchery to Virginia. They all arrived alive. They are so dumb that the only one that has figured out how to get feed got stuck in there! But they are cute! I got them to eat ticks, and now there are not so many of them around

 

[pennyJo1960]

Where do you live??? Just wowsers!

I also enjoyed your hay post...good info



Little keets, very exciting. Also, most excellent that there were no losses...was a short trip for them?



Alfalfa pellets are a processed product (as is beet pulp). That means lots of truck time before it get anywhere close to my town... also, maybe they are in stock, and maybe not.

I do feed some alfalfa pellets to my milking goats..higher protein..but they are over $20 for a 50 pound bag.

Stuff up here. ...all super spendy.




Those are big...so even with trucking your prices aren't that bad. I was talking little squares, 50 to 90 pounds, usually 60 to 70.





That is a hard part of owning chickens... most people don't understand the bond.

We totally understand. I am still sad about a chicken I lost maybe 7 years back now. "Mama chicken" was wonderful.

I do understand mine are not named per se but there are the 5 I started with the ee we are partial to the oe that I watched so close yes wE DO GET ATTACHED oops cap lock off

 

[microchick]

Cynthia 12, I'm so sorry to hear that you lost little Uggums. I remember you mentioning her in the past.

It hurts every time you loose one but there are special birds that forever leave their little claw prints on your heart and they stay there forever.

Did Uggums leave you any sons or daughters so a bit of her lives on?

 

[Alaskan]

My guinea keets came from IA, Meyers hatchery to Virginia. They all arrived alive. They are so dumb that the only one that has figured out how to get feed got stuck in there! But they are cute! I got them to eat ticks, and now there are not so many of them around

My turkey poults were like that...we had to go in every hour and peck at their feed so they would eat! Sooooooo stupid. It took them a week to learn to do it on their own.

We tried the shiny stuff in/on/under the feed...didn't work...they would peck right on the shiny, but not on the feed.

I hope your keets aren't that slow.

 

[ronott1]

I'm so sad! I haven't been this sad over losing a chicken for a long time, because I haven't lost a chicken for a long time. My little Uggums is gone. She just never came out of that last broody very well. She got real thin while sitting, even though I took her off the nest every now and again to eat and drink, which she did, but not much. It was so hot..and still is. She was skin and bones today. Man, I'm going to miss that little cute thing come running every morning when I go out. Silly some say, but I think there are a few here that can relate to the sadness of losing a chicken. View attachment 1075505

I am so sorry!
She was gorgeous