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[CapricornFarm]

Not really, if I use gallon feeders or larger, the feed just sours. Besides gives me a chance to really check things out in their pens or check the birds for any problems up close. I feed anywhere from 1/2lbs to a 1lbs/pen. The coffee cans hold 2 lbs. so depending on how many birds I'm running in a particular pen, one can will feed either 4 pens or 2 pens. All of my pens are designed the same way, which is 8 pens in a 30' x 40' total enclosure. So for some of the enclosures it takes 3 cans. Some only 2 cans.
I've thought about a kids pull wagon but some of the ground I have to go over to get to the pens is rough and rocky. I have 147 individual pens in all the combined enclosures.

Wow, i would hate to have your feed bill!

 

[bruceha2000]

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It is up high, but not the worst it has been. We have had 2 flash flood alerts for our area! Always scares me when the phone siren kicks in.

Good think you are high up off that river!

I hear it gets better.

Just keep breathing... good place to start.

It does, but not fast. If you think about your recently lost loved ones at odd times or out of the blue, that is normal. If you are OK when your brain is busy during the day but "go south" when you slow down, that is normal. My parents divorced when I was 11. Mom died in May 2003, Dad and I drove the stuff I took from her house in So. Cal out here to Vermont in Sept, it included one of her dressers and DW was using it. A few weeks later the cat jumped up and sat in one of the drawers. She loved cats and I instantly thought "I need to take a picture of that and send it to Mom. Then realization and

to both of you!

Not easy to do arch supports when you are barefooted and being barefooted feels sooooooo good.

Then just tape the arch supports to your bare feet!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Sean I'm so sorry you fell and got hurt.

I had a lot of trouble trying to carry 5 gallon buckets to feed my birds. I got a heavy duty cart from tractor supply to put my feed on. The cart helped so much. Before that I fell regularly trying to carry the buckets. The heavy tires on my cart go all over this farm. And I can stack 8- 50 lb. bags of feed or mulch on it.
Just a suggestion.

I have a wagon too. Considering getting a bigger one as well.

 

[007Sean]

Sean I'm so sorry you fell and got hurt.

I had a lot of trouble trying to carry 5 gallon buckets to feed my birds. I got a heavy duty cart from tractor supply to put my feed on. The cart helped so much. Before that I fell regularly trying to carry the buckets. The heavy tires on my cart go all over this farm. And I can stack 8- 50 lb. bags of feed or mulch on it.
Just a suggestion.

Yeah, thanks for the suggestion. I have thought about it but I got a 300 yard haul to the last pen, through brush and rocky terrain on narrow paths. Yeah, I know, widen the paths!

 

[007Sean]

Wow, i would hate to have your feed bill!

1 ton of feed last year, on pace for more than that, this year. Yep, my feed bill looks like the National debt!

 

[CapricornFarm]

1 ton of feed last year, on pace for more than that, this year. Yep, my feed bill looks like the National debt!

Oh man, i hope you sell a lot of birds to offset that!

 

[bruceha2000]

Yeah!!!! Way better than tripping and stumbling your way with heavy buckets! Get one with big wheels and maybe it will widen the path for you.

1 ton of feed last year, on pace for more than that, this year. Yep, my feed bill looks like the National debt!

That isn't really so much considering how many birds you have. I go through about 100# a month, currently have fourteen older girls and six 14 week old ones.

 

[007Sean]

Yeah!!!! Way better than tripping and stumbling your way with heavy buckets! Get one with big wheels and maybe it will widen the path for you.


That isn't really so much considering how many birds you have. I go through about 100# a month, currently have fourteen older girls and six 14 week old ones.

Chickens eat more than pheasants, sometimes I can't even tell if they eaten any at all...but if there is a little bit of feed left, it gets put in another bucket and hauled to the compost pile and new feed put out. Don't want problems from them eating sour feed.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Lesson my food bill here taking the 7 out

 

[microchick]

Then just tape the arch supports to your bare feet!

Bwa hahahahahahhah. I'll have to remember to tell my podiatrist that one! Too funny.

I go through about 175 pounds a month for about 60 birds. Those little guys eat like teenage boys.

Just learned that my Fayoumi rooster is really a hen! Score Score! I pick her up next Sunday.