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[AriLovesChickens]

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Without something between theknees to keep things in line that is the worst way.

It worked for me. I need a pillow between my arms though.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Since you are a farm, you should be able to buy wholesale!!

LOOK:: MY Icees..........

Easier said than done in many cases. PipsnPeeps has sold eggs, birds, and had a business license for years yet cannot get wholesale prices on feed up near Spokane.

We've been in the cattle (and BIL's family, pig) business for generations, but buy almost all of our feed retail: the amounts and in most cases contract prepays are beyond our cash flow.

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again and point out that much of this is a result of the old producer co-ops being replaced by agribusiness conglomerates. For cattle, big feeders are owned by or are in exclusive contract relationships with big packers, and get their feed from vendors who are also owned by/under contract to those packers. Trying to do any animal-based agriculture at a level above hobbying is always going to hit that wall: the feed sources are no longer a free market.

 

[ReiMiraa]

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if you are over in the Leavenworth area i can hook you up with some hatching eggs. the fertility is high and these are vigorous and hardy birds.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Better than the nights that one's back and knees are of opposite opinions about what sleep-props are needed, and the shoulders are at odds with both of them.

(Or as I call them "hell on Vicodin").

 

[ReiMiraa]

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I charge $3.50 per dozen and some people still complain. I tell them I have yet to cover the price of the food I feed them at that price. I've been keeping track of chicks, chickens, feed, wormer and wood shavings, and the money I get from all the eggs we sell, and I am still over $700 on the wrong side (and that is not counting coops, waterers, feeders....)

My big incubator, and the hatching incubator (not counting the heat lamps) have been clocked at $60 a month on the "kill-a-watt" device we bought.
It plugs into the wall, then you plug your appliance into it.
It has a digital read out of how many watts used/in 24/or weekly, etc.
DH figured $60 a month at least.
Running them for just a few eggs is dumb....

I love living in chelan county. i ran my incubator 24/7 from may till mid august. never turned it off. electricity here is cheap. our total bills are $25-75. our tv and cell phone bills are higher. no water bill since we have a well.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Madam, finally caught up with my sister- they had school stuff eating their time yesterday, one forgets how much maintenance middle school takes. The pork has been ground but the meat won't be cut until tomorrow and we are all booked straight out until Monday, sorry, events are in the saddle and riding us hard.

This was all much easier when we had eight adults in three houses doing this stuff full-time instead of two in one house.

 

[AriLovesChickens]

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Thanks...I'm just north of Seattle though. That would be a long trip for eggs.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Birth control is not PMU. While at one point they may have been, synthetic hormones are cheaper (and not from urine) and have been the go-to progesterone source for most drugs for years.

They originally were, back in the 60s way before computers, and I protested & went to farms to see...
They did indeed keep their horses very clean & comfortable.
Since then, the world has changed & now we use "Biodenticals" as 4,3,2,1 has said.
I have to have them (hormones) as I had my Ovs removed years ago.
So, I am looking into the progesterone instead of conjugated estrogens,,,,hope it works for me!
Good luck on your tests & home work!

Estrogen did not work for me...it was my progesterone that was nil. So I am on a progesterone. helps me a lot.

 

[hallerlake]

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Rainwolf is in Samoa, isn't she?

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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It was 27F overnight here; ten degrees warmer than the same date last year. I am displeased and distressed by the whole prospect of winter, but not surprised.

Wonder if people are going to get the well cover fixed before the first time we're hammered by an Arctic cold front.