Stock Piling Feed

[CG1]

The local feed stores are saying they will likely shut down. I spent my weekend stock piling feed like some sort of crazy preparer. Few months ago the snow took them out and it got scary for me there for a week. Anyone else seeing this in their area? I worry mainly about my chickens who consume far more feed that I cannot get off the land. I have stock piled for 30 days but I may go back today and buy another 30 days worth...

 

[ccr]

Why would feed stores shut down?

 

[CG1]

Why would feed stores shut down?

Every operation over 30 people is suggested to take these measures. They will take phone order etc. Its the same scenario with the snow fall. Why would they shut down? For a 14 day quarantine.

 

[callmefence]

Learning to get by without going to the feed store is one of the most important things in learning to be profitable.

 

[hurleyjd]

Due to spring it seems coming early I have been able to reduce the feed bill to 0. Only expense will be minerals and herbicides. I am planning to keep cow herd small and bale hay with out fertilizer.

 

[Stocker Steve]

Did a drive by today on the two local coffee spots. The good old boys were still cheek to jowl at the "table of knowledge". No Facebook for them. Could become a epidemic hot spot if there is a shedder in the group...

 

[Stocker Steve]

I wonder how the smaller not online sales barns will handle this?

 

[Brute 23]

I thought about this yesterday with the feed stores. I could survive 2 weeks with out the feed store no problem but I will problem run and get a few things any ways. I prefer to have cubes on hand and stuff in case cattle get out or some thing like that.

Filled all the deer feeders this past week so if nothing else I can shoot hogs and other critters for a couple months and survive.

 

[SBMF 2015]

I wonder how the smaller not online sales barns will handle this?

Tyson fresh meats would not give a live cattle bid today. I talked to my buyer, he said they had bought 10,000 hd by Wednesday last week and didn't even have them scheduled yet. He thought they would be bidding again by Friday.
Our local sale barn has their mrkt sale on Tuesdays. Talked to them today. Their hoping for a $1 top on fat cattle, but they said they have no idea what to expect.

 

[Stocker Steve]

Our grocery had plenty of beef in the case, but was out of chicken soup and almost out of bacon.

I think eating more at home and eating less at the restaurant is going to hit beef hard.

 

[SBMF 2015]

The U.S. Consumers will literally have to eat through the surplus of chicken and pork before the beef market turns around.
However if the packers quit harvesting animals. It will lesson the supply in the coolers. Short term.

If we can't ship fats, we have to feed them. The number of heavy carcasses will sky rocket, and the packers will use that as an excuse to keep prices low.

 

[1982vett]

Due to spring it seems coming early I have been able to reduce the feed bill to 0. Only expense will be minerals and herbicides. I am planning to keep cow herd small and bale hay with out fertilizer.

Yep...pretty much changed my game plan going forward. Hope I don’t get raped selling this week but damn...this was my scheduled plan for 2 months.

Diesel should get pretty cheap...probably shred rather than spray this year.

 

[greggy]

The local feed stores are saying they will likely shut down. I spent my weekend stock piling feed like some sort of crazy preparer. Few months ago the snow took them out and it got scary for me there for a week. Anyone else seeing this in their area? I worry mainly about my chickens who consume far more feed that I cannot get off the land. I have stock piled for 30 days but I may go back today and buy another 30 days worth...

What ?

How much do your chooks eat ?

I had some in family asking me all the time years ago to get chook feed, they have thousands x more land than me & less chooks, they said they eat it like crazy, I said, yeah, so feed them something else...

Ours get all leftovers of course, and any other spoiled feed, some green scraps, or whatever, I keep them couped up and job they have is to make soil via composting scraps and waste and give us some eggs.....I ain't runnin to no store for them !

Do you have enough feed for you cowgal ? lol

 

[CG1]

Learning to get by without going to the feed store is one of the most important things in learning to be profitable.

Couldn’t with my hens. Too many. My cows would be fine with no grain.

 

[CG1]

The local feed stores are saying they will likely shut down. I spent my weekend stock piling feed like some sort of crazy preparer. Few months ago the snow took them out and it got scary for me there for a week. Anyone else seeing this in their area? I worry mainly about my chickens who consume far more feed that I cannot get off the land. I have stock piled for 30 days but I may go back today and buy another 30 days worth...

What ?

How much do your chooks eat ?

I had some in family asking me all the time years ago to get chook feed, they have thousands x more land than me & less chooks, they said they eat it like crazy, I said, yeah, so feed them something else...

Ours get all leftovers of course, and any other spoiled feed, some green scraps, or whatever, I keep them couped up and job they have is to make soil via composting scraps and waste and give us some eggs.....I ain't runnin to no store for them !

Do you have enough feed for you cowgal ? lol

If I gave my 400 hens 24/7 roam to eat they’d all be dead. We are surrounded by big birds. I need lots of feed for those girls. Well 50x20kgs a month.

 

[greggy]

Well 400 is not a few chooks for eggs...

I get a lot of waste....i feed 15 with only a tiny portion...if I had 400...I would give them a bin or two a week...

The corona panic means I have more waste......so I do not have to stock pile....am throwing some out atm.....

Find out if you can get some waste maybe....those bags are buck plus per kilo here

 

[callmefence]

Learning to get by without going to the feed store is one of the most important things in learning to be profitable.

Couldn’t with my hens. Too many. My cows would be fine with no grain.

You can buy grain in other ways than sacks.
We buy corn once a year. Right out of the combine, usually less than half the price of the feed store.

 

[CG1]

Learning to get by without going to the feed store is one of the most important things in learning to be profitable.

Couldn’t with my hens. Too many. My cows would be fine with no grain.

You can buy grain in other ways than sacks.
We buy corn once a year. Right out of the combine, usually less than half the price of the feed store.

We have a lot of rats here. Our biggest issue is keeping food from rats. We stock as much as we can but too much brings an insane rodent issue.

Also not all of my farms are equipped to manage a tot of grain which is what we call it. Not all the ability to lift a ton with machinery which is what id need where I am to buy in bulk.

 

[Ky cowboy]

Couldn’t with my hens. Too many. My cows would be fine with no grain.

You can buy grain in other ways than sacks.
We buy corn once a year. Right out of the combine, usually less than half the price of the feed store.

We have a lot of rats here. Our biggest issue is keeping food from rats. We stock as much as we can but too much brings an insane rodent issue.

Also not all of my farms are equipped to manage a tot of grain which is what we call it. Not all the ability to lift a ton with machinery which is what id need where I am to buy in bulk.

I took an old chest deep freeze that didnt work and use it for chicken feed and dog food storage. Yous be amazed at how much it will hold if you dump the feed in. I dressed it up by putting wood around it like a fence where you cant see an old nasty freezer setting in the barn.

 

[CG1]

You can buy grain in other ways than sacks.
We buy corn once a year. Right out of the combine, usually less than half the price of the feed store.

We have a lot of rats here. Our biggest issue is keeping food from rats. We stock as much as we can but too much brings an insane rodent issue.

Also not all of my farms are equipped to manage a tot of grain which is what we call it. Not all the ability to lift a ton with machinery which is what id need where I am to buy in bulk.

I took an old chest deep freeze that didnt work and use it for chicken feed and dog food storage. Yous be amazed at how much it will hold if you dump the feed in. I dressed it up by putting wood around it like a fence where you cant see an old nasty freezer setting in the barn.

I use something similar but with old fish tots. But that wouldn’t even last me the week... and through winter the rats always find their way in.