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captpackrat) wrote2009-12-04 03:51 pm
captpackrat) wrote2009-12-04 03:51 pm
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Well fed sheep & goats
Bought 1/4 ton of animal feed today. Sounds like a lot, but it really isn't; hopefully it will be enough to get us through the winter. I had a coupon for Tractor Supply so I got 10% off. Yay.
We had on hand 150 pounds of alfalfa cubes, 50 pounds of alfalfa pellets, about 45 pounds of crystallized molasses and a few pounds of cracked corn and oats. Today I bought another 200 pounds of alfalfa pellets, 50 pounds of Dumor Sheep feed, 50 pounds of 10% sweet feed, 100 pounds of scratch feed (cracked corn, oats and sorghum), 80 pounds of beet pulp, and 18 pounds of goat protein mix.
I wish we'd bought some alfalfa bales, but it's really hard to find square bales around here; most of the farmers who raise alfalfa make giant thousand-pound round bales like these:
We don't really have any place to store bales that large and nothing that can move them around.
We had on hand 150 pounds of alfalfa cubes, 50 pounds of alfalfa pellets, about 45 pounds of crystallized molasses and a few pounds of cracked corn and oats. Today I bought another 200 pounds of alfalfa pellets, 50 pounds of Dumor Sheep feed, 50 pounds of 10% sweet feed, 100 pounds of scratch feed (cracked corn, oats and sorghum), 80 pounds of beet pulp, and 18 pounds of goat protein mix.
I wish we'd bought some alfalfa bales, but it's really hard to find square bales around here; most of the farmers who raise alfalfa make giant thousand-pound round bales like these:
We don't really have any place to store bales that large and nothing that can move them around.