Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[CntryBoy777]

A quick fix on the hay feeder, would be to sandwich the ends with 1x4s, 1x6s, or 2x4s put a few decking screws in and ya are good to go. Your place there is really starting to "Blossom" and become the Farm ya been dreaming of for sooo long....
If ya still have some chunks of that tree left, ya could put a few in there for them to play on too....nice and cheap...they can play stump hopskotch.

 

[Latestarter]

Thanks Fred... I had thought I could take a piece of 2x4 and drill holes to slip over the "tines", but your idea is a heckuvalot easier and faster. Saves me from cutting down another section of CP too. Think I'll rip a 2x4 lengthwise then screw the pieces together over the tines, just like you stated.

 

[goatgurl]

i'll have to get a picture tomorrow of the thing i use for a hay feeder. its the cage off a 240 gallon water tote. keeps it off the ground and everybody out of it. i have a big old tractor tire in the goat yard that is just laying flat and the babies love to play on it. girls are looking good. when you feed them give dot and bang theirs and hold a pan in your lap for april to eat out of. makes her come to you for food and gives her the idea that you'll keep her safe from the bigger girls. and since everyone else has pointed out the dangers of the points on the hay feeder i don't have to. @jackiesme uses something similar but uses snaps to hold the bottom onto the standing panel and a short piece of chain with snaps to hold the top out and in place. no sharp points and no hooks to snag an unsuspecting goat.

 

[Latestarter]

I know you've told me about the water tote cage and I saw it when I was there. I'm trying to be "frugal" at the moment as I've suffered a financial hemorrhage over the past few months... I really need to keep spending to an absolute minimum for a while if I can. I still have more animals to purchase as well as the ongoing & seems like never ending stuff.

 

[goatgurl]

the thing cost 10 bucks LS. portable, easy to use and will last for ever and ever. whats not to love

 

[Latestarter]

Haven't even got a clue where to start looking for one down here... Any ideas/leads?

 

[greybeard]

Haven't even got a clue where to start looking for one down here... Any ideas/leads?

Yep. I have one here. Come get it, but I can tell you now, you will spend more on gas coming than what you can find them for lcally. You can find them just about anywhere, including the tote for less than $50.
What she's talking about is the metal frame around this white container--check around your craigslist area.
https://texarkana.craigslist.org/search/gra?query=tote

https://dallas.craigslist.org/ndf/grd/6066504765.html

If you are going to use the container for something, make sure you ask for one that previously had 'food grade' contents in it, not like I did at first and ended up with one that was used to transport automotive brake fluid....not that it mattered, since I used it to build a herbicide sprayer.

(Last time I hauled off a load of junk, there were several cages sitting there at the salvage yard. You might check with your local scrap dealer too.)

 

[Baymule]

I know you've told me about the water tote cage and I saw it when I was there. I'm trying to be "frugal" at the moment as I've suffered a financial hemorrhage over the past few months... I really need to keep spending to an absolute minimum for a while if I can. I still have more animals to purchase as well as the ongoing & seems like never ending stuff.

Welcome to farming!!

 

[Mike CHS]

I'm pretty sure I heard this on BYH but I have heard many times now that "If you want to make a small fortune farming, start off with a large one."

I see those totes around here at several places. One of the neighbors cut out a door and uses one as a hut for his two weed eater goats.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Our local CoOp sells some kind of liquid in them, either poison, liquid fertilizer, or something else. But, when they are finished with using it, ya could probably get it for nothing. Just have to check with the local farmers that plant crops.