Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[farmerjan]

Our feed mill is the same way, as far as saying I am coming so & so, & it is made that day or at most the day before. Our bulk feed is ordered by the ton and I call and say I would like it delivered on such and such... or I call and say when you are coming to the zoo or someone in this direction, I need this. So I get an "early order" discount, I get bulk feed price (no bags) and it gets made that morning or perhaps the night before if the truck is leaving early. Still, even with what they keep "on the floor" it is seldom there more than a few days.

I realize that TSC has to truck it from centralized feed mill locations etc., but with the horrendous wet conditions we have had, the high humidity, and the loading and unloading of the trucks, I still think they do a decent job of providing feed. It is up to the buyer's discriminating needs to get the best feed for what they are doing. I've seen some feed from another feed mill that I wouldn't feed to my animals....and gotten mold and once a whole "hatch" of a horrible beetle in a bag of their feed.
They replaced it and told me to take it and feed it to my chickens if I wanted. They loved the live protein.
Purina has a reputation of having very good feed, but it is all made at a dedicated plant and trucked.

 

[Latestarter]

It was the last of the most recent date bags they had (early Aug). The others were 1/2 a pallet stored up high on a shelf in the back room, not cooled with AC, dated back the beginning of July. I needed some to mix with the new. The whole bag wasn't bad, just the top couple of inches. Luckily it had clumped up so was easily seen and removed. If the next bag is like that, I will return it and just swap over to the new stuff, mixed in with whatever is left in the barrel at that time.

The new pellets look and smell really nice. I'm sure the goats will love them and eat them just fine. Don't expect any digestive issues with the swap over. They're liking the new mixed hay as well. They dig down to get at the alfalfa leaves/pieces that sift down to the bottom of the feed buckets, but then eat all the orchard grass, even the most part of what they push out of the bowl onto the ground. Generally I find maybe a fist full sized pile of alfalfa powder left in the bottoms of the feed bowls when I collect them up. and a handful of stems on the ground that are more like straw than grass.

Had signed on and just begun reading Jan's first post, and we had a 2-3 second power outage. Strong fast moving line of T-storms was approaching from the SE, moving NW. Took a bit for the internet connection to come back and power now seems stable. Not out of the rain yet as there's all the stuff back behind the line to pass over yet. West and central TX is getting pounded. If @AClark were still with us I'd be telling her to get her flood boots ready as it's all headed her way. She shouldn't be needing to worry about drought. Both the dogs are lounging out on the family room floor. All of the goats are under the floor of the "to be" goat palace. Well, not all... the boys are in their little hut.

 

[Rammy]

Did something happen to @AClark or did they just quit BYH?
I got some bad pellets for the chickens once at the Amish place where I get their layer mash. It was completely molded. Fed it to the cows. Probably not a good idea but its a long trip up there and the gas wasted to take it back wasnt worth it. When I poured the bag out you could tell. Mixed it with some sweet feed and cows ate it up. That was weeks ago and cows are fine.
Never had a problem with TSC except once years ago with feed. Took it back and they gave me a replacement. At least you didnt have to throw out the whole bag.

 

[farmerjan]

Looks like you all are going to get a real storm out of that hurricane Michael. It is cloudy here but will hopefully burn off in awhile. We aren't supposed to see any real "rain clouds " from it until this eve as the bands work their way inland. It looks to be a fairly fast moving one. Hope anyone who needs it gets some rain out of it and that it doesn't sit on top of anyone to get too much. We are hoping to be able to sq bale some orchard grass early this aft if it will at least get sunny for a couple of hours and burn off the damp.

 

[greybeard]

West and central TX is getting pounded

They need it. Still pretty far behind for the year.
I was in San Angelo looking at real estate yesterday. They've had rain this year, but still not what is needed. Lakes are still low except Lake Nasworthy.

 

[Latestarter]

I was in San Angelo looking at real estate yesterday.

So your prospect of selling the present place and moving back to a place/area/environment you more prefer is coming to be? Good luck in finding the ideal property for you!

 

[greybeard]

I prefer to get & move to the new place first, tho that will mean I'll have to make return trips here to close on this one whenever. I may just lease this one out.

 

[Latestarter]

Either way, was more commenting on you finding the right place to go to. If you don't, you still have the place you're already in...

 

[greybeard]

Either way, was more commenting on you finding the right place to go to. If you don't, you still have the place you're already in...

yep.
I'm not terribly particular tho. Rough or finished, either will work as long as it already has a house on it and access to water..either well or natural.

(If this house wasn't oversize and over height, I'd look into having it moved but too tall and wide and too far)

 

[Latestarter]

OK, so I decided to pan fry the goat ribs I got from @Devonviolet . I used a high temp initially to sear them and seasoned with a little accent, onion pwdr, and garlic pwdr, cooked in butter and bacon fat. They came out very tasty and tender. There was very little meat though. Little medallions of meat which I cut out and enjoyed. I've saved the fat scraps for the dogs but there wasn't really enough to make a meal for them either, so I'll add to them and they'll get it as a treat with dinner when there's enough.