Latestarter's ramblings/musings/gripes and grumbles.

[Latestarter]

Think maybe that's GB's dad with him and twin bro on/in the saddle. Had to be pretty uncomfortable for whomever is sitting up on the back of the saddle... Probably wasn't all that comfy for the horse either...

 

[greybeard]

No, that's me, several decades ago, with my twin boys--maybe 2 yrs old...I was still in USN at the time, so it had to be sometime before '78. Pretty sure that was on my one of sister's apps. I sat on the back of the saddle just for the pic so I could hold them in saddle and not have to worry about one of them nudging the horse on the neck with their foot. The one in front was holding to the saddle horn for dear life..probably the highest off the ground he had ever been at that time.
I have another from the same week, (not scanned yet) of them & their 2 yr older sister sitting on my father's brahma herd sire with me standing beside. Not even a rope on the bull. Kinda scares me to look back at it now, but he was a very docile bull.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

That’s interesting that you are a twin and had twins!

 

[greybeard]

My daughter also has twin boys and I have twin cousins. (Did anyway..my twin cousins are now deceased)

 

[Pastor Dave]

Not a like on the cousins part, but the above average occurrence of multiples.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

Wow! I wonder if there will be another generation with twins! That might be a Guinness World Record.

 

[Latestarter]

So I opened the last of 2 bags of dumor feed tonight and started mixing it with the new stuff. This crap was packaged back in August and it had clumps of moldy pellets at the top of the bag when I opened it. NOT happy... Got all the mold clumps out that I could find. Won't be going back to dumor or TSC for feed again any time soon. Wondering how bad the last bag will be. Probably won't be opening that until Thursday or Friday. Had several little rain squalls move through today. Didn't even register in the rain gauge. Looks like a chance of more overnight and more forecast as poss through tomorrow and tomorrow night.

 

[Mike CHS]

We had an issue with TSC chicken feed that was moldy when we poured it into our barrel. We took the barrel and the bag and hauled it back to TSC for them to rebag and give us a refund. The thing is we wouldn't have found the mold if we hadn't poured it out since it was in the bottom 1/4 of the bag. They gave a refund and told us they had made arrangements with the vendor to resolve those issues but we found another source.

 

[farmerjan]

I would not have mixed it in, I would have immediately put it back in the bag, with the moldy clumps visible, and taken it back. They would reimburse you. I am not saying that their feed is junk..... I got a couple bags of pellets from our local mill where I get my feed... 2 bags I did not get in the can for a week. By the time I did get them opened, they had moldy spots. This feed rarely sits on their floor for a week at the mill. We have to move the bulk bin before I can get the bulk feed I normally get; and haven't had but 2 nurse cows in the barn until this past week.
It is the dampness and the humidity that is causing some of it. I have gotten some of their feed on occasion, especially if I am going by a pasture on my way home from town and don't have a couple of buckets of feed with me.... saves me a trip home and back. Of course, we do not regularly feed at pasture, just a "treat" type thing to call them in to the catch pen to keep them coming in and calmer. With most of y'all, your animals are "pets" compared to our beef cattle. And I try to keep my nurse cows on the same feed all the time, but the ones out at pasture will eat most any kind that we give them since it is more like a treat than a "feeding". They don't need the feed when the grass is growing.

 

[Mike CHS]

That's one of the things I like about having a custom feed mill. We call and give them a date that we want and the feed is bagged up the day before we pick it up.