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Feed Shed

By Katie - January 17, 2009, 7:14 am

This is our feed shed. Let me give you a tour. When you walk in you will see, to the left, two plastic garbage cans. The wooden shelves are actually milking stanchions that will eventually be moved out.

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The first can has “layer” in it and it has a higher protein percentage than , say, “grower” that you use to start chicks with. If hens don’t get enough protein they will not lay. We serve it with a half gallon pitcher.

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The can next to that usually has “scratch” which is a mix of grains that chickens drool over. Unfortunately, the can was empty the day I took these pictures and today the can has “cracked corn” in it which looks just like you would imagine it does and it is too cold to go out and take another picture.

As we move around the room we come to the plastic bin area where we keep rabbit feed, cat kibble, dog kibble and “sweet feed”.

This is sweet feed. It is a mixed grain feed that is covered with some sticky substance. An animal will knock you down and trample you to death for this stuff. Animals don’t really have manners.

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This is what it looks like up close. We also call this just “grain”. As in “I can’t hold this goat any longer!! Get me a bucket of grain!!” You see, the key to an herbivore’s heart is grain. You can’t feed too much or they will get sick. Ruminants were not built to eat grain.

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Ummm…someone needs to dump the rabbit feed into the proper receptacle.

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On the far right there is one other garbage can. It has 50/50 or pig food. The pig food was medicated and this is not. But, in truth, they have almost the exact same ingredients in them.

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This is 50/50. I think that means 50% corn and 50% pellets.

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See?

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And since someone asked I took a picture of the tag with the ingredients. The printing was so poor I could not really make out the words. The words I could read were things like “mixed grain” and “mixed corn”. Really descriptive like that.

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