Food, Glorious Food!

One major component to the weekend was a ROAD TRIP.

Rod and his Dad and I jumped into the black truck

and headed north to a cute little town called

Samsula.

It's a farming community.

With a little school, some churches, LOTS of farms,

and a couple of feed mills.

Rod had already done all the phone research.

(Remember his superpower...)

But we stopped in at the first mill, just in case.

Nope.

Too expensive.

On, up the road, to a mill they've been running in their family for 50 years

(this November)

He used to run 35,000 chickens!

He said the day after he sold them all and they were gone,

he came out of the house in the morning,

sat in a chair in his yard 

and thought

"Wow!  It's QUIET out here!"

LOL

We had a great visit with him.

He was a really nice older gentleman.

Full of knowledge and life.

And vinegar.

He and Rod got along perfectly!

Meanwhile, his "boys" loaded us up.

We got 700 pounds of chicken feed. (Layer)

And 300 pounds of horse feed (10% sweet)

BOY could you smell that molasses!

YUM!

After a quick stop at Burger King for lunch

we headed back home.

Luckily Kyle was home.

I'm pretty sure I would have been NO help unloading those barrels.

That's a LOT of feed!

They had to rearrange the feed room in the barn.

But it looks good in there.

Should last 8 weeks.

(For the chickens, no idea how long the horse feed will last)

I just bought 100# of horse pellet,

so for now I'm mixing it 50/50

and then I'll feed it straight.

They LOVE it though.

Duh.

The bucket system hanging in the front is my fermented feed.

More about that later.

It's beautiful feed.

The girls love it.

So EVERYBODY is happy.

Especially ME!