Sping means the farm store is open again 💕🌾

Well . . now THAT's what I call an attention-getting banner. I was actually going to check on the situation with live chicks, but I appreciate the heads-up about bees. "Pre-order your live bees today" It's practically poetry.

Pre-order your live

Bees today to help with your

Pollination needs

Decided to skip class today because I don't have the spoons for it and I simultaneously feel like a rebel and a slacker.

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Beeper when I first brought her home. For those of you who don't know Beeper was given to me for free by the farm store because she was actively dying. She was flipped onto her back and getting trampled by the other chicks. I didn't think she would make it during the ride back home or the next few days but she did. Basically she was on recycled coffee ground bedding and had injested a large amount while being a very young day old chick. While recycled coffee ground bedding says on the bag that all caffeine in extracted so it's "safe" there is no regulation and it is still an impaction risk in chickens regardless. Not only that it can cause ammonia build up which can damage a birds lungs and skin.

In Beepers case it caused severe constipation due to dehydration. If she didn't have a strong will she wouldn't have made it but she did pass it eventually and began eating and drinking on her own soon after.

So anyway you repeatedly say we only feel corn husks and similar inedible parts to cattle but Never add a source to back it up. Having worked on farms I’m afraid for the most part the feeds I’ve seen have been parts entirely edible to humans. And like fuck man 5% of all grown soy is fed to humans or however the stat goes, do you really think the remaining 95% is inedible? really?

Anyway yeah I’m asking for a source here cause I don’t want to add this on to months old post

Ingredients such as “grain by-products” are referring to the husks, stalks, and other “green” parts of the plant that we humans don’t actually have the digestive capabilities to eat. The breakdown of most livestock feeds looks like the above when you actually take a look at it.

Different cattle feed, similar ingredients. Still primarily things that, and I have to stress this, you cannot eat. This one is slightly higher in quality and does indeed have actual grain products included. Some of those are edible to humans. Some are not. Generally cattle are fed cattle cubes with supplemental mineral licks and hay. Some also supplement with whole corn, but I can gladly assure you that corn is not in short supply and even if all the corn sold to animal feed was donated to the poor, you can’t actually live off of corn because there’s very little nutrition in it. Hence why in both human and animal food it’s typically seen as a filler ingredient. Keeps the mouth busy with a meal without making your stomach feel full and you end up eating more without feeling satisfied.

Soybeans are really only often used in feed for pigs because they’re a great source of protein for these animals. I would state that soy is also a terrible option to use as an emergency food for humans in need because while, yes, it is indeed a healthy bean, it’s also one of the top eight foods that humans are frequently allergic or intolerant towards. I’d also ask you for whether your 5% of all grown soy statistic is referring to the beans or the entire plant because yeah the beans are the edible part. The rest of the plant isn't especially healthy for humans to eat. I would say the beans are around 5% of a mature soy plant sure.

falling to my knees in the farm supply store and wailing bc all their bags of pine pellets got wet.

“Cottage butter” Purbeck Ceramics mug (1980s)

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Mumbo’s building a slime farm in his second episode how cool!

Hold on a minute… I’ve seen this one before….

This is such a great idea.

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Local farm store my beloved

Cotton print, thrifted

People using calculators is extremely problematic. I spent 10 year studying math, and now you’re just whipping out a computer and claiming “oooh, I can add together large numbers. Hey guess what the square root of 961 is?”

We spent centuries developing mathematical techniques, and now you think you can use cheap silicon instead of paying us?

Don’t even get me started on email. Apparently some people have a serious issue respecting the post office and think everyone who delivers mail should die in a ditch.

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