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Oct 9th
Got the 6 others quartered. Didn't debone, water was being used to fill troughs.
Redid my cage chart. Wanting to cull more out, but need to update charts first to compare.
Oct 10th
Been thinking of moving the buns in here since last year. Unused space.
Started to clean it up.
Looks like all of the regular stackers will fit, then I'd have to decide what to do with the odd ones. Some I can piece together to stack, others I might sell to potentially buy a stacker to fit.
Door and wall may flip sides in the end.
But first, I need to find a way to seal up the silo!!
Pigeons fill it with poop, nature fills it with rain & snow. Once sealed, I'll add a little heater to help keep it above freezing so water stays liquid. Like in my previous barn-shed years ago. I hate dealing with frozen water & dragging new water around in winter.
Not sure if I'm doing the math right, but I'm going to switch to 16% vs 18%. I believe this is how much I'll save per order.
I used to buy 20 bags when they were 50# each. Now they're 40#, so I buy 30 bags at a time. But if I switch to 16%, it's sold in 50# bags, so I'll probably go back to 20 bags.
$17.49÷40#=
$0.43725 per pound.
$18.39÷50#=
$0.3678 per pound.
0.43725×50#=
$21.8625 for 50 pounds.
21.8625-18.39=
$3.4725 per bag difference.
Buy 20 bags, save $69.45.
Buy 30 bags, save $104.175.
I seem to buy 3 times a year, roughly. So, yearly savings of either one below.
208.35
312.525
And I'm hoping that I can decide on a few adults to cull out, further reducing costs.
Oct 11th
Ordered adjustable water nipples. Not seeing any change in flow. Wtf.
Got clamps as well for the ones that seem to leak at the connection.
Oct 12th
And some culls moved & posted, plus one fed as breakfast.
![Screenshot_20231120_195047_Chrome.jpg Screenshot_20231120_195047_Chrome.jpg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102270-63ebe6c5d7d13eca07dc5a1cd9ce589e.jpg)
Oct 13th
Weighed some more litters and removed the lightest ones.
And decided on 2 sisters. This one was worse than the other, so away she goes.
Sexed the other ones.
And that cute broken otter buck, he bit me, so he chose to be culled.![Frown :( :(](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Pelt in freezer, going to try to save the feet.
Everyone is a little witchy today! But no one else bruised or broke skin, so I didn't cull them.
Moved Obscure to cull cage.
Removed Rusty to have a chat with her about attitude and posed her again.
Much nicer!
![35103-3753611663e747672cdfea069158a559.jpeg 35103-3753611663e747672cdfea069158a559.jpeg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102271-99a1e4df1ec072cb961252f38f09fd77.jpg)
Posing some others. I think I need to let the Freckles rex go...
![Screenshot_20231120_195359_Chrome.jpg Screenshot_20231120_195359_Chrome.jpg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102272-f9e42c68051629e19ae4f240799bd246.jpg)
Other keepers.
![Screenshot_20231120_195515_Chrome.jpg Screenshot_20231120_195515_Chrome.jpg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102273-3c4cebdd2411b2aef02a1d181db5d3cf.jpg)
![Screenshot_20231120_195531_Chrome.jpg Screenshot_20231120_195531_Chrome.jpg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102274-8dc7666f6650507c253ca68e6a6059f0.jpg)
Hoping to keep this little blue otter buck kit.![Slightly smiling face :slight_smile: 🙂](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
![Screenshot_20231120_195727_Chrome.jpg Screenshot_20231120_195727_Chrome.jpg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102275-afc596fcbe2ca349e67552a9c9271146.jpg)
"Wait, this one's still hopping. Can't monch."
Oct 17th
Moved Zero n kits to the stackers. And Lynx n kits to a stacker. The big cage will be taken down. The other cage will be stored for culls or sold. Shouldn't of bought those other cages, lol. Gotta down size!
Baymax
Oct 18th
Yep. Uncle watching the kids. Tiny escape artists. Lucky for them, he's the nice uncle.
![35129-ed0b624603fc46ed70f73f5c14677c69.jpeg 35129-ed0b624603fc46ed70f73f5c14677c69.jpeg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102278-6ffeef93c4439fd5ed10a939674c40bd.jpg)
Oct 19th
$597 in the red.
20 in poop sales & about 50 in dogfood meals makes it...
Currently $527 in the red.
Oct 20th
$527 in the red plus 4 buns sold at 80, makes it...
Currently $447 in the red.
Ivory buck, obscure doe, a broken black doe kit and a black buck kit off the feed bill.
Rex doe rescheduled for tomorrow pickup.
Leaves 5 culls left for the pup. Meanie still left to cull or eat.
One broken kit sold, other was to decide between them.
![35134-d780f55f445aa7f488add1e61794e0e7.jpeg 35134-d780f55f445aa7f488add1e61794e0e7.jpeg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102279-c9b29f0f3f8ac6bd9189bb68ffd1d545.jpg)
Got the 6 others quartered. Didn't debone, water was being used to fill troughs.
Redid my cage chart. Wanting to cull more out, but need to update charts first to compare.
Oct 10th
Been thinking of moving the buns in here since last year. Unused space.
Started to clean it up.
Looks like all of the regular stackers will fit, then I'd have to decide what to do with the odd ones. Some I can piece together to stack, others I might sell to potentially buy a stacker to fit.
Door and wall may flip sides in the end.
But first, I need to find a way to seal up the silo!!
Pigeons fill it with poop, nature fills it with rain & snow. Once sealed, I'll add a little heater to help keep it above freezing so water stays liquid. Like in my previous barn-shed years ago. I hate dealing with frozen water & dragging new water around in winter.
Not sure if I'm doing the math right, but I'm going to switch to 16% vs 18%. I believe this is how much I'll save per order.
I used to buy 20 bags when they were 50# each. Now they're 40#, so I buy 30 bags at a time. But if I switch to 16%, it's sold in 50# bags, so I'll probably go back to 20 bags.
$17.49÷40#=
$0.43725 per pound.
$18.39÷50#=
$0.3678 per pound.
0.43725×50#=
$21.8625 for 50 pounds.
21.8625-18.39=
$3.4725 per bag difference.
Buy 20 bags, save $69.45.
Buy 30 bags, save $104.175.
I seem to buy 3 times a year, roughly. So, yearly savings of either one below.
208.35
312.525
And I'm hoping that I can decide on a few adults to cull out, further reducing costs.
Oct 11th
Ordered adjustable water nipples. Not seeing any change in flow. Wtf.
Got clamps as well for the ones that seem to leak at the connection.
Oct 12th
And some culls moved & posted, plus one fed as breakfast.
![Screenshot_20231120_195047_Chrome.jpg Screenshot_20231120_195047_Chrome.jpg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102270-63ebe6c5d7d13eca07dc5a1cd9ce589e.jpg)
Oct 13th
Weighed some more litters and removed the lightest ones.
And decided on 2 sisters. This one was worse than the other, so away she goes.
Sexed the other ones.
And that cute broken otter buck, he bit me, so he chose to be culled.
Pelt in freezer, going to try to save the feet.
Everyone is a little witchy today! But no one else bruised or broke skin, so I didn't cull them.
Moved Obscure to cull cage.
Removed Rusty to have a chat with her about attitude and posed her again.
Much nicer!
![35103-3753611663e747672cdfea069158a559.jpeg 35103-3753611663e747672cdfea069158a559.jpeg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102271-99a1e4df1ec072cb961252f38f09fd77.jpg)
Posing some others. I think I need to let the Freckles rex go...
![Screenshot_20231120_195359_Chrome.jpg Screenshot_20231120_195359_Chrome.jpg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102272-f9e42c68051629e19ae4f240799bd246.jpg)
Other keepers.
![Screenshot_20231120_195515_Chrome.jpg Screenshot_20231120_195515_Chrome.jpg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102273-3c4cebdd2411b2aef02a1d181db5d3cf.jpg)
![Screenshot_20231120_195531_Chrome.jpg Screenshot_20231120_195531_Chrome.jpg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102274-8dc7666f6650507c253ca68e6a6059f0.jpg)
Hoping to keep this little blue otter buck kit.
![Slightly smiling face :slight_smile: 🙂](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png)
![Screenshot_20231120_195727_Chrome.jpg Screenshot_20231120_195727_Chrome.jpg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102275-afc596fcbe2ca349e67552a9c9271146.jpg)
"Wait, this one's still hopping. Can't monch."
Oct 17th
Moved Zero n kits to the stackers. And Lynx n kits to a stacker. The big cage will be taken down. The other cage will be stored for culls or sold. Shouldn't of bought those other cages, lol. Gotta down size!
Baymax
Oct 18th
Yep. Uncle watching the kids. Tiny escape artists. Lucky for them, he's the nice uncle.
![35129-ed0b624603fc46ed70f73f5c14677c69.jpeg 35129-ed0b624603fc46ed70f73f5c14677c69.jpeg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102278-6ffeef93c4439fd5ed10a939674c40bd.jpg)
Oct 19th
$597 in the red.
20 in poop sales & about 50 in dogfood meals makes it...
Currently $527 in the red.
Oct 20th
$527 in the red plus 4 buns sold at 80, makes it...
Currently $447 in the red.
Ivory buck, obscure doe, a broken black doe kit and a black buck kit off the feed bill.
Rex doe rescheduled for tomorrow pickup.
Leaves 5 culls left for the pup. Meanie still left to cull or eat.
One broken kit sold, other was to decide between them.
![35134-d780f55f445aa7f488add1e61794e0e7.jpeg 35134-d780f55f445aa7f488add1e61794e0e7.jpeg](https://www.backyardherds.com/data/attachments/102/102279-c9b29f0f3f8ac6bd9189bb68ffd1d545.jpg)