Invasion of my reloading shed

[KFhunter]

anyone raise Jersey Giants?

hoping they're big enough eagles don't carry em off, want to run them in a 3ac pasture with some cows in it.   Meat +  Eggs.

[jasnt]

anyone raise Jersey Giants?

hoping they're big enough eagles don't carry em off, want to run them in a 3ac pasture with some cows in it.   Meat +  Eggs.

my uncle is breeding jersey giants.  Prob won’t have chicks till latter in the spring. How many were you thinking

[KFhunter]

I dunno yet.   Still got some work to do to get ready

[Whitpirate]

Friend of mine down in Council, ID swears by her Jersey Giants.  Good dual purpose breed and hardy to -20F this winter.

[KFhunter]

I'm gonna do this, I can get a bunch of IBC totes on my deck over gooseneck then off load with the tractor and forks and stack them up in a shipping container or just tarp them. 
Thinking about making lids though.  Then when I need to refill the hog feeder I can lift the IBC with the tractor and pour directly into the feeder with the slide gate.


I wonder how many IBC totes I need to hold 1 ton super sack worth of hog feed?  1.5 bins?   I'll do 4 IBC totes and buy 2 tons at a time to start. 

9" slide gate plenty big

https://www.runnings.com/smv-industries-grain-gate-9-x-9-99.html
https://www.farmandfleet.com/products/g--617-smv-industries-grain-gate.html



mount to the side opposite of the spigot. 

[jasnt]

That’s slick!

[KFhunter]

another thing that can be done is get a 2 inch bulb auger for planting tulips or garlic,  that 2 inch auger will fit in the spigot opening if you remove the shut off valve,  hook the auger to a drill and fill a 5 gallon bucket pretty quickly. 




this guy just leaves the auger in the hole, so he's made that green bar mount to hold the auger in place so corn doesn't trickle out.

[nwwanderer]

Drill auger will get about 75% if it is 4 feet, slide door will get less than 50% and still be to heavy to tip.  Mount it at a 45 degree angle, should work slick.  Will hold about 1500# of feed per tote.

[KFhunter]

It'll be on a tractor forks (chained so it won't slide off the forks) so I can tip it then reach my arm in and scoop out whatever's hung up in there.

now I'm thinking about a little 4" auger to fill the IBC totes so I don't have to cut the tops out, I'll see if I can get by with a big funnel and bucket this year though.

[jackelope]

@Whitpirate

[Whitpirate]

Slick but why not just build a grain bin then on an elevated stand and slope it appropriately.  The slide gate is gonna be tricky with the weight and remember with forks your past your bucket so your lifting capacity will be compromised.

[KFhunter]

The idea is to take the bin to the hog feeder/s in different paddocks, eventually.


I got two hog feeders now to keep full and tired of lugging around 55 gallon barrels.

[nwwanderer]

For all of your feeding chores, have you looked at flex augers.  Might simplify things at a possible price.  All of these critters eat and being sure they are fed properly is number 2 after water.

[jasnt]

Tomorrow I pick up the last batch of chicks for the year.  We lost one chick so currently we have 99 chicks. Moved the first batch out to the chick house which has a small hut inside a large hut. They are all doing great and growing fast.

[KFhunter]

I might get chickens next year and build chicken house this year,  don't wanna be one of those guys that bring a pile of chicks home then start building.  Things get rushed doing that.   I think I've come up with a good solution. 

I wonder if they can be trained to go through a culvert?   It would be nice to have the chicken house on one side of the driveway, but pastured on the other side.