Okla rabbit feed got jacked up

[FarmboyBill]

Got a rude awakeing this morning. Went to get rabbit feed. The dealer I had bought from said that when he went to phone in his order to Munding Feed Co, they told him they were out of business. He then called Shawnee Feed in Shawnee Okla. They had it, but to buy a thousand lbs of Shawnee will cost me $41 more per thousand. OUCH

[Tracy Rimmer]

What are you feeding them, FBB? Is it rabbit pellets, or a grain/hay mix?

[Shygal]

How many rabbits do you have?

[FarmboyBill]

Im feeding rabbit pellets, and SG I have round 125 rabbits different ages, with around 15 due next month. Ill be selling around 50 one side or the other 2 mo bucks the first Sat of the month at the sale I go to.

[uncle Will in In.]

Why are you feeding Jack Rabbits??

[SquashNut]

all the feed is going up!

[Pony]

Do you have an MFA near you? Here's a store locator:
http://www.mfa-inc.com/StoreLocator.aspx

They always have what I need rabbit-wise.

[arcticow]

Bill, sounds more like th' folks feedin' rabbits are th' ones gettin' jacked up!!

[Tracy Rimmer]

You might want to check the 16% dairy ration price. I feed the non-medicated to my rabbits, and give them free-choice alfalfa bales, as well. I checked the label on a bag of the dairy ration I had for my goats, and compared it to the rabbit pellets -- it was almost the same thing, only not in pellet form. I started feeding it to the rabbits, too, and they love it. The dairy ration might be cheaper than the pellets in your area -- I know it is here.

One thing you have to supplement is the salt. The pellets have salt, but the dairy ration doesn't. Chip a hunk off of a mineral block and toss it in the rabbit run -- they'll take it from there. They do need the salt, or your does will start killing their kits.

[FarmboyBill]

Yeah TR My boy suggested that very thing tonight and ill check into it. I hate feeding salt as sooner or later it causes the wire to rust out below it. But a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.

Unc, I didnt say I was feeding Jacks rabbits. Im havein a hard enough time feeding mine. Jack can worry bout his own, along with Tom Dicks and harrys

[FarmboyBill]

PONY I tried useing your store locator. If you know how to use it, my zip is 74010. Where they had their stick pin was at an area close but how close? to 48 hwy, and aways from 16 hwy, both of which im familiar, But they dont give a store name or number to get exact location OR quotes.

[SquashNut]

I buy the loose salt and feed it in bowls with some of the grain once a week.
The salt I buy is the selinium cattle salt with other minerals.
we have gone to grain and hay too.

[braggscowboy]

FBB, my brother, as well as I, from time to time would buy at Munding, in business before statehood. Last of old timers died about a year ago and the girl was trying run it, may not of needed the money, who knows. They have not tried to sell it. My brother would buy several hundred pounds a week and she said they would be closing and the next week, they were closed. He now goes to Tahlequah at the Co-op. Feed is about the same, just a littler higher. Not from Shawnee Mills, I don't think. The feed comes from a mill somewhere North of Tahlequah, I think on 82 Hwy., Maybe Spring something, maybe Spring Creek. If you need to know more, let me know and I will ask him.

[Kshobbit]

FBB there is a post on craigslist from the place in Nowata, that used to just sell goat feed and supplies. They listed rabbit feed 17% for $8.95 a bag. Their chicken feed was cheaper too. It is a drive from my place but I might go there and buy some. I am paying $11.50 a bag for Purina rabbit feed in Severy,KS and about the same for layer crumbles.

[FarmboyBill]

That would be around 90/100 miles from here. I wonder if they were getting their feed from Munding also?? Mundings outa Muskogee., I can get it here at the new price of $11.50 per bag. That saves me $2.50. 1000# = 20bags. That would save me $30, But in my big Dodge 3/4 ton, Id likely use up near that in driveing there and back., As I stated above, My boy checked out the feed at Talala, which is this side of Nowata. Its bulk, and its goat feed. Bulks ok in one respect, and not so in another. In bulk, I have to keep it in my grain bin which is around 50ft from my rabbits, and id be hauling up 2, 5 gal buckets thereabouts a day, and im getting a bit old to be doing that, and I aint gonna get much younger. Haveing it in a bag is ok cause #1, I can keep it in my feed shed which is right up against my rabbits. #2. The empty bags are just about enough with whatever trash I have to use in the wood cookstove for my morning eggs,

My big feed expenditure is in these small rabbits. 75 of them. They waste ALOT, Ill sell them at the sale this comeing Fri, or at least all the bucks, which should comprise 1/2 to 2/3s of the 75. People on the rabbit forum said that my feeders was too low for young bunnies and theyed waste the feed, which is true as I found out. I usta feed 4 tuna cans of feed morn and night a cage, with 5, 2 mo olds to a cage, Most of them wouldnt have any of mornings feeding left by choretime in the evening. Now, this week, I tried feeding 1 tuna can every hour or 2, and I found that they usually from the first feeding to the second most of them had a bit of feed left in the feeder. From second to third, Most would have the feed 1/2 way up the screen. From 3 to 4th, it would be at or above the screen. I dont feed if I cant see light at the top of the screen.
SO, Im saveing thereabouts 1/2 of my feed by doing this, although, its kinda a pain in thereabouts to have to pay attention to the time and stop what im doin to go feed the youngins. Well, only 5 more days. The does I save, Ill keep together in a bigger cage which feeder in it is around 4in up until they get too big then ill bring them back to the cages there in now, and they should be old enough not to waste it, and theyll be one or 2 to a cage, so there wont be as much grabbing a bite and loseing it.