KMS Hayloft
Mine will be bagged and indoors. I didn't hoard a single thing through the pandemic, but the thought of no hay is scary enough to make me start. If the hay suffers, then the pellets will too. Esp. because it probably won't be just hay that takes a hit, but the other ingredients will too. Heat, drought, extreme weather, fires... the future looks pretty rough.
Can I indulge in a bit of worst case scenario thinking? If the GP food situation were to really deteriorate, my thought would be to be prepared as best I can. If pellet making is out of reach, my next thought is making a porridge sort of thing, similar to what I now feed my pig who had stones, except I would try to approximate the composition of good pellets as best I can. How does this sound? I'm thinking of things I see in the pellet ingredient lists, like hay first, and not in any order: flax meal, maybe pea flour, brewer's yeast, some dehydrated vegetables, molasses, maybe some dehydrated herbs, etc. I would appreciate any thoughts.
Yeah, I think vitamin C would be pretty easy. I would probably go with a liquid. I am wondering about coming up with a substitute for pellets. If you or anyone were to go the route of concocting something, what sort of approach would you take and what ingredients would you use? It seems to me that if hay became scarce or really poor quality, others ingredients would be in the same boat, and pellets would decline in quality and nutrition. I would think having stuff like flax seeds or flax meal in the freezer would be good, as would a bunch of other things that would make for a good feed for pigs.
- Sef
- I dissent.
I received my order of KMS yesterday from a third party seller on Amazon.com. Haven't opened it yet; it took 5 days to get here, which wasn't too bad. I think if KMS becomes scarce I will likely switch to Oxbow GS, and maybe just cut down on it. There is no way any of my guys would eat some sort of sludge/mush/whatever that I might try to make myself. I tried this in the past with handfeeding formula, and it was a massive Fail.
- RavenShade
- Thanks for the Memories
I use Oxbow for pellets. For my hay, I make sure it's in a cardboard box but not in the bags as I feel the bags keep in moisture. Worse comes I would see about buying a bale or two off the stables where Junior rides.