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Hay, dammit!
Sep. 22nd, 2009 12:15 pmThis is getting really frustrating, not to mention risky.
It's bad enough that our regular supplier quit making hay without telling us or responding to a half dozen phone calls about it back in June. But now we can't find anyone to sell us hay at any price. One nearby place offered it at double the price we'd been paying, plus delivery charge, and we agreed to try a hundred bales. He was supposed to bring them today, didn't show up.
Called him, he "forgot." Now it's raining, so no delivery today. We have enough left for about a week at most.
Calls to two or three other places that have advertisements just get answering machines and no return calls. One of them says in their message that they "return all calls within 24 hours." No, they don't. We've been trying them for two weeks now.
Anyone want some sheep? I have eight smallish ones, decent wool producers. Mixed breed, Southdown-Finn-Merino mostly. If you can house and feed them, I'll give them to you. If things get bad enough, I'll have to send them to slaughter and we'd much rather avoid that if possible.
My three horses are a different story. Somehow I have to keep them. We'd consider selling the two geldings to a good home, but in the present economy that's not likely to happen. Tess is mine and I'm keeping her.
I'd actually consider buying a semi load of hay from farther away, except that I know the truck couldn't get in and out of our drive. I don't know what to try next.
It's bad enough that our regular supplier quit making hay without telling us or responding to a half dozen phone calls about it back in June. But now we can't find anyone to sell us hay at any price. One nearby place offered it at double the price we'd been paying, plus delivery charge, and we agreed to try a hundred bales. He was supposed to bring them today, didn't show up.
Called him, he "forgot." Now it's raining, so no delivery today. We have enough left for about a week at most.
Calls to two or three other places that have advertisements just get answering machines and no return calls. One of them says in their message that they "return all calls within 24 hours." No, they don't. We've been trying them for two weeks now.
Anyone want some sheep? I have eight smallish ones, decent wool producers. Mixed breed, Southdown-Finn-Merino mostly. If you can house and feed them, I'll give them to you. If things get bad enough, I'll have to send them to slaughter and we'd much rather avoid that if possible.
My three horses are a different story. Somehow I have to keep them. We'd consider selling the two geldings to a good home, but in the present economy that's not likely to happen. Tess is mine and I'm keeping her.
I'd actually consider buying a semi load of hay from farther away, except that I know the truck couldn't get in and out of our drive. I don't know what to try next.
