Author Topic: How do you store your carrots?  (Read 2792 times)

Buffy the eggs layer

  • Joined Jun 2010
How do you store your carrots?
« on: November 03, 2015, 12:16:34 pm »
Do any of you buy stock carrots by the ton and store them for feeding over winter?


 I bought a ton in Sept but the misty, humid, damp and finally foggy days seem to have turned the greater part of them to a smelly slimy pile of black and orange yuck!


We keep ours in a stable....where do you keep yours?




hughesy

  • Joined Feb 2010
  • Anglesey
Re: How do you store your carrots?
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2015, 04:18:32 pm »
I used to get carrots by the ton but don't anymore as they don't work out much cheaper than pellets by the time I've collected them. We used to go through a ton in a week so storage wasn't an issue. Just used to leave them in the crate they came in with something on top to keep the sun off.

Azzdodd

  • Joined Apr 2012
Re: How do you store your carrots?
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2015, 10:06:19 am »
I tried carrots found they went off pretty quick once a few turned the pile went quickly after. I changed offer to whole fodder as there larger they don't go off as quick an the pigs love them either way

Buffy the eggs layer

  • Joined Jun 2010
Re: How do you store your carrots?
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2015, 04:42:54 pm »
Yeah you are right about the carrots and the fodder beet. The carrots tidem e over until the fodder beet comes through

Marches Farmer

  • Joined Dec 2012
  • Herefordshire
Re: How do you store your carrots?
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2015, 04:57:51 pm »
Traditionally they were stored in sand.  Problem is you don't know how "old" they are before you get them.

 

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