quote:
Originally posted by Punatic007
If you depend on Mirandas in Shipman Park for animal feed, better hurry up they are running out and no shipments scheduled for 2 to 3 weeks. I barely got what I needed and I thought it was sweet the first place I'm seeing the shelves clearing is for Pet not human food. We do love our animals.
Somebody at Dels told me that the docks at HNL are at capacity (there was apparently some construction or some such to remedy this) and when they are prioritizing which freight to send the containers with livestock feed are prioritized below any of the ones shipping stuff for humans.
We talked to Julie at Miranda's this last weekend and she told us that many of their items got bought out faster than they expected and although they had ordered more it would be 2-3 weeks before it would be available for sale. Had nothing to do with the virus or supply chain just inventory management. Both Dels and Mirandas are frequently out of stuff. There have been times when there was literally no chicken feed or hay available for sale on the island. When the livestock places sell out Walmart sells out next.
O V Feed & Farm Supply in Hilo usually has pretty good stuff in stock but they don't carry hay and they won't order it. I understand that they recently moved (again) so call before going to find out where they are.
Unfortunately, Ace seems to no longer allow one to buy most of the livestock feed online anymore (they had free ship-to-store). I don't know if it's a seasonal thing or what but we used to be able to get some stuff that way.
True Value in Orchidland sells layer feed, alfalfa pellets (sometimes cubes), and sometimes random stuff like swine or rabbit feed. There seems no rhyme or reason to what they have in stock or how much. We've tried to get the manager to order the Standlee grab-and-go hay bales and they did a few times and even though we bought them all they can't seem to place regular orders and we haven't seen any there in over a year. Lately they had huge salt blocks on sale for $7.99- a really good deal. Last we were there they only had one left.
The True Value in Volcano sells alfalfa cubes. J. Hara store sells alfalfa cubes and a few other things.
If anybody gets desperate the livestock place in Waimea is usually a good bet. But the time that everybody else ran out of hay so did they. We were able to get the last one on the island from Pahoa Feed. Anybody know when they might reopen?
ETA: The farm Co-op in Hilo sells very few things like scratch grains etc. Though expect to pay twice as much or more than Walmart.