Where to buy fish meal?

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Try calling around to your local feed mills and feed stores. Just tell them you're looking for a bag of fish meal for your chickens. If they say they don't carry it, ask them if they could order it for you. A lot of places can get things from their usual supplier of feed or feed ingredients.

You can look in your local phone books or google for your area, to find them. Also, you could ask in the thread for your state in the "Where am I? Where are you?" section of this forum. As a last resort, you could order online, if you only need an occasional bag. If you need a larger amount on a regular basis, then I'd try to work with a local feed mill or feed store to start getting it in for you.
 
I am having the same problem. There are no feed mills within 200 miles of me, since I live in the desert. Commercial feed is horribly expensive and I can mix my own for a reasonable price. I'd like to add fish meal to increase the protein, but no one carries it and no one does special orders. I can mail order it, but I don't need 50 pounds, and I certainly couldn't spend $100 in cost and shipping for it! I'm looking into growing some duck weed in a small plastic pond instead, it grows like crazy in my fish tank and I found online that it is super high in protein (more than soy!) and some places are using it for chicken feed. You can buy portions of that from some online aquarium plant dealers, but it is surprisingly hard to find too, for how easy growing it is. I guess it's because most aquarists and pond keepers consider it a nuisance plant. Worth a try though if you could get ahold of it and have a place to grow it over the summer.
 
I normally buy mine online. Nothing beats the inventories of online stores.
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Downside is, the shipping is a pain.
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I found that ever elusive ingredient: fish meal. The farmers co-op has it, 50lb bags are $69.99 for the organic stuff, $59.99 for the non-organic or 2.5lb bags for $10. Either I pay $1.20/lb or $4/lb, I'd rather pay $1.20/lb but I would only need somewhere between 6-12 (fluid) ounces a day, depending how much feed I need to provide. This has yet to be determined. I researched how long fish meal can be stored. It would appear that as long as it can be kept dry it will store for "years". I'm going to break up the 50lb bag into smaller zip lock bags and put them in the chest freezer! Also, as it turned out, whole corn is only $7.50 at the co-op; half of what is was at the feed store. Everything else was roughly the same price as the feed store but I figure why not give the co-op my business. As soon as my current supply of pelleted food runs out I'll start mixing my own.
 

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