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[Mother-Hen-Michele]

Clearly, we need a chicken feed delivery service to help folks out in this situation.

or if a feed company just priced small bags the same price (per volume) as the bigger bags, they would have an advantage. It would be easier to make a few trips from the truck to the shed than to carry the big bag one time. And if you CAN carry it, you would just pick up two bags at a time.

Personally I just want a bag that fills one big plastic bucket. (I end up pouring the first half of the bag in and then shaking/dancing the (half empty) bag into the second bucket. If the bags were the same size I could just dance the bag into the bucket and save the mess of the pour.

It isn't as though the hens would eat LESS of it, and the bag cost is the same. Employees at the feed store would PUSH clients into the smaller bag purchase so they didn't have to do it all day too.

there we are... the lot of us just solved the problem over a hand full of text messages.

so who is going to tell the feed company ?

oh, and what are we going to do to keep our husbands feeling useful and manly ?

 

[Red-Stars-in-RI]

Since everything, from chicken feed to Oreos to paper towels to pasta all cost less in bulk and more in small quantities, I'm not sure chicken feed manufacturers are going to be the ones to buck the norm.

 

[Mother-Hen-Michele]

Since everything, from chicken feed to Oreos to paper towels to pasta all cost less in bulk and more in small quantities, I'm not sure chicken feed manufacturers are going to be the ones to buck the norm.

bulk is to stop you from buying one bag of one and another of something else, but chickens like 'one-feed' and many treats, and they could make the first bag more expensive, but the second one cheaper (to the price of the big bag)

I just want to STOP the madness of lugging the 50lb bag out of the truck bed and up the hill to the house, then up the stairs.

one day last summer, I just brought the bucket out to the truck and after letting the bag 'fall' in a controlled way out of the truck, I scooped the feed into the bucket right there in the driveway. It made it easier to carry a half-bag and a bucket in two trips. I was just not strong enough to manage the bag that day.

 

[Red-Stars-in-RI]

one day last summer, I just brought the bucket out to the truck and after letting the bag 'fall' in a controlled way out of the truck, I scooped the feed into the bucket right there in the driveway. It made it easier to carry a half-bag and a bucket in two trips. I was just not strong enough to manage the bag that day.

I broke my right (dominant) forearm last August during my short lived experiment as an amateur arborist...and I can vouch for the fact that moving 50 lb bags of feed with a busted wing was NOT fun. I think I resorted to drop it from the truck bed into the kids wagon, then pull that back to the shed.

Wasn't pretty. Wasn't graceful. But it kept the flock fed.