Anyone buy feed in Bulk?

[wisdom_seeker]

Does anyone buy feed in larger qtys than 50 LB bags?

What is the order min. and what do you pay per 100 lbs. ???

 

[Harp Turkey Ranch]

Well we buy 1-2 tons every month. For 21% is $450 and 27% is $480 & 16% layer is $400. Only thing we can get in 80 lbs is the layer and that is $16.00 per 80lb bag. All the rest is in 50lb sacks.

 

[ghulst]

I am paying now $13.05 for a 75 lb bag of 17% layer.

 

[jaku]

I buy it at the minimum of 500lbs. It's about $8.00/50lb bag that way. It's the only way to go!

 

[Brunty_Farms]

We get ours made for $0.15 / lb and that is put in 50 lb bags as it's easier to take to the tractors this way. We usually get 24% protien.

For our mill it is a 500 lbs minimum.

 

[CARS]

My local feed mill set me up with a 1 ton bulk bin because the delivery guy was sick of delivering bags. Then the owner of the feed mill told me that he wouldn't put more than a month's supply in the bin. Well, funny thing is that I order about 200 pounds a month! Hardly worth the investment they put in a bin.

No relevant info, just thought I would share.

 

[fasbendera]

When we have our meat birds all our chickens are fed a custom mix that our local elevator Mills. If has worked great and is unmedicated. I am sure you can come up with your own mix. If I had a place to store it I wouldn't get it bagged and it could be delivered in bulk by my elevator but I don't have that luxury. Here is the formula we have used for the last 3 years.

250# Oats
300# Corn
150# Prostock

They Charged $25. for grinding and bagging
$126.23 for $700# of feed. This was in Sept. for our second batch of meat birds.

There is also a good book and it had lets call it homemade feed recipes in it. We checked it out when we first started our flock since I hadn't had chickens since I was a kid.

"Living with Chickens" by Jay Rossier.

 

[wisdom_seeker]

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I did not know that you could get a bulk rate with bagged feed!

I'll be visiting my local feed mill on Saturday that I just found out about on Monday. I can't wait to find out how much I will be saving in all of my feed costs!

 

[Teach97]

I buy by the barrel! Each weighs about 350 lbs...I got 1 each of corn, milo, and wheat...cost me about $75...some birds needed more protein so I added some cat food!

 

[Brunty_Farms]

You save a little more if you have it in a bulk form instead of bag form.

For me it's a $0.01 cent difference / lb. It averages out to be about $15.00 more / 100 birds if I use bagged feed.