California - Northern

[Hangtown Farms]

Wow! That would kill me, I go through at least 50# of feed per day (a combo of All Flock, Starter & Turkey/Gamebird).

Deb

Wow 50 pounds a day

 

[zooweemama]

Wow! That would kill me, I go through at least 50# of feed per day (a combo of All Flock, Starter & Turkey/Gamebird).

Deb

Excuse me. I just died. Then came back to life. Only to die again. Holy shmoly! I buy a bag of food for the waterfowl and a bag for the chickens every 2 weeks. I do not know what that equates to- no one is ever made to go hungry but foraging helps I am sure. I cannot even imagine that food bill! $17 a day is more than I spend on a day of all 6 of us eating all day long . hehe!

 

[juststruttin]

I was going through about 20 bags every two weeks. I was selling eating eggs so the sales from the eggs covered the feed ($26 per 50#), but just barely. I think selling eating eggs is a real challenge especially when the food jumped from $16 to $26 a bag in a little over a year. Urg..

I finally decided it was not worth all the work to sell eating eggs, so I disburse layer flock (180 birds). I gave most of them to a 15 year old boy who is starting off in the biz. His dad built him a couple mobile coops and now the birds follow their cattle. They have a great life, and I understand his feed bill is reasonable since they get so much out of the pasture.

I am now down to 120 birds in 13 coops and am still trying to figure out a way for them to get their daily greens.
I am amazed at how much space chickens need to forage.

 

[debs_flock]

Yeah, the feed store bill far outweighs the food bill for the two of us.

On top of the chickens, there is hay for the sheep/alpacas, dog food for the 3 border collies/1 great dane (only eat Taste of the Wild) and about once a month I buy $80 worth of crickets for the frogs, the rest of them eat homemade cultures fruit flies. The feed store bill runs $750+ per month.

Wow, we have gotten carried away.

Deb

 

[Hangtown Farms]

Yikes...

 

[Happy Chooks]

Try to wrap my head around this... Is 40 -50 pound bags in a ton? I use so much feed. It's killing me..

Yep, 2000 pounds in a ton, so that would be 40 50lb bags.

Quote: Me too. Geez, makes me glad I only have 2 coops and about 40 chickens right now.

 

[Miss Molly]

My Feed Bill is out of control as well. If anyone finds out a way to buy bulk feed at a discount, I'm in...I have a few hundred birds easy. Not really sure how many...they just keep popping out of the incubator...I want to feed them quality feed at a Reasonable price. Is that possible.:/

 

[PGRanch]

Oh those are really pretty! Are they small chickens?

They are about 7 weeks old. I'm trading them for Cuckoo Maran pullets today

 

[ronott1]

Quote: Wow! That is a lot of feed. Do you buy by the ton in bulk some where?

The main feed I use is King Feed Natural Non soy, Non corn. It costs me $22.50 for 50#s. If I could get the Cascade feed at a similar price I would be very happy.

 

[MonsterClucker]

Hey Ron I really like the way that feed looks! I know the chooks would love it.

It seems like a lot of us are not getting the quality layer feed we would like our chickens to have.
We really should organize a drop off from cascade in the upcoming months before spring arrives!

I guess the main issue is the "major" bill to actually get the drop off. Realistically its hard for a lot of us to just shovel out a huge amount of money on bulk feed at one time so either we have to take up a collection or one/few people have to buy it and other people would then buy it from them.
Just thinking out loud.....



I only have about 50 chickens (give or take) meaties included. So I am only buying food about once a month. Sometimes longer.
I try to "stretch" my feed as much as possible, so I'm fermenting feed too. That swells a lot of up with water so I'm feeding them less.

But I WILL buy more of this Cascade feed to store to also help out getting this stuff down here for us.