Creative ways to store feed and supplies (that won't break the bank)

[Papakeith]

All of our feed (horses, dogs, goat, llamas, donkey, cats, and yes- Chickens) are all stored in large plastic garbage cans with lids. Never had any problem with rats, mice or any other critters accessing the feed. Not to say we haven't had critters in the barn, we have, they just never did any damage to the bins.

 

[karlamaria]

I store mine in 5 gallon buckets I get frotm local sandwich shops. No mice ever chewed through them and there free. Fill them, stack them and save money! Feed,boss,scratch, etc all in buckets with rubber seal lids.

 

[ChickenAl]

Metal trash cans for us to. In the summer I put them in the basement with a dehumidifier to keep all the feed dry. As it gets cooler they get moved outside. Metal will keep the mice from getting in but the lids have to be really secured to keep the racoon's out if you have them around. Those buggers would get the locking lids open on our garbage cans. We use bungee cords now.

 

[dragonlair]

I use metals trash cans, plastic trash cans, plastic totes, plastic and metal coffee cans, various sizes of plastic lidded containers that the horse and goat supplements come in and plastic buckets with lids. I don't have problems with rodents chewing through the plastic containers but I have had them chew through the plastic lid of the coffee cans.

I store the chicken feed in the metal trash can, the horse and goat feeds in the plastic trash cans, the dog food in the totes. I keep loose minerals and kelp in the 5 gallon buckets. BOSS goes in either a bucket or one of the supplement pails. House and meat scraps and hard boiled eggs go in a metal coffee can and get fed out in the morning. Goat milk saved for the chickens gets stored in a lidded supplement pail. I store the oyster shells, eggs shells and grit in the coffee cans.

I store most of these buckets and cans in my back porch. The chicken crumbles get store next to the milk stand in a tarp garage.

 

[nickie]

Duck food in buckets. De in a bucket. Scratch in bucket. Chicken feed is in a giant plastic storage bin. I keep the food u.Der lock and key in the garage and my laundry room, with all of the wildlife around her a little extra of my time is so worth a whole lot of money.

 

[My11BabyChicks]

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We use the metal cans as well... We store them on the shed with a sledge hammer head weighing one lid down and a heavy ax blade holding the other down... Never an issue!

 

[Cynthia12]

I think you have some wise critters then, because when they approach your cans, see the accessories on top, they leave!

 

[silvercat76]

I use the stack and storage system they sell in pet stores. They are plastic, I used them for dog food but down sized to one dog so inky needed one in the house. I keep my feed in my coop

 

[Jake Levi]

Over a few years I have found that the galvanized large trash cans are the only things that dont let coons and rodents in, other then a large freezer chest, five of these will hold 500lbs of chicken feed which is what I get mixed at a time, so I use six cans to have one I am down to when I get the new feed. It works for me.

Coons chewed the tops right off some big rubbermaid trash containers I had. Squirrels will also.

 

[Beekissed]

Metal trash cans here also....can't really beat them for economy, volume and safety, not to mention keeping feed dry no matter what the weather brings.