Does anyone else hate 50 pound bags of feed?

[BantyChooks]

That's the ticket, Banty! Chicken math does have division and subtraction functions. I'm getting ready to hit the subtraction button, just as I have a gal gearing up to set a batch of eggs!

I've been trying to make myself hit the 'subtract' button for a month now. It's the first time I've put birds onto the butcher list that weren't being terrible little snots, so I keep procrastinating. Plus it's not warm enough to use the hose yet. I tell myself I'll do it when it warms up. I will hit it eventually, though; that feed bill is a powerful motivator.

 

[lazy gardener]

There is a very fine line between warm enough to do the job, and warm enough that you get swarmed by flies and yellow jackets when you do the deed.

 

[Redhead Rae]

I've been trying to make myself hit the 'subtract' button for a month now. It's the first time I've put birds onto the butcher list that weren't being terrible little snots, so I keep procrastinating. Plus it's not warm enough to use the hose yet. I tell myself I'll do it when it warms up. I will hit it eventually, though; that feed bill is a powerful motivator.

Yeah, I have a Delaware rooster who's only crime is that he isn't as pretty as his brother. I keep letting other roosters push him down the cull list since he is a stabilizing influence in my bachelor pad.

 

[JMotuzick]

I’m in my 30’s too, I have no problem moving the bags. Or storing them I guess I need to get more used to taking smaller portions out to the girls.

Chicken math has gotten me too, staring a second coop this week. I was going to mix my 6 week olds in with the hens this week but one with a limp and another addition has got me thinking I should add them to the other group and then move all 6 into the main flock in a few weeks or months....

 

[Kruchti]

Wish I could get 50 lbs of feed delivered to where I live! 25 is it !

 

[AllenK RGV]

For me the weight isn't yet an issue as I am almost 50 but not quite. It is just the fact that my birds refuse to eat anything I offer them but scratch, and then only the milo(this week).

I am starting to truly believe they get all they need from free ranging and pasture feeding grass. After all I am raising a heritage breed that arrived in the US in the 1850's.

 

[AllenK RGV]

How many chickens do you have? A 50 pound bag of feed barely lasts me 5 days lol!

Today I have only 4 hens and 365 days a year their acre is enough food for them apparently. I have 5 more on order but do not expect that to shorten their food.

 

[KentuckyRooster]

I like em. Oddly enough I use the feed for my mice so I fill my indoor bird bin (small bin) then take the rest for mice. I buy separate bags for outdoor birds.

 

[tigger19687]

I don't mind the heavy bag, but I have 4 hens too. I also get the crumble and it just seems to go to dust. mine won't do FF anymore and I like the ease of the direct feed with dry.

Last summer I was worried that mine were not eating enough or the feed was bad. Turns out I think they were just getting enough with free ranging

What breed do you have ?

 

[AllenK RGV]

I don't mind the heavy bag, but I have 4 hens too. I also get the crumble and it just seems to go to dust. mine won't do FF anymore and I like the ease of the direct feed with dry.

Last summer I was worried that mine were not eating enough or the feed was bad. Turns out I think they were just getting enough with free ranging

What breed do you have ?

Black Sumatras they were reportedly poor layers as my wife is veganish, however, they pretty much seem to lay an egg per day.