Feed math help

[Heartsopenwide]

Considering the state of things and inflation. I am considering buying my feed in bulk now, and not when my bird get here. Have 50 Freedom Ranger Color Yields coming in May. They state they are ready in 8-10 weeks. How many lbs of food will I need? I am going to to some free ranging.

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

In the vast majority of the feed industry Bulk is considered multiple ton orders that are not in bags.

As to the math, those birds will eat 10 to 15 pounds so you are only talking about 500 to 750 pounds of feed.

 

[Brooks_]

In the vast majority of the feed industry Bulk is considered multiple ton orders that are not in bags.

Bulk order from the likes of TS may have been what was meant.

 

[U_Stormcrow]

In the vast majority of the feed industry Bulk is considered multiple ton orders that are not in bags.

As to the math, those birds will eat 10 to 15 pounds so you are only talking about 500 to 750 pounds of feed.

^^^

My back of napkin math matches pretty closely, though I don't have experience with color broilers specifically. Even so, 600# +/- barely qualifies for a "bulk discount" at the feed store in my neck of the woods, and is roughly what I buy in feed each month (on average), between the birds, the goats, and (soon) the rabbits. That "bulk discount", btw, is nice, but doesn't compare to what I could get if I could justify buying multiple tons at a time.

 

[Heartsopenwide]

In the vast majority of the feed industry Bulk is considered multiple ton orders that are not in bags.

As to the math, those birds will eat 10 to 15 pounds so you are only talking about 500 to 750 pounds of feed.

TSC had 5% discount (“bulk price” 20 bags). But I also wanted to buy before prices go up. The organic feed I get my layers at Costco has gone up $5/bag in the last year alone.

 

[Lazy J Farms Feed & Hay]

TSC had 5% discount (“bulk price” 20 bags). But I also wanted to buy before prices go up. The organic feed I get my layers at Costco has gone up $5/bag in the last year alone.

That's way more than you will need for these broilers!

 

[U_Stormcrow]

TSC had 5% discount (“bulk price” 20 bags). But I also wanted to buy before prices go up. The organic feed I get my layers at Costco has gone up $5/bag in the last year alone.

If you want a real discount, find a local co-op or family feed store carrying the local mill brand. I'm paying just under $12/50# for layer right now from the local feed store which is nutritionally equivalent to a TSC $17/50# bag. I pay almost $17 for a bag of 24% protein game bird feed, TSC's equivalent is usually $23 or $24.

and the "thumb rule/oft repeated adage" is that 20# of feed get birds thru their first 20 weeks. Obviously, that can't possibly hold true for every breed, or every feed management style - part of the problem with thumb rules - but it gives you a sort of ballpark figure for the expectation of 1,000# of feed.