Just since last week the feed here has went up $0.50. When I bought my first bag of feed for my chicks when I got them back in April it was $10.50. Now, today I went to get another bag and it was $13.00 for 50#. I tell ya, I am beginning to wonder if the fresh eggs are worth it. Goat feed 3 weeks ago was $8.00 now it is $11.50 for 50#. Another Scratch Grain went from $9.00 to $11.50 for 50# yet another So what is one to do? Sell out or find other ways to fill up the chickens. I am wanting to do meat birds in the Spring but if the prices of feed keep going up I won't be able to.
You can supplement your leftovers as feed. It really helps. Just keep them away from chicken, of course, onions & garlic, potato & tomato leaves, and rhubarb. Mine eat just about everything I eat. I don't recommend that for meat birds, though. BUT meat birds are never cheap to do. They are just healthier meat.
hmmm thats odd. i went to the feed store over the week end and thay told me that the price of feed had went down i was paying 18.90 for a 100# now it is 17.50 for a 100# that price is what i pay for my chicken and hog feed that is at the mill where thay make it.
I sure wish I could find a local manufacturer that I could buy it from for that price. Hopefully here it will go back down but I see no end in sight yet.
Don't know if this will help, but I get my feed from a farming supply chain store. They have one of those rewards cards you sign up for. Not a credit card, but one of those store cards. I don't buy much from there other than feed and only about 1 bag per month at that. I often get 10-15% off purchase coupons from them and last week I got my 1st quarterly rewards check for $7 something.
My Layena and Start & Grow went up $1 a bag each...now for a bag of each it is a little over $29 with tax.
I hear ya. When I first got Rhett, 3.5 years ago, his feed was $8 per #50. Now it is $10. And the "jump" in price has been over the last year. I dont even want to think about hay and shavings and how much that is costing now. Heck I remember when BS sweet feed was $5 for 50#, hay was $4 a bale(decent sized bales too!) and shavings were $2 for a BIG paper wrapped bag. I was going to get a second horse this fall. But even with me going back to work more hours per week.. there is just no way I can justify that now.