Feed sack recycling ideas??

[Hope Hughes]

Can you show a picture of this please?

This is our quail pen. I hope to make it a rabbit pen soon. But this type of roof works great. We are in north fl and get rain alot and it works amazing!!

 

[Compost King]

This is our quail pen. I hope to make it a rabbit pen soon. But this type of roof works great. We are in north fl and get rain alot and it works amazing!!
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I do the same thing but I apply the shingles (feed bags) slightly differently... how often do you change out the bags? do you keep these coops in the shade? I had issues with the sun decomposing the bags a bit rapidly but I have an endless supply of bags so no big deal. Currently none of my roofs are feed bag roofs (I tend to replace them with real roofs when I come across materials to make a decent roof), if I build one any time soon I was i'll show how mine are done.

 

[RustyBucketFarmGirl]

I haven’t been doing this long enough to think about the bags, but I think they’d make good grow bags.

I just filled one up today for a potato grow bag. I turned it inside out so that it was solid white. Then i put some holes in it for drainage. I put the potato eyes at the bottom and it’s rolled down until i need to start hilling it. I saw it on a blog i think and she said she put the whole thing a wheel barrow when they are ready to harvest and just cuts the side of the bag so she can easily pick out the potatoes.

So that’s my plan once i get to the harvest part!

 

[Hope Hughes]

I do the same thing but I apply the shingles (feed bags) slightly differently... how often do you change out the bags? do you keep these coops in the shade? I had issues with the sun decomposing the bags a bit rapidly but I have an endless supply of bags so no big deal. Currently none of my roofs are feed bag roofs (I tend to replace them with real roofs when I come across materials to make a decent roof), if I build one any time soon I was i'll show how mine are done.

They are under a tree but way they are facing the sun beats on the front of the coop towards the end of the day. Its been up for like 6 months and still like new. Would love to see new ways of doing it. The roof is temporary i hope, untill we find cheap metal roofing panels. But this works really well so we may keep this

 

[Compost King]

They are under a tree but way they are facing the sun beats on the front of the coop towards the end of the day. Its been up for like 6 months and still like new. Would love to see new ways of doing it. The roof is temporary i hope, untill we find cheap metal roofing panels. But this works really well so we may keep this

I honestly believe your roofing job is better than mine at least as far as neatness goes. I will likely keep doing it my way because it works and I do not fix something that isn't broke. I keep the bags as intact as possible with the open end down incase the first layer leaks the 2nd layer will run out of the open end of the bag. It can look a bit messy my way and your way looks neat and clean.

 

[Compost King]

Yesterday ended up applying 2 examples of how I use empty feed sacks. The first is in the middle of a future Serama Cage. I do not need to finish the Serama Cage anytime soon however this cage is on top of 2 separate coops below (duplex) and each of these coops has its own pen for breeding. Chickens can fly up into the future Serama Cage and cross over to the pen and I needed a Temporary barrier until I turn the attic area of their coop into a high rise apartment for a serama flock.

2nd picture is a gap in Netting that needed to be filled. Rather than cut out a piece of netting from a roll of bird netting I figured I would Temp fill the gap with a feed bag. After I use netting on another project and end up cutting out a piece that happens to be the right size I will replace the bag. I swear I find a different use for these bags about 3 or 4 times a week.

 

[SueT]

During the depression, flour and feed were sold in cloth bags. When the manufacturers realized women were making clothing from the bags, they began to print their bags in a wide variety of patterns and colors....

Wouldn't it be nice if they brought this back?

 

[Cryss]

I'd love to see this returning....if I could sew. I've never been able to properly wrestle with a sewing machine.

 

[Raeja]

I know this suggestion does not relate to using them for your farm or home, however, there many free clothing banks, food pantries, etc. An idea is to donate them to those types of places to help reduce the waste of paper and plastic bags.

 

[BlueBaby]

I'd love to see this returning....if I could sew. I've never been able to properly wrestle with a sewing machine.

Where there is a will, there's a way! Practice makes perfect, right?