Feed Storage?

[stilldeb]

We also use Rubbermaid tubs for feed which is especially nice if you are mixing feeds together, more room for mixing...and we use the wheeled Rubbermaid trash can for shavings and wheel it out to the coops. Also use those expandable "kangaroo" garden containers for cleaning out the coops and transporting to the compost pile - very lightweight and easy to handle.

deb g

 

[ranit]

I use the large rubber trash cans. Each one holds 150# of feed. I have them set in different areas (chicken house, brooder house, quail pen, etc.) that way I don't have to walk far when filling feeders.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

We have a large garden tote that we got at Walmart. It has 2 little wheels on one end and a handle on the other. Has a flip down lid and will hold 4 50# bags. It also makes a nice seat. For grit, oyster shell and scratch we have large plastic garbagwe cans with lids. If ya watch at the end of summer some of these things may be cheap. We got the garden tote for $10. It is big enough that it will hold a full bale of alfalfa.

 

[Cindy in PA]

In my main coop I have an old mushroom container that is super thick & hard plastic with a screw on lid. It hold 80-100 lbs., depending on type of feed. I store my scratch & sunflower seed in vittle vaults with air tight gamma lids. Extra seed, feed, or alfalfa is now stored in white 6 gallon buckets free from the bakery that I bought Gamma seal lids for to make them airtight. I like the buckets because they hold about 25 lbs. of feed & they are lighter for me to carry from place to place when I have to refill something. I do have about 12 buckets stacked together in my pole barn. They do stack nicely with the Gamma lids.

 

[pat1297]

Do you folks get the darn little black bugs in your feed? I hate that even tho my feed was in a rubbermaid container I still got bugs.

 

[serenityNH]

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I put a scoop of DE in my feed and it keeps the bugs away.

 

[Cindy in PA]

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If they are weevils they hatched from within the grain. Don't think it would happen with feed though, just with whole grain scratch. I think moths are way worse. The airtight lids keep everything out, but wouldn't change weevils hatched from within.

 

[Schwartzfarmnc]

My favorite storage is large coolers like you would take on a picnic, I use the cube type with wheels and they keep all bugs and moisture out and store about 100lbs in the large ones and 70 or so in the smaller ones.

 

[Chris09]

I use the 31 gallon Metal Garbage Cans and then I have a 2 wood hoppers that hold about 1000 pounds each (those are for the goat and beef cattle feed).

Chris

 

[5chicks4us]

We use a 55 gallon drum. We keep the feed in the bags in the drum though as I don't exactly know what my father-in-law kept in the drum before he gave it to us.