Food Storage Ideas Needed

[mountainbunny]

Thanks!

 

[Arrakis]

If you have a bakery in the area you can usually get food grade buckets with lids cheap or free. I get mine from Walmart or the grocery store bakery for $1 each.

 

[mountainbunny]

Will these buckets hold 50lb of feed? Just curious how big they are. Thanks for the tip!

 

[Arrakis]

The ones i get, it takes 2 buckets to hold a 50lb bag of feed. They are square, maybe 4 gallons or so. I like the shape, they stack nicely against the wall in my shed.

 

[balloonflower]

I have also gotten used buckets for free from grocery. Mine are 3ish gallon sized, but take a regular 5 gal bucket lid. It takes three to easily fit a 50 lb bag, but they're easier to move around.

 

[mountainbunny]

Thanks for all the suggestions!

 

[bullrunslabs]

I live on the Oregon Coast where EVERYTHING is wet, EVERYTHING molds, and the RATS eat EVERYTHING that isn't in a chew proof container. I use empty chest freezers, which I would assume work the same as an empty refrigerator. We store horse, cat, cow, rabbit, goat, chicken, turkey and quail feed in there. We have added a little shelf in a corner where we also keep little things like the salt and mineral blocks for the rabbits, treats, vitamins, empty egg cartons to fill and such. It works out great, everything is in one spot, dry and clean. We've been doing this for about 20 years.

We tried the empty metal garbage cans, but even those rust out on the bottom on the Oregon Coast unless you build a stand for them... It would be nicer for me to have a few separate garbage cans for the animals on the outskirts of the property, but that will be a "eventually" project.

 

[Aringr]

what about a rubber maid with a lock

 

[Kyanite]

I use metal garbage cans with large bricks on the lids. It's the only thing that raccoons can't chew through or lift off. I can fit two 50lbs bags of feed in a can.

 

[mountainbunny]

Thanks. I'm thinking the metal garbage can solution will work best for me.