How do YOU store your chicken feed???

[jerrys59]

I Use 5gal Buckets With Lids, And Old 10 Gal Water Cooler For Mine.

 

[quiltnchik]

All my feed stays in the original bags inside our utility room in the house. Once the weather gets warmer, DH is talking about building a wooden bin with a lid (like the kind you see trashcans in at campgrounds) to put a couple steel trashcans in to hold the food and keep it outside. We could then close the lid and lock it down to keep varmints out.

 

[Bedste]

I pour mine into large plastic totes with lids.......... I have 4 different color totes..... for chick grow..... scratch.... laying pellets and DOG FOOD for the German.... LOL

 

[Laurieks]

We have several different containers:
~15 gallon heavy (very heavy) crock from someone moving 'into town' after her DH passed. I would scour barn sales for more of those if I had time. It has a steel lid and stays cool year round. Holds nearly an 80# sack of layer pellets.
And a heavy 15 gallon steel drum, with a good lid, from someone getting out of rabbits. Those cans may be had from the back of bakeries etc. More and more of their stuff comes in cardboard or plastic these days, but keep looking

I use a metal trash can for rolled barley for goats, with a folded paper grain sack in the bottom as a little insulation, & a heavy plastic liner from USPlastics.com. When the liner gets dirty it becomes a tarp or recycle.
Chick starter is in a 5 gallon plastic bucket with a good lid. USPlastics sells airtight & other fancy lids for these, and has email specials, & free shippping a few times a year.
I pour the feed into all of these, and use it fast enough to keep it from getting bad at the bottom.
The cats keep them all protected.
The only food we keep in the bags is cat & dog, and that's because both bags go in the same can, side by side.

ETA: the crock & drum aren't 35... changed it to 15gal. Sorry.

 

[Dora'smom]

We use large plastic garbage cans with locking lids, and place the feed in there, in the original bag. I use one quart yogurt containers to scoop with, and have the cans, bag of DE, grit, etc. stored on a raised wood floor in the tool part of the shed/coop, which is locked.

 

[quietheart]

I use rubbermaid bins, for feed, brooders, sick chickens, too bad I don't own stock in them

 

[erthymom2]

i use an old chest freezer to store feed. it's large enough for me to store several bags of feed (i get 100 pound bags mixed from our local feed mill) along with space for me to put in some 5 gallon buckets of special treats i add to spice up their diet. it is pest and animal proof- and i've never had a problem with moisture or bugs.

 

[Bookworm chick]

I leave mine in the original bag, stored in an extra room in the house. I fill up a small coffee can and just take that out to the coop when needed. I don't fill the feeder because I just have 10 bantams and it's no trouble taking the feed out as needed.

 

[aussieheelr]

Neighbor gave us one of their extra 35 gal feed barrels. it has a water tight lid with a spring ring (like on a spring form pan) that tightens and clips closed to keep anything out.
We buy in bulk and this holds just over 350lbs of layer mash, We only have to go to the feed store once every 2-3 months for our 19 chickens

 

[jennh]

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That makes a lot of sense

I will be doing that from now on. I was dumping mine in a rubbermaid trashcan w/lid, in the shed, but I was always getting "fines" . I found changing my supplier of feed helped cut down on the "fines" somewhat.

Jen