How do you store your poultry feed?

[aoxa]

My problem isnt mice or rats. Its two little monkeys who open the bin and throw it all over the kitchen floor.... they are adorable little troublemakers! Or, they go outside and put the food on the grass. It either grows into weeds (scratch) or it gets to be soggy nasty fly attractant. Eww. A bungie cord has helped.

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Sounds like my 4 year old nephew.. He really likes to feed the chickens.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Shame on you!

Nope, really no shame in it at all. We've had chickens on and off in our utility room for a year now with feed stored in there and at times one of the bathrooms too!

I'm far from a super clean house with chicken poo found here and there once in a while...but aren't you afraid of Grain Mites ruining your woodwork in the house? I saw a picture of it once and from what I understand it's about dern near impossible to get off the wood. IDK.... maybe I'm off on this...

 

[Timbertoes]

I use metal boiler/washtubs w/tight fitting lids from my great grandparents farm. Each of them holds a 50# bag of feed & I get the added benefit of remembering my long gone family members every time I go out to feed.

 

[patvetzal]

I dump my pellets into two topless 5 gal plastic paint pails that then go into a small freezer ( dead) in the coop. I can handle a pail to dump it into the homemade freezer easier than a feed bag.
Birdseed that I have stored in the same pails have had the tops chewed off by red squirrels, ditto the plastic garbage can.

 

[Bogtown Chick]

Metal Garbage cans in the Garage up on wood blocks so the saltwater from the roads dripping off the vehicles doesn't rust the bottoms. Gotta be in the garage because of bears/raccoons, etc. in the spring, summer, fall months. Metal because of the sneaky mice and chippies that sneak in the garage when it is open.

 

[mrsteiner]

We keep the majority of our feed in the 50 lb. bags it comes in, in our walk-out basement. My DH transfers it from the bags into large (plastic) garbage cans as I need it, and it allows me to mix in any other ingredients I choose at that time. We buy a special organic blend of grain, minerals and other "stuff" from a certified organic farm nearby.

 

[AzaleaParkFarm]

Those are awesome, and immediately recycling them is the best for the environment! ) I'm so jealous those are fantastic!!

 

[BantamFan4Life]

I read that if you leave chicken feed in an open bag for long time it gets moldy or rats and mice get into it. So I put my in a large plastic bin and it works great.
The bin I have fits about 50 lbs of crumble but I'm sure you could get another that could fit much more. Hope this helps!!!

 

[farmerfogg]

I keep my layers crumble and cracked corn in seperate galvanized steel trash cans, with tight fitting lids on top. I keep them in my garage. Every morning I let them out of the coops and head to the garage for their food. They all go to the fencing and bawk at me the whole time, while waiting on their food.
:cd

 

[ChickadeeRanch]

Once the food is in the coop you don't have to worry about mice...chickens are quite quick

they are like

it moved! it must want to be eaten