How much do you pay for feed??

[cluckmecoop7]

I recently switched to Purina Flock Raiser from TSC because I have a rooster right now. It is $26 for a 50 pound bag. Ugh!!!
I remember when feed was cheap.

 

[susan tutor-smith]

I have been paying $26.99 for flock raiser at TSC and they eat so much feed it gets expensive. Is this alot for feed? How much do you pay?
TIA!

I just came from Tractor supply. 14.79 for 40lb layer pellets

 

[msmidwick]

I'm paying $14.97 here in central Florida at a feed/farm supply store. Rural King is like the Walmart for farm folks!

 

[Lilbitsnpieces]

I have been paying $26.99 for flock raiser at TSC and they eat so much feed it gets expensive. Is this alot for feed? How much do you pay?
TIA!

https://www.semanticscholar.org/pap.../da96d0d3bab02f6ddcde1b54267afe46a3debd91here is one study and a highlighted excerpt. There is another that I referenced but still looking for it .

 

[kittyvamp1884]

Wow... I find myself insanely jealous of all of y'all.

Now I'll preface with... We're really weird about food in general... (tagline: we eat food; not science projects) I'm that crazy, old-fashioned, bread baking, pasta making, veggie growing, crunchy mom they warned you about.

I use the same standards I would buying food for our family when buying food for the chickens. "You are what your food eats" and all... If it isn't non-GMO, no corn, no soy, it doesn't meet muster. But with so many "boxes to check", I can't find all that an all flock. I have to hope that my rooster is more tolerant of the calcium. Time will tell, and I'll switch in a heartbeat if I can find it in an all flock.

We pay $40 for a 40 lb bag of Scratch & Peck layer feed from the local feed store. I'm able to hit that one on the way up to the farm for our groceries every week, and I've looked at every Tractor Supply within a 30 mi radius of my house, and none of them even have something that checks all those boxes.

I supplement with healthy scratch grains, soldier fly larvae, kitchen scraps, meat rabbit cast offs, and regular garden trimmings of anything that gets buggy. The ladies just got the run of the squash bed as I cleaned that up for the season, and they'll get the tomato bed in a few weeks. That makes for some happy chickens. They stalked me anytime I touch my garden apron.

I just can't bring myself to feed them something I don't consider food.

If anyone is curious about this feed, I'll attach pictures, but it sounds like we're paying dern near double the average.

 

[Ricognyze]

That’s great! I think it depends on the birds. Mine will eat anything I put out for them for the most part, but there are exceptions. Strawberries for one thing.

Funny, mine love strawberries!

 

[JerryPerez54]

I have been paying $26.99 for flock raiser at TSC and they eat so much feed it gets expensive. Is this alot for feed? How much do you pay?
TIA!

Try $100+ a month for about a flock of 50, 4 Pekin Ducks, and 5 three month old Heritage Turkeys. Sometimes $130-$140 a month.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Try $100+ a month for about a flock of 50, 4 Pekin Ducks, and 5 three month old Heritage Turkeys. Sometimes $130-$140 a month.

Gosh, I miss those days and that feed bill

 

[rosemarythyme]

If anyone is curious about this feed, I'll attach pictures, but it sounds like we're paying dern near double the average.

"Average" isn't organic feed though.

Your store is marking up the price a bit compared to feed stores in my area (I haven't found a single one that doesn't sell S&P) but if you're not in the Pacific NW, it might be because of shipping costs to your store location.

 

[kittyvamp1884]

"Average" isn't organic feed though.

Your store is marking up the price a bit compared to feed stores in my area (I haven't found a single one that doesn't sell S&P) but if you're not in the Pacific NW, it might be because of shipping costs to your store location.

That's quite possible... We're in PA around 20 miles north and west of Philadelphia...

Total side note, but our rooster man just came over and crowed right in ear as I'm writing this... So Arslan says hi.