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[Crafty chick]

christybmom~ I had planned on breeding them, so that's a great way to not have to buy seperate feeds

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

I love the Black oil Sunflower bag. It is so colorful and pretty. definately my favorite. !!! Thank You so much for them.

You are welcome and thanks for the feed bags! If you need anything else, just let me know.

I love the sunflower seed bags, too, and struggle with making them a practical size...they are almost too pretty to cut up! I did break down and make some shorter bags with just the sunflower and the cardinal's head and I put shoulder length straps on them. They sold out fast!

As soon as my girl gets better I am back to sewing. I got a call to do a garden fair and need to work on my inventory.

The chicks are doing great and as always they are beautiful! (You do good work!) Thanks for everything. I really appreciate it all! It was nice visiting with you and talking "chicken".

 

[SallyinIndiana]

wow the pretty bags are all from the more costly brands. Makes me almost want to buy the name brand so I can make me some pretty bags.

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

Chicknfarmer---love the sacks!!!they would make awesome libarary bags

They do! We use one for the library and it can hold a lot of books.

The bags are water resistant, easy to clean, great for just about anything!

 

[Chic-n-farmer]

Chick-n-farmer~ those are great, Iike the birdfood idea too!

Thanks!

wow the pretty bags are all from the more costly brands. Makes me almost want to buy the name brand so I can make me some pretty bags.

Ask for bags from people you know. I have had a lot given to me and I repay them with totes I have made. It's win-win.

I used to buy all my feed in paper bags, but when I figured up the pennies I saved against the $$ I could make off of sewing the totes, it works out for me better this way. I don't have access to the better feed prices you have, perhaps.

Watch the dog and cat food bags, too. I pick up cheap (as in I wouldn't feed it to the dogs except for a few pieces as a treat, but the wild guineas like it!) dog food with an adorable picture on the bag for $5 for 16 lbs and resell the totes for $5. All I have invested are tax, a little thread and my time. I never have enough of these bags made, they always sell out.

All this helps pay my feed bill, and we know feed prices aren't getting any lower!

 

[SallyinIndiana]

We had a few of the paper bags from the umbarger feed. I just shredded them and used them as mud cover in the run. no money savings whatsoever. What was I thinking.
Dog food on sale is a great idea. I wonder if cat food comes in a nice bag too. I can't remember from when we had cats.

I just did the math on how much food I'm going to be buying in the next year for chickens. A couple of people were joking on another thread about getting a ton of feed at once a couple of days a go. But for 25 chickens and the 100 roosters that I will process, a ton does not seem excessive now. Maybe this spring when the chickens aren't eating as much it will be funny to think of getting a ton but at winter eating rates a ton is only a storage issue instead of a laughing matter.

I think I will be spending some time talking to people at TSC the next few times I'm there, that is how I have learned a lot about chickens. If I window shop the isles for around 15 minutes, it seems like someone comes in to buy chicken stuff. I'm sure I could convince some of them to give me their bags. Most of the people I know around here don't have chickens so no chicken feed bags. But I do know a few with dogs.

 

[Little Ameraucana Mom]

You are welcome and thanks for the feed bags! If you need anything else, just let me know.

I love the sunflower seed bags, too, and struggle with making them a practical size...they are almost too pretty to cut up! I did break down and make some shorter bags with just the sunflower and the cardinal's head and I put shoulder length straps on them. They sold out fast!

As soon as my girl gets better I am back to sewing. I got a call to do a garden fair and need to work on my inventory.

The chicks are doing great and as always they are beautiful! (You do good work!) Thanks for everything. I really appreciate it all! It was nice visiting with you and talking "chicken".

One day I"m going to have to come visit you, to see all yours!! You'll have to come one time in the summer, the girls can swim and we can sit and visit. !!

 

[danand]

You-all have read my mind! I've been saving bags to make for our garden club plant sale! Great tutorial , I wasn't sure how to do the bottom.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Thinking again of seeding the run with a grass seed mix. We have some other areas needing grass seed or some kind of ground covering. Is there a way to get grass to grow back in the run or is it a hopeless project? Perhaps if I seeded some kind of pasture grass, it could grow enough to survive the chickens.
Purdue recommends planting grass close to March first so I have some time to think about it. Then again I could always plant at the end of fall but I think it will be easier to keep the birds penned up in March than Nov. If we ever finish our portable coup I could put the birds in there while the grass in the run takes hold.

 

[Crafty chick]

Ha, I u-tubed "chicken hypnotized". I will teach my 6 yr old this afternoon how to do it.