Official BYC Poll: Where Do You Buy Your Feed From & Why?

[Asm610]

Welcome to BYC!!
You must absolutely love your chickens to get so much for them!

I do! They provide me lots of entertainment and peace. I hsve PTSD also and they seem to help with that as well. I spend most of my days outside with them and I love it.

 

[CreveChris]

At first, we ordered online, but during the pandemic, prices are cheaper at TSC. I'm working with my local feed store for feed going forward, now that my chicks are hatched and a) I'll need twice the feed and b) I can go back to 16% (feed store didn't have 18% feed used while collecting hatching eggs).

 

[JadeFarms]

I do! They provide me lots of entertainment and peace. I hsve PTSD also and they seem to help with that as well. I spend most of my days outside with them and I love it.

Chickens are amazing companions, I wouldn’t trade mine for the world!

 

[AZWhiteKnight]

I bought at the local feed store for a long time, but TSC has better prices, and the hours are also more convenient. I get my dog food there too, which the feed store did not carry.

 

[RebeccaRN]

We have a small family run feed store in my small town. They get all their grains and feed locally

 

[RebeccaRN]

What is HSUS?

 

[kinkajou34]

We get our feed from southern states and almost every spring we go to get the new chicks but we won't be going this year for chicks since we already got some from there in early November.

 

[Tashua]

I sometimes get the feed at Rural King - they also have the best price in black oil sunflower for wild birds . They are a 1 1/2 hour trip so I need to have a few things planned . TSC 25 minute ride ,just like grocery store so I hit both together Cats get human canned tuna ,chicken,salmon etc ....... “cat food “ is so bad for them . I save $ in the long run with no vet billls for urinary issues diabetic problems etc ......

 

[Tashua]

We’d all be homeless here at their prices of feed

There are two local “feed & seed” type stores in the next town .......maybe I will check them out after reading some of these comments

 

[jakedaniel]

I just checked prices at Tractor Supply. The cheapest 50lb bag of layer feed is $15 bucks. That’s $4 higher than the $11 a bag for MG layer crumble I get at the nearest feed store to my house and that price has remained consistent over the past 2 years. I don’t get all these folks in previous comments saying that TSC has better prices or is somehow a better value. I’m not talking about “support your local business” or anything like that. Straight-up, the local feed store beats TSC on prices for everything and by a wide margin, at least in my part of Texas.