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

[NNYchick]

I started ordering kalmbach from chewy. I was sick of driving all over to find fresh feed. It’s a little more expensive but it’s fresh (oldest bag I’ve gotten is 3 week from manufacture date) I save gas money not driving all over. Each feed store is 30 miles from me. I order it and my dog food when I have 3 days supply left but I always have gotten it on my door step the next day.

 

[Weeg]

I started ordering kalmbach from chewy. I was sick of driving all over to find fresh feed. It’s a little more expensive but it’s fresh (oldest bag I’ve gotten is 3 week from manufacture date) I save gas money not driving all over. Each feed store is 30 miles from me. I order it and my dog food when I have 3 days supply left but I always have gotten it on my door step the next day.

Me too, I also love that its All natural Non-GMO, and I will eventually switch to Organic for my chickens, but sadly theres no duck feed thats Organic.

 

[jonalisa]

I’m talking about poultry feed, dog feed, cat feed, etc! Where do you purchase it from?

Personally, I figured out it was in my pocketbook’s best interest that I buy at our local feed & seed! At TSC, I was paying $17.50 per 40lb bag of feed I can get the same thing (in a bigger bag) for less money at my local feed store. I get 4, 50lb bags of feed right at $48.50 from the feed store. That’s somewhere around 12 bucks per bag. I’ve probably saved hundreds since swapping.

Open discussion... Where do you buy your feed from, and why?

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I buy from TSC because they are closest. The feed stores, like Blue Seal Feeds, Agway, etc are very expensive and sell in larger quantities than I can store.

 

[Weeg]

For dog food, I visit the Asian market, the Co-op and my garden. I feed a raw diet lol!
Cat food I get from the my local CHS, as small feed store.

 

[sdm111]

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I buy all I can from a local feed and lumber hardware store. I try to buy all I can local. I myself work for a small business and see how great it is instead of big box stores that take all the money out of the local economy.

 

[GoatGirl123]

I buy my chicken feed from a local feed store, family run, called Hawthorne, in Escondido. This is where I bought my chickens and they always have super helpful information.

 

[Dottie the Chicken]

We usually get my chicken feed from Farm and Fleet and Theisens.

 

[WestTNriverrat]

If I know my father is going to the mill to get his feeds I’ll have him pick me up a half pallet. If I’m out and need some I’ll run to TSC. I like having the plain brown bags from the mill and the plastic bags from TSC. I raise worms too. I use the paper bags for bedding then use the plastic for castings. So I guess it’s win win. As for quality the local feed smells better to me but the birds eat both just the same.

 

[Annabellarose]

I envy everyone's choices! I live in a very rural area and there is a fair bit of livestock and some farming going on in the area, but farm and feed stores are severely lacking. We do have a TSC, but it has always been a horrible, horrible store (lack of selection and availability, slow to restock [if ever], lack of cleanliness, etc.).

 

[Show Sebright]

I envy everyone's choices! I live in a very rural area and there is a fair bit of livestock and some farming going on in the area, but farm and feed stores are severely lacking. We do have a TSC, but it has always been a horrible, horrible store (lack of selection and availability, slow to restock [if ever], lack of cleanliness, etc.).

Well there is always Amazon. Can’t go wrong there