Price of feedin your area

[Flyman39]

I first started raising chickens as a kid in 1977. I remember paying 3.17 for 50# of carnation layer pellets. I raised my feed money from selling night crawlers for .50 cents a dozen. I now pay 7.80 for 50# of crumbles. Boy I wish it was still that cheap. My flock still pays for itself but it is getting real close.

 

[Littlecimarron18]

wow looks like i've got some of the cheapest feed.
Although i have to drive for a while to get it = )
its 15.50 for 100lbs of hen scratch.
and 17.25 for 100lbs of laying pellets.
= )
gotta love it.
(whats better is i get around 7 bucks a doz for my eggs

)

 

[ml]

Just cringing at the price of my layer pellets going to pick up today. Last week they were 12.49 a bag plus tax on top. Chick starter has been around 15.53 this is not gong to be pretty today.

ML

 

[onebuggirl]

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$7 a dozen Wow! I was thinking the increase aroun here for 2.50 a dozen was sad!

 

[Reinbeau]

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$10.25? The chick starter I'm still using is $15.99 here, haven't bought the layer stuff yet, but I'm sure it's as high! I couldn't tell you what eggs in the supermarket are around here, I don't buy them, but I'll bet they're over $2.00 even at Wal-Mart. Local farms sell eggs for between $2.50 and $4.00. Tell your husband to consider himself lucky!!

 

[Frizzledhen]

I pay $15.75 for 50# of Kent Chick Go and $14.50 for Kent Layer. There is still a sign up at the elevator for $1.50 for a doz brown eggs. I don't know how that person can do it. Surley they aren't making any money. I don't know what cracked corn is going for now but last I looked it was over $10 for 50#.
Guess I have resigned to the fact that my chickens are an expensive hobby.

 

[punkin]

Our laying crumbles here at TSC is $13.99 for a 50 lb. bag. The local feed store is about $11.99 a bag. I haven't checked at the local co op yet.

Littlecimm,

$7 a dozen?!!

Are chickens rare in your area?
I'll probably get no more than $2 around here.

 

[AussieSharon]

50 lbs of Oyster Shell $11.00

50 lbs of Purina Start and Grow $12.99

50 lbs of Cracked Corn $9.89

50 lbs of Purina Flock Raiser $14.00

 

[ashyannehand]

#50 is 10.55 at my local co-op.
#50 of cracked corn is 9.50.

Our has went up over the last months too. It was about two dollars less.

I don't know if you allow your girls to free range or not but I have noticed since I have started my feed cost have gone down. I have 11 pullets and they go through a #50 bad of crumbles in about a week and a half now. It was about a week.
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Good luck with your husband.

Mine will spend $20 on a #20 bag of dog food but complains about my chickens costing him. Not to mention the vet bills and heart worm meds. Go figure!

 

[Morgaine]

I don't know if you allow your girls to free range or not but I have noticed since I have started my feed cost have gone down. I have 11 pullets and they go through a #50 bad of crumbles in about a week and a half now. It was about a week

Wow, my 24 hens, two roosters and one duck go through a 50# bag of flock raiser pellets in two weeks. Have you tried switching them over to pellets? There is so much less waste. I also throw a lot leftover to them. They also free range from three in the afternoon to dark.​