Purina's New Packaging?

[halfwaynowhere]

looked up prices for tote bags on etsy- yikes!
http://www.etsy.com/search_results.php?search_query=chicken+feed+tote+bag&search_type=handmade

i'd rather make my own! Too bad our feed comes in paper bags (not purina).

 

[zazouse]

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Sweet

 

[goldenluver]

here is a link to one with instructions on byc
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=374147

 

[PineappleMama]

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I want one! Our Purina is still in the old bags though

I've got one of those PINK ones in the garage... hehehe... certainly bring attention to the fact that you can have chickens in our city when I was out and about huh?

Just how precisely didja make that Silkie?? I am NOT a seamstress but I do have Mom's machine at the moment... gathering dust...

 

[goldenluver]

even better link
http://dillydollop.blogspot.com/2010/08/chicken-feed-grocery-bag.html

 

[A.T. Hagan]

We've made about half a dozen feed sack tote bags so far. They're not difficult to make but the wife is having a hard time to get them to run through the sewing machine properly so is getting frustrated by the project. I don't know enough about sewing machines to advise her.

We make the entire tote bag from the feed sack but for the thread she sews it with. The ones she's made from the whole corn and whole oats sacks look nice too.

 

[PineappleMama]

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Awesome, precisely what I needed! Thankee Golden.

 

[Royd]

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I wish that I had enough so that I could sew them together for a tarp.

They will not make a good tarp once the ink that colors the bag fades ,the bag starts to break and unravel and the bags fall apart which is not good for the birds at all cause some of them try and sometimes do eat the plastic.

I left one outside just to see how long it would take and in 2 weeks the colored ink was cracking.

They would be good for a moisture barrier , that what i am saving mine for when we enclose our old horse barn

And then, you can shingle the sides and roof in old coffee cans.

 

[zazouse]

Do they still make coffee in a can?
Mabe i can use my hubbies pepsi cans, oh wait those are for solar pannels