where do you store your feed?

[felidaet]

I don't "store" extra feed. I built large gravity feed feed bins that I installed INSIDE my coops. I only feed treats in the run. The main food supply is in each of the coops to help keep it dry and to keep it away from other animals at night. Each feed bin is large enough to hold about 150lbs of feed. When I buy feed it all goes into the feed bin immediately. I fill the feed bins once every 3 or 4 weeks. It makes feeding VERY easy!

 

[lolita117]

Right now I keep my food in my coop in metal trash cans. I keep my DE, scratch, oyster shell, and grit each in separate small plastic tubs. I've ordered an actual feed bin that will hold up to 400 pounds of feed and whenever I get it, it will also be kept in the coop. I built a room in my coop to store things like that and pine shaving. Its just a wire wall and door separating the coop so the chicken can't get in it. It also doubles as a brooding area to get baby chicks acquainted with the larger hens before they can be together.

 

[EweSheep]

metal cans, sitting outside of the coop, upon concrete patio blocks. never had any issues with moisture at all.

Plastic cans, forget it, the sewer rats loved it, made holes in it.....no thanks!

 

[Joe.G]

Metal 30 Gal trash cans, I lined them with the big heavy contractor garbage bags, I keep them outside at teh moment and I covered them with a tarp. SO far so good.

 

[BantamoftheOpera]

I keep my feed in an old broken refrigerator turned on its side. It keeps the moisture out and the feed safe from critters.

 

[CarolJ]

I have a row of 5 metal cans in my chicken barn - flock feed in one, chicken feed in another, scratch in the 3rd, BOSS and dried mealworms in the 4th, and DE and grit in the 5th one. The cans are in the "people" part of the barn.

 

[Joe.G]

To everyone that stores there feed in metal can's, Do you guys empty the feed bag into the cans or do you keep the feed in the sack and place it all in the can?

 

[CarolJ]

I keep everything in their bags - just makes it easier to handle, in my opinion.

 

[Tivona]

To everyone that stores there feed in metal can's, Do you guys empty the feed bag into the cans or do you keep the feed in the sack and place it all in the can?

Still in the bags. The metal can I use is able to hold 2 50lb sacks of feed side by side. This is great because I use two different types of feed. I use another can for oyster shell and DE also still in their sacks.

 

[Run-A-MuckRanch]

We keep our feed in a few different places... Our barns and areas are animal seperate (each type of livestock have their own areas).... For the goats and sheep we use huge plastic foot locker type of containers... these have a latch for locking the seem to prevent them from opening and free eatting... The Rabbits and Chickens have their own huge 55 gallon garbage cans for feed. The pigs have old freezers that do not work anymore to store their feed... The horse also has a foot locker type of container for her feed...
We have 'general feed' too for all the animals such as treats (sweet feed), alfalfa blocks, beat pulp, DE, oyster shells, etc. etc. that we keep in freezers, foot lockers, garbage cans.. Just depends on the feed.
All the freezers we acquired for free... others had them and were going to take to dump... we didn't need them to 'work' so asked for them... we keep on in front of the gate for the pigs, as otherwise when they get bigger, they will beable to push the door open and will end up running freely in the barn...lol

So far all things have seemed to work and no problems with rodents getting into anything... At times we had to leave in feed bags too as ran outta storage for the feed... still no problems with rodents...
We do have a gravity feed box next to the barn, but we have yet to use it in all the years we have been here... Not sure on the size...but it is big...lol