Why Tractor Supply Won't Carry Game Bird Starter

[gamebirdboy]

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You're right, I only go there once a month to buy 3 bags of pine shavings because my feed store only sells some expensive bedding.

 

[JJMR794]

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You should at least go in and check the feed, they mark down feeds that are close to their expiration dates to 'move' them quicker. I went to my local TSC one time and found 7-50# bags of purina chick starter marked down to $5 a bag. The expiration date was about 5 months later (they would have expired this month). That feed lasted me a total of 3 weeks (just using for chicks). I always stop in TSC when I'm in the area just to see if there are any good deals on feed

NO THANX... I'M GOOD. I DONT FEED ANY OF THEIR JUNK, ESPECIALLY THEIR OLD JUNK TO ANYTHING I HAVE. I DO STOP IN FROM TIME TO TIME TO GET PARTS (THE CURSE OF HAVING A VERY OLD LAWN TRACTOR AND NO MONEY TO REPLACE IT--- I AM ALWAYS GETTING PARTS TO KEEP THE OLD DINO TRACTOR RUNNING

) I DID NOTICE ONLY 1 DECENT SALE THIS YR... IN APRIL/ MAY THEY HAD CHICKEN SIZE EGG CARTONS CHEAP AND LG TURNERS, BUT I HAVENT EVER SEEN FEED MARKED DOWN OR EVEN BUSTED OPEN BAGS ON CLEARANCE AS YOU WILL SEE FROM TIME TO TIME AT MOST FEED STORES...MAYBE ITS JUST THE 3 LOCATIONS AROUND ME?

 

[bantamboy93]

I love the tractor supply store. But I don't really shop there. My feed store carries everything i need for fair enough prices. Besides, the nearest tractor supply store is 30-40 minutes away. So i just pop in whenever i'm in the area over there to look around. I found a hand spade for 3 or 4 dollars last time i was there with a long handle. will come in handy in the garden.

 

[A.T. Hagan]

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I feed a lot of FRM gamebird starter, but I'm not about to taste it. It stinks enough those rare times I have to carry it in the cab of my truck or worse still in the wife's car trunk! A fresh bag of Flock Raiser on the other hand usually smells pretty good.

 

[joe125]

TSC is the devil spawn of all big box stores and they won't even take the time to give you bad feed advice. At least my mom and pop feed store routinely gives me bad feed advice. Thanks feed store....Your Welcome Joe!

 

[yinepu]

Our local feed store sells chick starter and layer feed.. all of it is seriously lacking in nutrients and extremely high in dust.. so for the most part I am being "forced" to go to TSC for chicken feed (yeah it's pretty bad when you have to consider TSC feed to be the best you can find...)

 

[7L Farm]

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Where are you in Texas?

 

[ssbs]

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Our TSC is really decent, they are always nice and we've even managed to get employee discounts there.. One time we even bought the wrong alfalfa (cubes, not pellets) and they exchanged it, even though we'd already opened the bag.

I buy all my dog food there, it is the cheapest place to get stuff without corn and soy (Diamond naturals), since 3 of my pups can't tolerate junk (one gets inner ear infections, one gets hives and the other has food triggered seizures). I'd much rather feed them their raw food, but this last hunting season didn't bring many scraps to the processing houses.

I also buy my ferret litter at TSC. I use alfalfa pellets, it works a lot better than the wood stove pellets I was buying.. And it keeps their cage smelling sweet (the ferrets don't smell like ferrets by any means, since I feed them meat, but a nice smelling litter box is a plus).

TSC is also great for wild bird seed, a LOT cheaper than other places.

 

[yinepu]

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Where are you in Texas?

in between killeen and lampasas..I've gone as far as both.. all the feed stores sell the same layer feed (though I can get fairly decent game bird feed).. we tried their chick starter a few years ago and ended up with leg problems in the chicks.. once we switched over to Dumor we never had another problem (lack of certain vitamins in the chick starter).. tried it again the following year.. thinking maybe it was just the chicks we had gotten from the hatchery.. these were from a different hatchery and it happened again.. so now we only feed Dumor/Purina to our chickens.
I did try the feedstore layer feed (crumbles and pellets).. most of the bag of crumbles was dust and the birds wouldn't eat much of it unless we added water to make a mash.. with the pellets about 1/4 of the bags were dust.. it's actually more expensive than the dumor.. which is insane for the amount of dust in the bags

 

[For my girl]

My nearest TSC has been staffed and managed poorly for several years. We drive an extra 10 miles to be able to buy Manna Pro Gro rabbit food - because the local one doesn't carry it - and when I order it online to be delivered to the store - they send it back. They say the Manna Pro Sho is better because it's a dollar cheaper - but our rabbits dump it out instead of eating it. None of our TSC's carry the 30% Game Bird feed - and like the Manna Pro Gro they claim that what they do sell is a much better deal... I do like their compressed bales of alfalfa and bags of pine shavings - but for most stuff they carry what is cheapest in price - even if it isn't really a better deal...