Would love to see your supply storage set ups! Looking for ideas!

[Echelontheory101]

UPDATE: I'm not looking for suggestions on types of feed bins I definitely explained my question wrong below apparently. I'm looking for organization setups like how do you organize your bins do you use cabinets do you do Cube shelves is everything on racks in a shed like how do you organize all your stuff not just what do you store your feed in but where do you put the pooper scooper where do you keep your Muck Boots where do you keep your cleaning supplies like how do you organize it all.

Thanks all!


I wasn't sure if I should put this in feeding and watering your flock or in the coop run design threads because it's not really coop run design.

I would love to see what you guys do for like how you store/organize your feed bins and supplies and shelving/storage and stuff like that.

I have a one and a half car garage and right now I have 2 of those charcoal briquette large plastic storage bins, they fit a 50 lb bag of feed perfectly they're like that narrow tall secured bin and I LOVE them, but they're kind of just sitting in the middle of my garage right now, and I kind of just have stuff like buckets and cleaners and scoopers and treats and whatnot everywhere and the clutter is driving me nuts, so I wanted to see other people's storage setups for like their feed, treats, supplies, cleaners, chicken coop specific boots and clothes, stuff like that etc.

trying to figure out how I want to go about trying to organize and looking for ideas. Thanks all!

 

[Debbie292d]

Actually, I like yours! We have dog food bins that seal, but they only hold 30#. A 50# bag we mix and split between two of them lasts nearly two weeks. They're opaque though so you can see how much is left. These are on wheels so make it nice when we bring them into our kitchen. We mix three things into our crumbles and hubby prefers to do it in the kitchen.

Ours are old so couldn't find them. I looked on Amazon and found these that look like them, but they are 50#!

 

[Echelontheory101]

Actually, I like yours! We have dog food bins that seal, but they only hold 30#. A 50# bag we mix and split between two of them lasts nearly two weeks. They're opaque though so you can see how much is left. These are on wheels so make it nice when we bring them into our kitchen. We mix three things into our crumbles and hubby prefers to do it in the kitchen.

Ours are old so couldn't find them. I looked on Amazon and found these that look like them, but they are 50#!

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Yeah I was looking at those as well! I do really like the bins (they are wheels as well jsut hard to see in the product photo i recommend them!) that I bought but right now my main problem is those bins are just kind of sitting in the middle of my garage and then there's bottles of cleaner spray and the pooper scooper and a bag of treats and the gloves that I wear and my Muck Boots and stuff it's all just kind of all over the place and I have no idea how to go about like do I build shelving do I just leave it all where it is I'm just having a hard time figuring out organization more so than like the actual bin that I'm storing the feed in haha

 

[Debbie292d]

Yeah I was looking at those as well! I do really like the bins that I bought but right now my main problem is those bins are just kind of sitting in the middle of my garage and then there's bottles of cleaner spray and the pooper scooper and a bag of treats and the gloves that I wear and my Muck Boots and stuff it's all just kind of all over the place and I have no idea how to go about like do I build shelving do I just leave it all where it is I'm just having a hard time figuring out organization more so than like the actual bin that I'm storing the feed in haha

Ahh, okay. Well, these are kept in the garden shed. Hubby built shelves so these could go underneath of the bottom shelf.

 

[Echelontheory101]

Ahh, okay. Well, these are kept in the garden shed. Hubby built shelves so these could go underneath of the bottom shelf.

Do you like that setup? Or do you find it annoying that you have to pull the feed bins out from under the Shelf to open them? I do have one horizontal shelf that goes across the entire length of the garage and I could tuck these bins underneath it and then get like storage cubes to put on top of it for all the random stuff but I'm wondering if having the feed bins under the Shelf will end up being annoying over time is that what you do?

 

[Debbie292d]

Do you like that setup? Or do you find it annoying that you have to pull the feed bins out from under the Shelf to open them? I do have one horizontal shelf that goes across the entire length of the garage and I could tuck these bins underneath it and then get like storage cubes to put on top of it but I'm wondering if having the feed bins under the Shelf will end up being annoying over time is that what you do?

They're on wheels so no, it's no annoyance at all. We only pull them out about once a week. The feeders are huge 5-gallon PVC port feeders.

Perhaps you could put yours on a -- I forget what it's called, like a skateboard...a board with wheels.

 

[Echelontheory101]

They're on wheels so no, it's no annoyance at all. We only pull them out about once a week. The feeders are huge 5-gallon PVC port feeders.

Perhaps you could put yours on a -- I forget what it's called, like a skateboard...a board with wheels.

These charcoal bins actually have wheels on them as well it's just hard to see in the product photo. They were pretty expensive but so worth the money! And i have some of the smaller ones for their scratch and treats.

And that totally makes sense I would not be pulling them out every single day like you said, very true! so tucking under makes sense! and then maybe I build some sort of cube shelving or drawer shelving or something on top of the shelf cause right now my garage is an absolute disaster LOL

 

[Folly's place]

Sooner or later rodents will chew into those plastic bins!
Two recommendations here, both learned the hard way by me: Use metal garbage cans, on bricks or some surface that isn't damp, and keep the feed in it's bag from the feed store, so you have the lot numbers on it.
Of course you buy feed that's fresh as possible, by each bag's mill date, and store it all on a dry surface, so that garbage can doesn't rot on the bottom.
If there's ever an issues with the feed, having it in it's original bag makes it easier to talk to the manufacturer.
Mary

 

[Folly's place]

We also have a feed bag cut to fit over each lid, because the cans are out in the coop, which is large enough to hold them, and the chickens do land on those lids often.
Mary

 

[Three Stents]

still in setting up the camp mode for 3-4 hens. So whatever bags of feed I get will go into a 5 gallon bucket, if it's not big enough, then I put the feed in another one, stored in an old aviary covered with hardware cloth. I might keep the buckets in the run and if I do, there will be on the bucket lids. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B018URW9SK?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1