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

[Echelontheory101]

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

Thanks! More looking for organization ideas for general supplies but thats my fault I must not have worded my post well!

 

[Echelontheory101]

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

Thanks! I clearly didn't word my question right since everybody's replying with bin options I'm not actually looking for bin suggestions I'm looking for organization setups like how your cleaning supplies, tools etc. are set up do folks have shelves cabinets like how are things organized is what I'm looking for I love the bins I have. Thank you though!

 

[saysfaa]

I don't have a picture easily available but I moved one of the sets of shelves like in the picture to the coop. All the little things for the chickens fit on it and most of the small garden tools and supplies.

Feed, itself, not so much. I can space the shelves so my five gallon pails fit on it. I do that in my pantry in the house for the pails I don't use often but it works better to stack them in front of the shelves: the open pail of feed on top of the pail of back up feed. Then the open pail is at a very convenient height and doesn't ill need to move until it is empty.

Gallon-size jugs (from green tea we finished) hold oyster shell and grit and fit well on the shelves. They aren't needed often so being behind the feed works.. Scoops for them lay on the shelf above them.

Other things go in boxes on the shelves or lay openly on the shelves depending on their size, how often they are needed, etc.

 

[kattabelly]

I don't There's a scraper tool thing for poo in the shed at the chicken plot and my work gloves live in whatever trousers or jacket I'm wearing that day, or by the front door overnight if they're wet and need to dry out.

 

[RoyalChick]

I have some shelves in a little storage area and have stuff in totes stacked on the shelves. Also cat litter buckets stacked on the floor.

 

[Echelontheory101]

I don't have a picture easily available but I moved one of the sets of shelves like in the picture to the coop. All the little things for the chickens fit on it and most of the small garden tools and supplies.

Feed, itself, not so much. I can space the shelves so my five gallon pails fit on it. I do that in my pantry in the house for the pails I don't use often but it works better to stack them in front of the shelves: the open pail of feed on top of the pail of back up feed. Then the open pail is at a very convenient height and doesn't ill need to move until it is empty.

Gallon-size jugs (from green tea we finished) hold oyster shell and grit and fit well on the shelves. They aren't needed often so being behind the feed works.. Scoops for them lay on the shelf above them.

Other things go in boxes on the shelves or lay openly on the shelves depending on their size, how often they are needed, etc.

Thank you!! I was looking at shelves like this online too and wasn't sure if I like these or going the garage cabinets route or not. Also repurposing the jugs is really smart for things you dont ever need 5 gallons of with the buckets haha! Will definitely be doing that!

 

[Echelontheory101]

I have some shelves in a little storage area and have stuff in totes stacked on the shelves. Also cat litter buckets stacked on the floor.

The cat litter buckets is so smart!!!! I have a ton of those in the basement I can repurpose for sure!

 

[Echelontheory101]

I don't There's a scraper tool thing for poo in the shed at the chicken plot and my work gloves live in whatever trousers or jacket I'm wearing that day, or by the front door overnight if they're wet and need to dry out.

Thanks! That's sorta what I'm doing now, but I'm noticing how much sand and that coffee ground bedding I'm tracking up my driveway and onto my deck stairs through my shoes and probably inside when I go in to take my shoes off just inside the door. Granted that's no different than in the winter when I have all the driveway salt and sand in my shoes and I manage that through the winter with just a towel in a boot tray inside the door so I could continue to do that as well and just put like a toilet brush outside the garage to scrub off my shoes before I go inside!

Your route is definitely a lot closer to what I do when it comes to the clothing! I don't really have like coop specific clothes I do have my Muck Boots that I just use for yard work but I saw a lot of posts about biosecurity and having Coop specific clothes but I don't really have that right now but did order a pair of bib overalls that may be easier to just put on and off over my regular clothes but am not super worried about that

 

[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!

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This is my disaster currently

What I ended up doing is ordering two sets of 2 laundry room cabinets that ill put up on the garage wall and then some clear storage cubes and I think like others in here suggested I will put the bins under the shelf and then all the bits and bobs in the cabinets or on the cubes or in the cubes on top of the Shelf. However I am open to suggestions if seeing my setup or my space inspires you with any ideas of something that would work better. this isn't just chicken stuff this is also a lot of gardening stuff and boxes of fencing and garden beds and stuff for the spring I have to build too that will be gone by the summer as well but the clutter is driving me nuts

 

[kcan2]

There were some good ideas shared on this thread from a while back that may also help inspire you:

Old chicken organization thread link