How do you store your feed/scratch?

[The Moonshiner]

I could use about 4 of them here that is a very good idea. I go through anywhere from 2000-2500 lbs. a month.

Geez us, how many birds do you have? That's a ton of food.

 

[Huntmaster]

Geez us, how many birds do you have? That's a ton of food.

Way too many turkeys, Ducks swimming everywhere and more than enough Quail.

 

[Huntmaster]

Geez us, how many birds do you have? That's a ton of food.

Just trying to catch up with you. Them turkeys love to eat.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Just trying to catch up with you. Them turkeys love to eat.

I've only got 40 give or take.

 

[Huntmaster]

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I've only got 40 give or take.

A lot of giving with that #

 

[lolson69]

That's what I figured most people use. What's the best place to get them?

Feed store hardware store tractor supply etc

 

[kodster]

I bought a 20-gallon metal can with a snug-fitting lid at TSC, and it holds two 50# bags of feed easily. I keep it in the coop itself (it's an 8x12 shed, so plenty of room to stand up in and storage space, too), so I don't have to go far to feed the flock.

 

[Karen Glatz]

20 Gal Galvanized trash cans are just the right size for a 50 lb bag.

Also, I had an old metal step trash can that I wasn't using. I took the plastic bucket out and it is just the right size to hold my large round galvanized feeder. I set it up right next to the 'food court' and it's easy to plop the feeder in at night so I won't have visitors eating the rest of my girls feed all night.

 

[The Welch Chickens]

Hello. I am looking for ideas for storing my feed/scratch. I currently keep all feed/scratch in our feed/tack room which is in our basement through an outside door. We have some mice friends getting into it. What do you use that works? Metal trash cans? Plastic feed containers? Thanks in advance.

Plastic storage bin. Same with all my chicken feed and birdseed. I’ve never had a mouse problem as long as the lid is kept closed

 

[countryladyNH]

We bought several 10 gallon regular METAL garbage cans. Labeled them for chicken feed, duck/goose feed, scratch grain, and baby chick feed...They have tight fitting lids. We fill them up and they are out in the shed. We have NEVER had a rodent or moisture get into them. We keep plastic bucket and scoop there for putting some in to transfer to coops.