Home Forums Miscellaneous Topics Rural Living Opening feed, and seed bags the old way.

Any remember when you had to know which string to pull?

No cheater tag.

Yep, still can do it and sometimes I buy feed without the cheater tag, Save the string too. miles

We feed about 2 tons of bagged feed week to live stock, been pulling the strings for years, but don't save the string or bags. Rio7

COOP here will not take back the feed sacks.
Some of the little independent mils used to buy them, but those mills are long since gone.
I saved the strings until I asked what I would do with 50 miles of string.

Feeding 2 tons a week makes me wonder if some sort of bulk buying/feeding would be easier/cheaper

I would think there would be no doubt. Unless you need to buy the grain bin/silo and feed hopper too. Then it's just a matter of running the cost versus time to see what makes cents (pun intended).

You can sometimes find used grain bins on-line.

Back when, in flood season, I sold burlap bags for a dime a piece.

Yep. 🤠

LouisB, It has proven out bagged feed, is cheaper than bulk and handier to feed out,for the critters we feed it to, we do have 6, 48,000# bulk tanks and 1, 18,000# bulk tank for horse feed, we feed 105,000# of bulk a month, our bulk feed wagons hold 6 1/2 ton and we pull them with a tractor, our bagged feed we feed with a wagon and a 4-wheeler,it's a lot quicker, Rio7

I feed bag feed too.

Much handier that buying and maintaining a hopper and a dedicated feed truck with a feeder on it.

I unload the pallets with my skid steer, and put them in the feed room, and only take what I need for the day.

You can tell if someone's a newbie by watching them open a bag of feed.

Yep. That’s the way we always did it. I’d have friends come over and when they’d go help me feed, they couldn’t open a range cube bag to save their ass. 🤠

RIO&
You are feeding a LOT of critters!

Feed prices are getting insane now too...

50# bag of the cubes I feed is $13 now.

Corn is over $10

Hell, everything has jumped up. Biden era inflation is going surpass the disaster caused by the Carter administration.

My fuel costs have increased over 56% since Trump left office.

Rockinbbar, Insane! You got that right, we sold our bird dogs down from 40 to 18, our horses from 28 to 14, and parked 3 ranch trucks, we don't feed corn but it's in almost every food or gas product we buy, these commie dimmorats and rino's are breaking our backs, Rio7

come on up Barry, I can get for you wholesale.

Locally produced pellets and bagged grains out of Delta is stitched without pull strips on their woven poly bags. Feed produced by Ak Mill in Anchorage, has the pull strips. The chicken flock raiser has gone up $ per bag in the last month. Glad we’re about ready to butcher.

I never was smart enough to figure them out - thank goodness for pocket knives.

I would if diesel hadn't gotten so high!

Holy chit, $13 on 50lbs is $520/ton!


That is about double what we pay for pellets or cubes delivered in bulk. 16% protein with a vitamin package.


And for us bulk is way handier.


But it comes down to whatever works for you.



We buy mineral by the pallet and that works great but we only use a maybe 10 bags a week.




Bought a pallet of net wrap last November for $5k, saved about $500. I don't even want to know what it would cost today...

Ha ha,

Miles, I mentioned saving the feed bag strings in Fireball's twine thread the other day.

Some learned things are hard to unlearn I guess.

I feed about 35 bags a day, about half with the string. Right to left, nothing to it. If I didn't feed four different species and 9 different feed sizes, I'd be all over bulk........