Also check to see if they discount for a certain number of bags purchased. In the winter, we buy whatever number of bags it takes to get the discount. I think it is 15 bags for layer feed and 50 cents per bag discount……….not a huge savings, but a savings, nonetheless. Of course, you must have a place to store it. We have a small 8x10 dutch barn/feed shed. We only store feed and poultry supplies in it. It is difficult to buy in volume during the summer…..we have such heat and humidity-both bad for grains.
My biggest reason to buy from our local mill is to support our local farmers and economy. I don’t want any additives from
Laura
Laura Roberts
R Half Pint Farm
From: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com [mailto:CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of tennesseetruly@aol.com
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Anita, sometimes the feed mills will special order feeds. Contact the one by you and see if they will. I have lots of friends who live by mills and they special order their feeds and they love it! They say that the mills will add or subtract anything they want them to.
Good luck!
In a message dated 12/27/2011 1:59:06 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, anita@bingamon.com writes:
There is one feed mill and one Tractor Supply close by, but they all
give Purena type feeds. There is a feed mill in, that is over Bethel
half an hour away from home, that will make its own feed, and I think I
will switch to that for the winter. Bad thing is that it is powdery and
has a little more ground corn that I am comfortable with. But fifty
pounds of it is less than fifty pounds of Purena. I may "dress it up"
with bird seed and Black Oil Sunflower Seed.
I have thought about Sweet Feed, but I worry about it spoiling.
Good to have you back, Cathryn!!!
Anita B.
CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
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