how do you guys store your cattle/horse feed

rick2 in ohio · Jan 1, 2012

just tryin to get some ideas on how to store feed keep it dry and keep out all the critters.
RICK

Aaron SEIA · Jan 1, 2012

I use a couple of large trash cans. Have seen a lot of people use the old deep freeze.
AaronSEIA

Anonymous-0 · Jan 1, 2012

Old Chest type deep freeze, unplugged of course, wife now likes to call this "re-purposed" but I'm just that cheap to not throw it out when it quit keeping beef/pork frozen

JMOR · Jan 1, 2012

(quoted from post at 12:25:34 01/01/12) just tryin to get some ideas on how to store feed keep it dry and keep out all the critters.
RICK

foot dia 10 foot ~3/16 steel tank with a door cut & hinged in side of it. Never been a mouse in it in 40 years of use.

BCnT · Jan 1, 2012

i bought a 8x40 cargo container to use for a feed house...worked great till roof developed rust holes...now i got feed in 55 gallon barrels with lids...barrels had jalapeno slices in them when new.

Tony in SD · Jan 1, 2012

I use a 500 Bushel grain bin with a funnel bottom. Auger in / auger out. No shoveling required. Never had a rodent problem either.

Dick L · Jan 1, 2012

I only have six miniature horses now and was keeping my feed in a metal trash can. The horses were getting on the fat side and I started mixing four parts of oats to one part sweet feed. Until I figure out how to mix in larger quantity's I have the feed in my house garage and mix a pail full at a time.
I have seen old chest type freezers used in horse boarding barns set on six by six runners. Makes it easier to reach the bottom. Least it looks that way from an old duffers eyes. Seems to be a safe clean way to keep larger amounts of feed as well.

JDseller · Jan 1, 2012

I use old chest type freezers if I need to hold a good bit, 1000-1500 LBS depends on the size of freezer. In places that I don't need as much I have some 55 gallon metal barrels that have a spring loaded clamping ring that holds the lid on. I don't have rodent problems in either one. I have had raccoons open the freezer lid unless I put a hasp on it.

VicS · Jan 1, 2012

I keep mine in a small bulk bin ábout 65 bu with a cone bottom. Cost about $300, 20 yrs ago.

VicS · Jan 1, 2012

I keep mine in a small bulk bin ábout 65 bu with a cone bottom. Cost about $300, 20 yrs ago.

rick2 in ohio · Jan 1, 2012

i like the chest type freezer idea but is there any issues with mold in them.
RICK

old · Jan 1, 2012

I buy my horse/goat feed in bulk as in 1200lbs at a time and store it in an old non-working freezer and have never had any mold problems. Did have a bit of mold once when I was using a fridge that was layed down but what happened was it got some water inside and that is what caused the problem and I have since pretty much stop using it

Dave from MN · Jan 1, 2012

I keep it in a Killbros 350 gravity wagon, with the unload chute narrowed to fill 5 gallon pails with no spillage. Keep a tarp over it. Also have a 5 ton cone bottom feed tank I am converting to a self feeder. Works for me.

Justin SE IOWA · Jan 1, 2012

I use a small chest style deep freeze. It will hold about 600 lbs of feed.

RayP(MI) · Jan 1, 2012

Oats, I also keep in the gravity wagons, ready to feed at the turn of the wheel' Keep a small shallow stocktank under the spout to collect whatever overflows the 5gallon bucket. Cat and traps with peanut butter to keep critters down.

wijim · Jan 1, 2012

I keep mine in the feedroom, A 12by12 room in corner of barn where the water comes up and back down to the waterers. It is heated so water does not freeze.Jim

DoubleR · Jan 1, 2012

I use a couple old livestock water tanks when needed. I put plywood shop built tops on them. The big one will hold about 1500#s and the small one about 700#s. I mainly just dump it out of the grinder into a 3ton and a 1 ton self feeder for my steers. I use to store feed in the grinder mixer until the guys on the implement board made me realize that was a mistake.

thurlow · Jan 1, 2012

Well, we usta keep the cattle feed in a couple of trench silos........one about 130 ft long and the other about half that size; stored the square bales in barn lofts and empty tenant houses. Later went to round bales; kept about half (700-800 5x6) in barns and the rest rowed up outside. Stored the corn in a couple of grains bins...........

PJH · Jan 1, 2012

Well Rick - I bet you're talking about smaller quantities of feed. I never did like fooling with bagged feed, so I built a 2 wheel trailer about 35 years ago that will hold 2600 lbs of ground feed. I was working then and would drop the trailer off at the mill and they would fill it with hog feed for me to pick up on the way home. I had to put a hinged plywood top on it to keep the coons out, and I back it under a lean-to to keep it dry. A roll-up tarp keeps the wind from blowing it on the road and keeps it dry if it comes up a rain on the way home. The tarp won't keep the coons out though.

john in la · Jan 1, 2012

When I use to buy feed I had about 1000 lbs mixed at the feed store and dumped in the back of a 8ft pickup bed. This allowed me to buy at the bulk (not bagged) price.
I stored it in metal 55 gal drums. I had the drums with the removable top and the flip handle locking rings. Got them free from a food bottling place.
I think it took just over 3 drums to hold 1000 lbs.

JayinNY · Jan 1, 2012

I store my feed in steel garbage can with lids, and i use a old chest freezer as talked about last week.

donjr · Jan 1, 2012

With a larger operation, I store about 600 round bales in a drive thru pole building, and a concrete 't' wall bunker with a blacktop floor. All feeding is done with a loader with two quick-tach buckets, one with forks and the other a materials bucket. It generally takes me less than an hour to feed. Silage is dumped into a row of 'j' bunks lining one side of an open sided barn. The barn is 50X100', and 25X100' on the open side is concrete. The other 25X100' is dirt floor with pens and chutes for handling. Manure goes onto a 40X70' pad at the end and into a 70'X70' 'wet stack' pit. Very little physical handling of any material, worst part is taking twines off hay and changing buckets.

farmer boy · Jan 2, 2012

I keep it in a 150+-bu wooden bin that's in the upper floor of the barn and get the feed from the bottom through a chute. It can easily be filled with the mix mill

jose bagge · Jan 2, 2012

I pick it up bagged/ palletized/shrink wrapped 40 bags at a time, keep it on the pallet and in the wrap in the feedroom (move it on the pallet with a pallet jack). I only remove the shrink wrap one "layer" at a time for added critter protection-each "layer" of about 5 bags get's dumped into two plastic 50 gallon trash cans with lids to keep out squirrels/ mice / etc.. two cans is good for about 2 days with our herd. We use SafeChoice- really good feed and really sturdy bags too, re-use the bags for all kinds of stuff

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