Posted by fixerupper on March 12, 2014 at 18:48:30 from (100.42.82.35):
In Reply to: chicken feed posted by Nick167 on March 12, 2014 at 16:18:59:
I buy crumbles in 50 pound bags. Current cost for 15 hens that are laying at 85 percent is $1.80 per dozen eggs produced. Maybe cheaper now that I don't have to heat the water or have a heat lamp running in the chicken house. If you want to grind the feed with the hammer mill for the fun of it, go at it. You won't save yourself any money but you'll have the satisfaction of doing it yourself. Better make sure the corn is under 13 percent moisture this time of year or it will want to set up on you, like was mentioned before. I used to hate the hammer mill when I was a kid but now, 55 years later, I'd like to run one just for old time's sake.
When I used to haul bean meal out of Cargill in Sioux City a man in an old pickup would come to where the trucks lined up to load and scoop up for his chickens whatever the truckers emptied out of their hoppers before they loaded with bean meal. The parking lot had little piles of corn, beans, wheat, barley, and whatever other feed ingredients they didn't want in their trucks. He filled garbage cans with the scoopings and drove away with the bumper on the ground. The only expense he had was whatever it took to keep an old beat up F150 running. Jim
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