However a chicken will typically eat about 400 grams of commercial feed mixed grain or pellets per day so the container will need to hold at least enough for all birds to get their daily requirement.
Feed containers for chickens.
One large barrel can hold 3 4 bags of 50lb chicken feed or 100lbs of pig feed.
Location matters when it comes to storing chicken feed.
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You can use these drums to hold several bags for full storage or keep full bags inside and feed directly from there.
Aim to strike a balance between having enough feed in stock especially during holiday periods and keeping so much that it goes out of date before the chickens can eat it.
Feed health tags.
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For 1 3 chickens the size of the food container or how much feed it holds doesn t have to be huge.
If you need to change your chickens feed do so very gradually to avoid digestive upsets.
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If using plastic select opaque containers as feed will lose vitamins when exposed to sunlight during storage.
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This was the first way i stored my feed and for a while it worked great.