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Bruce said:
Interesting you can have those bags of seeds. Maybe the cats keep the mice and rats away.


No surprise given the ridiculous shifts they have you work!


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Do you know Blooie over on BYC? Her grand daughter also has spina bifida. Been following her progress for several years. Always great to see/hear about progress!!
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Those are bags of the custom feed that we have mixed for us. They don’t last 3 weeks. We don’t see much evidence of rodents except in fall. They don’t last long. I don’t think the 9 resident cats and 1 transient cat have anything to do with this...(DH keeps seeing a dilute calico but it’s never around when I’m out there.)

I’m hoping to slow down after we catch up on medical bills and pay off student loans.

I’m on BYC but I can’t recall the last time I actually visited over there.
 
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Wehner Homestead said:
Those are bags of the custom feed that we have mixed for us. They don’t last 3 weeks.
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The last two times I got feed I didn't have an empty can for right off, I found holes in the bags (the plasticy ones) when I went to fill a now empty can. So now when I buy two bags but only have one empty can, I leave the 2nd bag in the car.
 
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Where we buy our feed we have to get a minimum of 1000 lbs at a time to get our custom blend so we use several 55 gallon drums plus a 1/2 dozen galvanized trash cans. We don't have any cats and woods all around our work buildings so rodents are around but so far no problem inside the buildings.
 
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Bruce said:
The last two times I got feed I didn't have an empty can for right off, I found holes in the bags (the plasticy ones) when I went to fill a now empty can. So now when I buy two bags but only have one empty can, I leave the 2nd bag in the car.
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Metal trash cans will hold 3 fifty pound bags of feed.
 
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I prefer the 45-50 gal hinged lid truck boxes for feed storage. (I hate bending down into a 55 gal drum to get a 5 gal bucket of feed out of it once about 1/2 or more of the volume is gone)
They aren't cheap, but will last for years and years and will hold three 50lb sacks of pelleted or textured feed and any grain I've used.
https://www.walmart.com/nco/2-pack-...MIiri93af23wIVxZJbCh1f3g7VEAQYASABEgIK-_D_BwE

The ones with the snap on lids will work as well and will do a good job of keeping small insects out, but most are pretty flimsy made.
 
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I use big plastic trash cans that you twist the lids on and it kinda locks. Kept my horse out of them most of the time. Only found mice in them once but I think they were already there. Had to throw that out. All feed goes into the cans and not stacked anywhere. Too many nocturnal critters.
 
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