Rural King plastic feed bags

[bonnie in indiana]

what can I do with them? Now I have 5 [and there will be more] and they are 40and 50 lbs. That is another story---them switching to 40LB bags and not lowering the price, saying they are making life easier for the woman farmer/rancher because there are more women out there now that men. Just like everything else. Price stays the same and the product gets smaller.

The bags-too nice to burn
can you put them in recycle?
thought about using them for Christmas gift wrap
Wrapping boxes to send through the mail
There has to be something

[poorboy]

If you will..:-)


thought about using them for Christmas gift wrap

[watcher]

I used some plastic Dog Chow bags to cover the A frame I build for the dogs.

[Farmerwilly2]

I fill old feed bags with wood scrap through the year. By the time buring season rolls around I've bags full of lumber cut offs, tree branches, stove wood ready for the fireplace. Plastic ones I'd lay down between the garden rows to hold down the weeds

[holleegee]

I tried using them between the rows in the garden last year and it was a mess. By the end of the season they were brittle and now I have little bits of plastic all over my garden...never again.

I use them for trash bags.

[CraftyDiva]

Need a new purse? You could always make one of these..................http://www.re-modern.com/product/GT-MBAG.html You never know this could be the start of a business if they catch on.

[Nancy]

We must get the same kind of chicken feed. I get mine at Bomgaars and it is the Bomgaars feed. When they changed from paper to the plastic bag it went from #50 to #40 without a price change. I was shocked. I burn my bags as I haven't found a good use for them either.

[texican]

Are they the 'woven' plastic kind of bags? They can be used over and over. Might make good housewrap on the inside of drafty outbuildings. I wouldn't throw em away... good reusable bags always have a use.

[Jaclynne]

We just cut some open and tacked them around the rabbit hutches to keep out winter rain and wind. Works great.

[Liese]

Just a warning for those using the bags around outside - they break down into strands that can choke - we lost one of our first duck hens that way! I've tried turning the edges & stapling them down but they just break down so easily from the UV & rip. For me it's not worth the heartache, so we use ours for holding and carrying the recyclables back & forth. But I like the messenger bag idea - they might make great grocery carriers too.

[Delrio]

Use them as garbage bags.

I have a steadily growing collection of woven poly bags myself from the oats I buy for the hens and the twenty five pound bags the wheat comes in at the cannery. I feel compelled to bring them home, but I'm danged if I have a real use for very many of them.

The paper feed sacks I do use as I split them open to tile the garden with before covering them with shredded paper in an effort to smother out the pestilential Bermuda grass.

.....Alan.

[watcher]

Originally Posted by Liese

Just a warning for those using the bags around outside - they break down into strands that can choke - we lost one of our first duck hens that way! I've tried turning the edges & stapling them down but they just break down so easily from the UV & rip. For me it's not worth the heartache, so we use ours for holding and carrying the recyclables back & forth. But I like the messenger bag idea - they might make great grocery carriers too.

Must be different types of plastics in different bags. I have had our dogs A frame house covered with Purina Dog Chow bags for a year now and they show no sign of braking down.

[NWoods_Hippie]

Thanks for this thread, the cat food and cat litter I buy has just in the last month or so switched from paper bags to these carpy poly bags and I couldn't think of a thing to do with them other than using them as garbage bags. Thanks for all the ideas! I really like the idea of making a purse or shopping bag out of them!!

Now if I could only figure out HOW to work the 1950's sewing machine my mother gave me!!

Margie

[watcher]

Another possible suggestion, could you cut them into strips and weave them into things? Place mats pops to mind but I'm a simple, non-crafty type. I'd thing with all the different colored bags out there some crafty person could make some neat looking stuff.

[legendaryliving]

Maybe the whole - cut them and crochet them into floor mats? Our grandma did that with plastic grocery bags and those floor mats (throw rugs) last FOREVER!!

[legendaryliving]

http://craftydaisies.com/2007/09/25/...-plastic-bags/
For more ideas
Have fun! I'll bet they'd last forever and ever!

[hengal]

Bonnie -

I've got the same dilemma as you. I've probably got a good 10 -15 empty ones in the barn right now. I didn't like it when they went to plastic from the paper. At least with the paper feed bags I could use them as mulch in the garden. I don't have a clue what to do with all this plastic.

Are you talking about 40lb bags of layer feed? I've not noticed any layer feed that I've bought there shrinking down to 40lbs yet (and I go every two weeks) but I do know that the cracked corn and scratch grains are only 40lbs.

[MELOC]

Originally Posted by holleegee

I tried using them between the rows in the garden last year and it was a mess. By the end of the season they were brittle and now I have little bits of plastic all over my garden...never again.

I use them for trash bags.

i tried using them to make manure tea. it worked great, but i left them out in the sunlight and they decayed.

[Scrounger]

I cut them in half and tack them up on the inside of my buildings at the eaves. Works wonderful. They also make good "curtians" for barn windows to keep air out. You can just roll them up when it gets warm.