Empty feed bags

They are great for sorting and separating items in a big chest freezer. They won't rip like store bags nor crack like bins. Put all frozen apples in one bag, all ground meat in another, etc. Of course you can only use so many for this! I am sure your neighbors would not mind taking a few off your hands. They are also handy for covering small plants in the spring when a frost is possible.

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Our feed supplier went to these plastic-y bags about two years ago, from paper bags. Did it because they said they didn't rip and spill feed as easily. Customers really complained because they couldn't recycle them, and couldn't compost them. The feed supplier used up their 80,000 order and went back to slightly stronger paper bags.

I was glad they went back to paper, but I do admit that now I hoard my plastic-y bags for certain purposes. For example, because they are a bit more waterproof, I'll put my potatos in them rather than in paper in my root cellar. The bags then retain a bit more humidity and the potatoes seem to last quite nicely in them.

I've opened them up and use them for small dropcloths for a painting project.

Because they are really tough, I can store my woven electric fence in them, and they stay nicely rolled and don't snag.

I'll bet they would hold dried beans really well. And coffee beans, if you were so inclined.

But I really like my paper bags. Great fire starters, and I go around and put all my bad seed heads in them, like dock or thistle, lean them in a dry place, and when the fire ban is gone, burn those puppies all up, bag and all. Can't do that with the plastic ones.....

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our feed guy will buy them back from us at .05 each.

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My rabbit hutch is 10' long. I got two 1x4x10s pressure treated and stapled the bags to the boards. One board at the top and one at the bottom to weight the bags down. When it rains or gets cold I put it in front of the cages. I have screws that it rests on.

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Just remembered another use: As liners in the chickens' nesting boxes, under the sawdust. Because they are so tough, when the chickens scratch, they can't claw through them. They last WAY longer than the paper bags. If an egg breaks and dries a bit, I can even hose off the bag and put it back, since they are all custom cut to fit between studs. Try that with a paper bag!

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I use the plastic bags from feed and dog food as trash bags.
Store mixed soil for my square foot garden.
Line my chicken poop tray and the rabbit poop tray.
Put produce from the garden that will be going to other people.
Store smaller amounts of hay.
I get my wood chips in bulk so I put some in the bags.
Line my brooder

I recycle them. The ones I'm thinking of aren't real long lasting and degrade quickly.

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Great ideas,all. Thx

I think when my composted chix manure is ready I'll
fill the bags and store in barn for next year.
I have over a hundred in bundles of 10 now.
These posted ideas are very helpful.

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To make the job quicker

Cut the bottom off a five gallon bucket
Put the bucket in the bag
Fill the bucket
Pull the the bucket out by the handle.

Standard amount in each bag
If you ever want to sell on
cl.

That is the way to fill.

I love all these ideas. We just use ours for target practice.

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We take ours back to the feed mill and have ground feed put in them.

Take feed home, feed heifers. Bags get empty, take back to feed mill, get more feed. We keep reusing them until they are are no longer usable.

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I sew them into shopping bags, I've made aprons out of them which are great at canning time because the help keep the front of your shirt from getting soaked ( which always happens to me when I do tomatoes). I've made a dog leash out of them before. I line the next box with the paper feed sacks, but I guess I could use the plastic ones. I use them to keep the junk mail & ads I've shredded to use as bedding in the coop.

Y'all are talking about different bags than I get. My pig and chicken feed comes in triple layer paper sacks.

In reply to the "dirtbag" house:
They are structurally sound. There is a vid of them crashing a car into one.
They came about from an Arabian or middle eastern guy for quick troop shelters.
They last for a VERY long time if you cover the exposed bags with adobe or something. Look up rammed earth bag or dirt bag houses. Lots of info.

If any of you are giving these bags away send some my way!!

I grow taters in mine. Plant the spud in the bottom and cover, then add dirt every three days until full. Dump it out after the first frost and eat em.

We use them for recycling, they also make great disposable truck floor mats in wet seasons. Seth.

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I use them for kindling and sand bags as well. I also save them for when I buy seed off craigslist. Farmer usually has bins full of rye or oats much cheaper than my supplier.

Use them for bagging apples for hunting, throw weeds in them when gardening, I have few that I filled up with quickcrete and use them for weights on my disc harrow for added weight.

I put recyclables in them but the biggest use I probably have for them is I put beer bottles in them for when I go to the store and get my MI 10 cent refund.

If we open them from the bottom (opposite the 'pull tab to open' end) and keep them fairly clean and neatly folded the mill will give us a quarter per bag returned. That makes it worth being careful!

They are all I use for weights on the slide wires for my beaver traps. They weigh a lot less than carrying around a concrete block for each trap.

I ran out of chicken wire so they are stapled to pallets to make the walls of my chicken pen.

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