Feed sack woes

Well yes, Rosewood, it should go as you say, and that's what I try and try and try to do. Until my fingers are forzen, tears fill my eyes and I slice myself with the utility knife because it's dark, I'm weeping and can't see what I'm doing. Tears of frustration, you understand. While the chickens stand shoulder to shoulder, their starving little faces pressed oto the wire as they telepathically reach out to me "please don't make us be hungry any longer, we are weak and fading..." It's a crock of course, they are fat and picky about what they eat and what they reject, but still, it adds pressure as I fumble with that miserable bag.

BriarwoodPoultry wrote:

crazybarnlady wrote:

Hillbilly wrote: The bags from Otter Coop say, "You otter open here"

Top Shelf Feeds on the Island also have the handy arrow.

I get otter coop feeds too, and after many years,the slogan still makes me giggle every time I read it!

I don't like the old new bags at top shelf, no arrow, different (ugly) colors (throws off the fung shuei of the coop) and I'm a putz and seem to rip a bag every load. Gr.

Lately, I seem to end up with a different type of bag every time I go there, not sure what's going on there.
Maybe I should ask Joanne what gives.

Uno, You may have gotten your wish as Sure Crop has a new bag with a tab that you pull. So far I've only gotten chick grower in the new bag.

What?! A NEW bag?! I'm going to have to check this out. Read these posts and sure wish SureCrop would make a bag like the Alpo dog food. It's crap dog food, but bless the person who designed the bag!

I still fumble and putz with the utility knife and if you can cut that one, magic thread, it all unravels nicely. But if not, heaven help you. This is less critical now that it's warm outside and not dark by 3 o'clock. Although swarms of mosquitoes biting your knuckles makes picking stitches an unpleasant chore.

Rosewood, I will be on the look out for this new bag, how I hope it is a company wide change!

Yep, it's true. Surecrop has gone to paper bags, just like the other places and it has the pull tab, just like other places, so easy to open now. Really quite glad that the mesh plasticy type bag seems to have gone by the wayside. I like the old bags for some things, very strong, but I also like the easy to open pull tab bags, and they are more environmentally friendly I guess being made of paper. It is cool. Have an awesome day, CynthiaM.

I Wannt these new bags!!! But, Co-op and Surgain (owened by Maple Leaf) are my only two choices.

In less i drive futher out into the sticks to a drug store to pick up purrena. Yes that's right a drug store around me sells live stock feed....

I was not aware that the new easy-to-open bags were paper. For me, this is not great news. I re-use my feed sacks to bag aged manure and tote it out to my mom's place where she sells it to her retired neighbours who have teeny tiny gardens and only want a few bags of manure for their roses. This was a way for the Horsey Teen to earn pin money back when she was an unemployed youngster. Paper sacks do not stand up well to soggy manure.

Oh well...maybe it's time to get rid of horses. Then it won't matter what kind of bags my chicken feed comes in.

Uno, not to worry as the bags have a plastized interior. I'm hoping they can be recycled at our unfriendly transfer station.

Ya, after I read Rosewood's comment, I went and looked at one of the bags. It does have a slippery plastic liner inside. Not sure why they switched, but they did. I like them better cause I can open them much more easily, smiling. Have a wonderful day, CynthiaM.

Just got my rabbit feed in a new bag so I had to revive this old thread of Uno's!  

Uno, you will love this! Tak a look at this new bag!

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No. NO! That is NOT a zipper!

Aww...mannn. Not fair!

I want THOSE bags!

And to rub it in further, the bags are tough, water proof and totally reusable!

Hillbilly wrote: The bags from Otter Coop say, "You otter open here"

Top Shelf Feeds on the Island also have the handy arrow.

Yup. Love those Otter Co op bags even if they do open at the bottom, but I agree, the mesh ones are hell to open. And I like them opened cleanly because then all the contents pours out and doesn't get caught in the corners and I can re use the bags for fleeces - one mesh bag holds one Shetland fleece perfectly and I can write the sheep's name and date of shearing on the bag so when a spinner says "I loved that fleece" I'll know what they mean (or alternatively "that fleece was crap")