Perfect Drift
3 posts
Apr 02, 2006
6:25 PM
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My daughter and I have a small number of several breeds, food is expensive.
How do you purchase food to keep 100 birds?
We use about 50 lbs a month
Looking for ideas to keep more birds and reduce the food costs.
thanks
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J_Star
353 posts
Apr 02, 2006
7:14 PM
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what do you pay for the 50lb? Usually wheat is about $4.50 and good pigeon mix with corn is $7.00. I don't think that is expensive.
Jay
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Perfect Drift
4 posts
Apr 02, 2006
8:57 PM
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12 % is $14 and 14% protein is $18
wheat is $ 8.50
curious, why food is so expensive here in the Portland, OR area
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Bluesman
Pigeon Fancier
723 posts
Apr 03, 2006
2:49 AM
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PD. Prices run about the same as yours in my part of Pa. David
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Velo99
327 posts
Apr 03, 2006
5:18 AM
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Hit your local Walmart and check out a big bag of wild bird seed. 50 is about 10 bux. No corn in it. Go to the snack section and buy some bags of great value popcorn and mix as you like.
yits
v99
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ranger632
15 posts
Apr 03, 2006
6:45 AM
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J_Star------where do you buy pigeon mix for $7.00? Out here (Calif)it goes from 14.00 to over 20 bucks for 50 lbs.
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J_Star
358 posts
Apr 03, 2006
7:02 AM
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I buy it from a local feed/pet supply store. Some places sell the wheat for $9.00 while the cheapest I found is $4.50. Same for the pigeon mix, the Nutrina brand I used to get from the Tracktor Supply chains is for around $20.00. But I found mix as good, where they mix it for you for the $7.00. I add saflower to the mix myself. By the way, the 50lb Saflower is for $23.00. The Milo is for $10.00. I live in NE Ohio. BTW, the wheat is Ohio grown yellow wheat and it is not the Canadian hard wheat.
Jay
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siddiqir
184 posts
Apr 05, 2006
12:35 PM
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Prices vary from state to state. Here in NJ, 50 lbs bag of wheat cost 10 dollars (good quality wheat). Milo cost the same. Peas are bit expensive. 50 lbs bag of peas would cost 15 dollars. 50 lbs of pellets cost roughly $13.50. I used few different brands of pellets and they all cost the same.
I would also like to hear if any one has good suggestion >keep more birds and reduce the food costs< although 50lbs - 10 dollars a month is not bad deal at all.
Wal-Mart/Bjs/Kmart also sell wild birds seeds. They are cheaper. I think 50 lbs bag of wild birds mix cost less then 6 dollars which is also another way of buy the food cheaper. I have not try wild birds mix on rollers but may be I should try and see what they do on wild birds mix.
Thanks, -Rauf
Last Edited by siddiqir on Apr 05, 2006 12:39 PM
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Perfect Drift
5 posts
Apr 05, 2006
4:32 PM
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thank you for the replies,, i guess the prices aren't that different around the country.
I'll check into the wild bird feed...
PD
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upcd
217 posts
Apr 05, 2006
7:14 PM
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The cheapest grain is sratch @ 50 for $6.95. 11% pigeon feed @50 for 11.50, 17% at 15.00 So Cal
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on a roll
13 posts
Apr 05, 2006
8:05 PM
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50# Purina pigeon breeder mix 17%-$14.00 WHEAT 6.50 MILO 5.00 Thats in central tx.
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Velo99
337 posts
Apr 06, 2006
4:46 AM
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upcd
Have you had any canker problems? Reason I ask is there is a correlation between cracked corn and canker. It is assumed that the fungus enters thru the cracks in the corn. Scratch contains cracked corn, thats why I feed the WBS, no corn I add my own.
mtc
v99
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