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Tailfeathers:
I just paid $19 a bag for #50 Purina Medicated Chick Starter and about $17.50 for Layer Pellets.  I get the Payback pellets because they\'re smaller than Purina and I\'m still boycotting Purina as much as I can for removing their coupons from the PP.

I didn\'t have to buy any Gamebird Startena this month but last month it was almost $21 for #50 bag.  Flock Raiser is $19.50 a bag and, believe it or not, SCRATCH is $16.50 a bag!!!!

I\'m five minutes away from a Co-Op that I joined since it saves me $$ on gas, is close by and convenient, and I get a kickback at the end of every year.

But after reading Mike\'s post, I may just have to do some shopping around myself now.    I don\'t know if I\'m saving anything or not now.

God Bless,

Sharon Yorks:
Pen Pal medicated 18% chick starter/grower is $15.25, and for the older birds, I\'ve been mixing my own feed (16.35%) but it\'s too late and I\'m too tired to do the math right now on the prices of all of the ingredients and batches per bag, but I have recently starting adding a little of the Pen Pal Egg Maker 16% pellet which is $14.25. I just started mixing in the Pen Pal last week, so it\'s still too soon to tell if I like it or not. They do really well on the other mixture, just time consuming having to mix all the time.  

I\'ve often wondered what everyone else is feeding. Thanks for starting this, Mike.

--Sharon

Birdcrazy:
Wow, what a varience in feed prices. I am paying 13.85 for a 18% egg layer at a local coop. That\'s down from 14.50 a month ago. Purina flock raiser is 15.50. These are all 50# bag prices. I hate having to recalculate when you have to start figuring in 40# bags. Sometimes I think my birds eat better than me.

OldChurchEggery:
I buy from Southern States (that\'s the co-op here) and a 50 lb bag of chick starter is $13.99. I bought a bag of game bird feed and that was almost $15. They occasionally will do promotions of different feeds, so a 50lb bag of multi-stock sweet feed was $8.50 last time I went. The cow and the donkey like that as well as anything else and I don\'t have to worry about it containing something formulated for ruminants that would make the donkey sick. Too bad its multi-stock nature doesn\'t extend to meet poultry needs or it\'d be a good, cheap feed for the flock.

Jean:
I buy through a Co-op up here and am still paying through the nose!!!  I generally get a discount because I buy by the ton.

Start N Grow - $14.26
Flock Raiser - $14.47
Layena - $13.25
Layena 20% - $13.84 (only available local)
Gamebird breeder - $14.98

Needless to say at the beginning of the year I had 308 birds.  I am down to 194 right now and still removing birds.  I am going at a slower pace and alot of those birds are started chicks.  I hope to get down to around 120.

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