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Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them #2951537 01/22/12 09:50 PM
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Does anyone have a clue to what anybody would charge for filling deer feeders and maintaining them?


Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them [Re: HadleyRanch] #2951565 01/22/12 10:00 PM
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Seek Deerfeeder on here and ask him


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This guy charges per bag plus mileage.

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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them [Re: Homer Jay] #2951882 01/23/12 12:14 AM
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Were are you located at? How many feeders, kind(corn or protein or both) and sizes and also how many trips per year?



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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them [Re: stxranchman] #2965306 01/27/12 02:22 PM
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I was just wondering if somebody had like a formula to go off of? or something?


Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them [Re: HadleyRanch] #2965326 01/27/12 02:28 PM
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Your gona have to know how fast they are eating per feeder...then you can callculate how many pounds per week/2weeks your gona need...if you got 1000lb feeders it will save you some trips


Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them [Re: HadleyRanch] #2965490 01/27/12 03:19 PM
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Originally Posted By: HadleyRanch
I was just wondering if somebody had like a formula to go off of? or something?


It sounds stupid, but it works to perfection:
1. Set the length of spin time
2. Put a Plastic Walmart bag to catch the corn
3. Test it
4. Weight it with a small digital scale (about $10 at Walmart)
5. How many times a day do you feed?

I know, I know. It sounds stupid and time consuming and it kind of is, but so is filling feeders and sevicing them when you don't have to. It's also way better than running out of feed.



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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them [Re: Mud Shark] #2965735 01/27/12 04:47 PM
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Is it just spin feeders? or self feed?


Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them [Re: Navasot] #2967673 01/28/12 07:28 AM
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MudShark thanks for the idea/tip .



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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them [Re: notamtchance] #2978478 02/01/12 02:28 PM
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You bet.

Nav, I don't think you can do it with self fed. Just too much inconsistancy on how much they eat with the self/free feed. They may hit it hard for a few days or even a week, and not use it for the same amount of time. With a spin feeder, it throws roughly the same amount each feed time, so give or take a day or two, you can pretty much nail it down.



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Re: Labor Cost for Filling Feeders and Maintaining Them [Re: Mud Shark] #2979999 02/02/12 01:12 AM
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If you don't wish to purchase a trailer w/a pump ect made to fill
them, you can usually get the feed store to fill them from their
trucks for the price of the feed and mileage if it's very far, if
you have enough feeders, and you don't have someone on the lease
that has to count sacks to make sure they are not being cheated..

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