Galvanised storage bins

[jimred]

where do you folks get your storage bins from?, i have found a few sites on-line but they look a bit expensive!

[Nicos]

I got mine from a farm supplies shop. A bit cheaper than an equine supplies shop.
I've also got plastic with clips on the lids- but a rat could certainly manage to munch it's way in.
Nope- not particularly cheap though

[bluemoon]

Bramble suggested I bought mine from Ikea. They're £9.99 each and are apparently very good for the job. I haven't bought any yet as the nearest Ikea is a fair distance, but I'm certainly going to in the next few weeks.
They're called Knodd bins and are a basic metal bin with a lid, which would have to be secured with a short length of bungee cord hooked onto each handle and threaded through the lid. My plot does attract rats as lots of people keep chickens on our site, so any bin would have to be rat-proof and looking at the Ikea web-site, these will be fine. I'm sort of hoping they come in different colours so I can put corn in one and feed in the other and be able to tell them apart. (failing that there's always a boring old marker pen, I suppose)

[frias]

I use plastic rubbish bins from Wilkinson. I've not had any rats or mice problems in the 18months I've used them. I paid £6.99 but think they might have gone up to £7.99 now.

[Bramble-Poultry]

I'm sort of hoping they come in different colours so I can put corn in one and feed in the other and be able to tell them apart. (failing that there's always a boring old marker pen, I suppose)

Alas hun its a marker pen or can of spray paint!!!

Yeps we use these as they each hold exactly 1 bag of feed and we have one for each sort of feed I just couldn't fit the big galvanised feed store anywhere so these little ones fit in and around stuff!

[Eco-Chic]

Look out for unwanted bins on Freecycle too.

[Hilary B]

Once upon a time there was a tannery not far from here, producing leather in all sorts of colours. The dye-stuff were delivered in big barrel-shapped plastic tubs, with close fitting lids. I managed to scrounge a couple of these. Hold about 2 bags of feed (25kg size bags).
Unfortunately NOT totally rat proof, although the rats that got in had a 'platform' to stand on beside the tub. Once we moved the platform away, none ever got in there again, but there was a hole!

[Apple Betty]

I use our old metal coal bunkers - one is big enough for a bale of shavings and the other has the bags of feed, grit, bucket & cleaning stuff etc in.

[MaureenHall]

Just had a look on the Ikea website, the Knodd bins come in 5 different colours, White, Red, Yellow, Blue and Light Green. I'm thinking of getting one for each of the runs so I'm not doing trips backwards and forwards from the house every night and every morning. The feeders are usually empty (ish) at night anyway so I could just refill in the runs every morning. Just one squelchy plod in the wet weather instead of 3
http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/search/?query=knodd

[RichmondHens]

That's what I've started to do Maureen. I have metal dustbins standing outside the main enclosures so saves hacking back and forth to the feed shed. I have one with the sack of feed in, and another to put the feeder in away from the rats overnight. I secure the lids with bungees. It's certainly saving me time in the mornings.

[pdblake]

I use plastic rubbish bins from Wilkinson. I've not had any rats or mice problems in the 18months I've used them. I paid £6.99 but think they might have gone up to £7.99 now.

Me too


(plus a bit of padding 'cos the message is too short)

[Polly Fouracre]

I also use thick plastic dustbins. They seem to do the trick.

[pipscariad]

Galvanised for me now, after two (not cheap) plastic bins were bitten through - that was false economy buying those, should have bitten the bullet and got a metal bin first time. Ah well, we live and learn!

The Ikea bins sound great, I had to pay £16 for mine !

[RedThorn]

are the 16l bins big enough to hold a full 25kgs?

[elizajay]

I used a plastic rubbish bin, I found that mice gnawed a hole in the lid and I stopped using it when a very well fed mouse jumped out of the scrunched down feed bag.