If you are a chicken-keeper, then surely you have gone through more bags of feed than you care to recall. I always have empty feed bags on hand and have no shortage of uses for them!
Framed feed bag art for my chicken coop
COOP ART. There are many uses for feed bags, from garden weed blocker to tote bags. I even created ‘art’ for my chicken coop by placing the front half of a feed bag in a plastic 16″ X 20″ frame.
DROPPINGS BOARDS LINERS. Staple empty feed bags onto droppings boards underneath roosts to facilitate the removal of droppings from the coop daily to ensure a dry, clean, healthy environment for chickens.
Staple empty feed bags onto the walls behind the roosts. It’s much easier to replace soiled feed bags than it is to scrape chicken poop off the walls!
FEED BAG FLOWER POUCH. View the video tutorial for these adorable feed bag flower pouches on my Facebook page at this link!
TOTE BAG: Here is my best attempt to date at sewing a tote bag from feed bags. It’s sturdy and spacious, but as I am barely competent to drive a sewing machine, I have no tutorial to share. I totally punted.
SUBSTITUTE TYVEK MAILING ENVELOPE: I forgot to pick up shipping envelopes for mailing merchandise to Italy one day when it occurred to me that feed bags are at least as sturdy as Tyvek®, so out came the sewing machine again!
“TATER TOTES” POTATO GROW BAGS: Learn how to grow potatoes in a feed bag HERE!
“CHRISTMAS FEED BAG STOCKINGS: Get my Christmas stocking tutorial with template HERE!
Some other great uses for feed bags are: a tablecloth, garden weed-blocker, place-mats, coop water-proofing, tarp, coop insulation, sick bay crate liner, beehive winter shelter windbreak.
Stapled to my winter beehive shed, empty feed bags act as a windbreak, providing protection from harsh, winter winds and precipitation.
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If you are a chicken-keeper, then surely you have gone through more bags of feed than you care to recall. I always have empty feed bags on hand and have no shortage of uses for them!
Framed feed bag art for my chicken coop
COOP ART. There are many uses for feed bags, from garden weed blocker to tote bags. I even created ‘art’ for my chicken coop by placing the front half of a feed bag in a plastic 16″ X 20″ frame.
DROPPINGS BOARDS LINERS. Staple empty feed bags onto droppings boards underneath roosts to facilitate the removal of droppings from the coop daily to ensure a dry, clean, healthy environment for chickens.
Staple empty feed bags onto the walls behind the roosts. It’s much easier to replace soiled feed bags than it is to scrape chicken poop off the walls!
FEED BAG FLOWER POUCH. View the video tutorial for these adorable feed bag flower pouches on my Facebook page at this link!
TOTE BAG: Here is my best attempt to date at sewing a tote bag from feed bags. It’s sturdy and spacious, but as I am barely competent to drive a sewing machine, I have no tutorial to share. I totally punted.
SUBSTITUTE TYVEK MAILING ENVELOPE: I forgot to pick up shipping envelopes for mailing merchandise to Italy one day when it occurred to me that feed bags are at least as sturdy as Tyvek®, so out came the sewing machine again!
“TATER TOTES” POTATO GROW BAGS: Learn how to grow potatoes in a feed bag HERE!
“CHRISTMAS FEED BAG STOCKINGS: Get my Christmas stocking tutorial with template HERE!
Some other great uses for feed bags are: a tablecloth, garden weed-blocker, place-mats, coop water-proofing, tarp, coop insulation, sick bay crate liner, beehive winter shelter windbreak.
Stapled to my winter beehive shed, empty feed bags act as a windbreak, providing protection from harsh, winter winds and precipitation.
I have been making totes from feed bags for quite a few years….I now sell them out of a boutique in Ouray, CO. Tourists love them! We also use them for all sorts of packing and traveling in our daily life as well as use them for our grocery bags….always get compliments and make a sale or two! All proceeds buy new feed for the girls!!! :0)
Outstanding use, Marsha! As long as there is sufficient ventilation for moisture to escape, of course.
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I've discovered a great use for colorful and sturdy feed bags. In trying to recycle a drafty old chicken coop, I was concerned about the winter cold air sapping the energy of my girls. So armed with a staple gun and scissors, i wallpapered the inside of my old coop with bags. I simply cut off the bottom seam and left them doubled for insulation. It's cute to look at, easy to clean, and working wonderfully after 3 harsh winters.
fill them full of soil and stack them making a storage shed just put some barb wire between corses and get creative .
Do you remember as a kid makeing book covers for school out of paper bags? Well, my kids needed book covers this year and since stores around here no longer bag groceries in paper bags, in came the feed bag. Works just like paper bags. Also, I have sewn together 28 feed bags to make a large tarp, to cover and shade a coop.
Love the totes! I love it that you decorate your chicken coop! Thanks for sharing at repurposed ideas weekly.