How do you store bulky feeds like chaff?

[Muddy unicorn]

My daughter’s horse is moving yards to one where we organise his food. He’s out during the day and in at night with haylage and has two small meals a day (handful of balancer and chaff with a few oats if he needs a bit of an energy boost). The balancer and oats are in bins but the chaff takes up so much space - we’ve filled a large bin but that’s barely made a dent. She’ll have her own tack room but it’s not enormous and everything needs to go in there. Any genius storage ideas gratefully accepted 😊

 

[AmyMay]

I always keep it in its bag within my feed chest.

 

[meleeka]

How about one of the blue plastic barrels?

I have an old freezer which fits everything in.

 

[JillA]

I keep it in the bag (Grazon - it is pretty much bale size) but I no longer have a rodent problem since my feral cats came to stay. Before I couldn't keep anything in bags

 

[ester]

I've never had an issue leaving chaff in bags in the barn. Though on livery I did inherit a chest freezer so all the bags used to go in there.

 

[scats]

I empty chaff into a feed bin and then the remaining goes in an old freezer I have. I just keep topping the bin up as required.

 

[asmp]

Another one for chest freezers. Just picked another one from up from Freecyle last week so have 3 now. Great for storing rugs too (rats chewed a huge hole in one of my rugs once)

 

[criso]

I have one of these 110l bins. Fits a bag of chaff or easily 2 bags of other feeds. Rodents haven't chewed these yet though they did my normal plastic bins. They don't take up much more room than the standard size bin.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Keto-Plast...words=keto+plastics+bin&qid=1572174960&sr=8-2

 

[milliepops]

squashing the chaff down as you pour it into the bin makes a big difference too. If I have to decant chaff into bins then I stop 2 or 3 times to really press it down and then add more. You can fit a lot more in then

 

[HashRouge]

I have this every year - I put as much in the bin as I can then keep the bag with the rest in my car. Which means my car smells like chaff all winter... I think this year I am going to try without chaff and just feed speedibeet.

 

[Muddy unicorn]

Thanks for the tips - I’ll try some chaff-squashing later 😂 (we just poured it in so that should help) plus I’ve found an old chest we used to use for garden storage which may work too