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| we take our plastic feed bags back to the mill for the dep. Paper bags are eather filled W/burnable trash or used to keep down the weeds. Paper is then plowed under.
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if building a corral wad feed sacks up and shove them in some square fencing. poor concrete ontop to seal them off.  handy tip!
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We used to braid the twine strings into rugs. Just like a rag (your old bibs) rugs.
They were great for the mud room, or anywhere else you needed a hearty rug.
That was after we'd fixed all the fences, tied up license plates, pull rope for hitch pin.
I have the same ideas' with feed sacks. Paper ones are recycled w/ other plain paper. I've assumed the woven are plastic. My feed provider "Manna Pro" keeps changing between the two.
The paper ones do make great fire starters.
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We can't use pre-used strings for much. Once they are outside for a month, our strings rot to nothing, keeping them from wraping round tires ect.
Read your post to a friend who said..shucks, when I'm done with my bibs..you can't even use them for floss. It's funny cuz it's true.
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medowbrook (3/4/2009)
we take our plastic feed bags back to the mill for the dep. Paper bags are eather filled W/burnable trash or used to keep down the weeds. Paper is then plowed under. I asked my feed mill if they would take the bags back - sadly, no. I figure once my manure pile is really well composted, I'll start selling it by the (feed) bag and that will use them up! Sometimes, I cut them up and flatten them out, then use them to block drafts in the barn - as long as the goats can't get to them, and pull them off. 
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Wow.
But I live in Poverty Central. It's another mile stone of the times.. here we never changed and Bet you someone will "discover" this concept of take'n feed bags back for reuse. Probly write a book all about it. and get rich.
Actually I'm starting to think I should just rebuild the Grain Bins and use them. I'm running threw a few 100 lbs of grain a day, getting 14 bags every saturday is a pain in the neck, and think of the plastic bags I would not have to keep.
The Chicken Coop is built around the grain bin, any spillage piles up on the Coop floor and the birds get it. Those old timers didn't waste nothing.
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| We used to be able to take our bags back to the feed mill (no deposit money back on them, though) then someone decided that the practice had a potential for spreading disease from farm to farm and they banned it. Like they think we dumb farmers drag our feed sacks through the manure or something, I guess!
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Being new to having a hobby farm with horses, I was wondering what to do with all that bale string. I didn't want to just toss it. I really like the braiding idea. I really like this post, I hope others will add their ideas 
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Are the bags anything like the plastic rice bags you get at the store? I've heard there is a growing demand for those kinds of bags to use as containers for patio gardening. You could use them as a planter, or see if someone in the city wants them for that purpose.
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| Depending on your tub...we use ours for water trough when in a pinch. We have worm growing in some and then we chase the worms out and plant tomatoes in them. We put goldfish in some and use their water to water the plants with and add more water back if it hasn't rainned. If you get the ones with lids they make storing your feed safe from mice and the moisture. The tans ones that we buy once in a blue moon are sturdy enough to stand on when washing the vehicles. I use them around the place to catch rain water off the buildings. If you have chickens you can turn them up side down and cut a "n" in them and put hay in them for winter nesting boxes. They make good dog houses if your dog is small enough. The cat sleeps in one, too. If the bags are plastic I send them off with my mom, who in turns gives them to my uncle and they come back with grain in them once a month. We fill the sacks with hay and let P2 use them as target practice with his bow and arrow. If you have burr lap sacks put them on the ground and put a little corn meal under them and wet them a little to catch crickets. Depending on the twine you can make braclets with it.
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