Bakery Feed

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Does any one here have any experience with Bakery Feed? This is unsold bakery returns from grocery stores. They reprocess into livestock feed. This seems to be more economical than the $10 racks at the day old stores. Especially with today's fuel costs. A man on anouther farm forum told me the TDN is around 10-11% & he dousn't use any supliments. Any thing you could add would be apreciated. Thanks

-- Okie-Dokie (www.tommycflinstone@aol.com), March 12, 2000

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My neighbor feeds his pigs on shredded leftover bakery goods, old bags of chips from a nearby distributer, and what-have-you. He also feeds his poultry the same. (Do old fritos and potato chips have the same nutritional value as regular feed? not sure). However, we have eaten both pork and turkey from his farm, and the flavor leaves quite a bit to be desired. The pork had a funny, faint taste - could be the doritos and bbq pork rinds. The turkeys were flaccid and his drop-out (death) rate was too high. I don't know if what you're describing is the same type of food. I know this wasn't much help, but to me , the extra cost involved in regular feed as well as the proven benefits and fattening/flavor is worth the $$$. Perhaps looking into growing your own??? Good luck.

-- judi (jeddfd91789@aol.com), March 12, 2000.

I feed day old bakery to mt pigs,chickens,cows and goats.A local store saves there day old bakery (cakes,pies,cookies,bread,ect.) and produce for me , no charge!I have eaten the best pork I ever had.For bakery you get grain ,wheat , corn ect.My animals are heathy and happy! They can't wait to see what the get next.

-- Patty Gamble (fodfarms@slic.com), March 12, 2000.

We feed the bakery items to our sheep and cattle. We pay $4.00 a stack. It takes a little time each day to take it out of the plastic sacks and a minute to dispose of those sacks. We started them on the bread slowly and built up how much we feed, and backed the amount of grain we feed down in proportion. We have watched the condition of the livestock as the winter progressed. Our sheep and cattle have never looked better. The neighbor mentioned the other day about what good condition our livestock was in.

The animals are on to the bread in just a few days. They prefer it over grain and will walk away from the grain to eat the bread. Even the lambs are after the bread in a few days.

We feed whatever happens to be in the stacks. Usually they have poked a hole in each sack or made a cut. That is to discourage the use for people food. Often, the items are just barely out of date and many are carrying the same date that we get it. We take the nicest and fanciest for the house and share with our neighbors and friends on the day we have been to the bakery. We put scotch tape over the hole in the sack, and sometimes they have no holes. It is beautiful bread, and often fancier and more expensive than we would ever purchase. Our least favorite to feed to the livestock is the sweets, like cream sticks and donuts. They are messy to handle and sticky.

Biggest caution I would have for you, is to be sure you are actually getting a good buy. One bakery here is $12.00 a stack - too high. We pay $4.00 a stack and can get 7 or 8 stacks on the pick up, if we mash it down a little. That's $32.00.

Also, be sure you are going to be able to continue to get the bakery items consistently before you start to rely on them. One bakery stopped selling outdated items by the stack as animal feed with no forwarning. Some outfit contracted it all and we were left scrambling for a new source.

-- homestead2 (homestead@monroecty.net), March 12, 2000.


Thanks for all the replies. We have fed the stuff from the day old stores for a long time. What I'm talking about is a remanufactured product from the out of date stuff. A processer picks this stuff up & recycles it into an actual feed that looks like a pellet. It costs $75 per ton picked up at the mill about 10 miles from our place. With the cost of gas for the pick-up, it would be more cost effective to use the feed than to make so many trips to the day old store. If any one has used this product I would like to know if it worked out ok. Heard from a man in Houston that uses it for all livestock. Likes it just fine. Thanks a million. Never hurts to get as many opinions as possible.

-- Okie-Dokie (www.tommycflinstone@aol.com), March 12, 2000.

I'm not quite sure if this the same product, but here goes. A cookie company near here used to take the crumbled, burnt, and broken cookies from the line and reprocess them some way to sell for livestock feed. A number of the folks in the area bought it by the truck load for about $60. They had been feeding it out for several loads, when suddenly all of them lost big, pretty Holstein heifers. They all were sure it was the feed, the company denied it could have been, but quit selling the feed. They all lost the cows within 24 hours of getting the feed, all of them getting feed from the same run.

-- Green (ratdogs10@yahoo.com), March 13, 2000.


Back in the Dark Ages when Time & I were young, I lives in Germany for a few years & spent lots of time at a stable. Surprised as I was when I first saw a fellow put dunno know how old bread, but hard enough to survive getting run over by a truck kind of bread in front of the horses & they loved it. They also looked greata, for what it's worth...kt..

-- KT HANKINS (yarsnpinnerkt@hotmail.com), March 13, 2000.

I agree with Judi on this. I am no expert, but I do have chickens. I would never on a regular basis feed them worthless bakery goods.I hope their laying pellets don't contain any either. You are what you eat and I eat their eggs! I feed them fresh vegetable and fruit scraps as well as leftover wholegrain baked goods I make myself in addition to their regular pellets. In the summer, I give them as many undesirable bugs as I can (they don't free range). They are very healthy and lay beautiful eggs!

-- kevin beckey (Kevcin@bemail.com), March 19, 2000.

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