Feed Sacks for Traveling - help!

[leighbo009]

Somewhere, I can’t remember if it was on here or facebook or what, but someone shared a link to a site with lots of colors of reusable smaller (but not too small) sacks - mainly for the purpose of using for traveling with individual portions of feed.

I have found a couple similar, but haven’t found the original ones that were shared. I believe they had a velcro, almost waterproof closing - not the drawstring I am finding. (but could be wrong!). This site also had 2 different sizes. It may have not been a US site, but I am not sure.

Any help with finding would be appreciated!

edited to add: They had really bright colors, like lime, pink, purple, teal, etc.

[Montanas_Girl]

We used these for feed prep when I was in grad school:

Feed Bags Assorted Colors

I don’t remember them having Velcro, but they might?

When I travel, I pack meals for my horse(s) in pre-labeled Ziploc bags. The bags go into a lidded 5-gallon bucket that a supplement came in once upon a time. Super easy and convenient to transport that way!

[leighbo009]

We currently do the ziplocks, but I think it would be easier with multiple horses to have them color coded. But if I don’t find what I’m thinking of, I will continue with the ziplocks.

[wildlifer]

With assorted colors of tape, you can make your ziplocs color coded. And I’ve been using the same ones for years, so they can definitely be re usable. light duty dry bags would also fit your original description & come in lots of colors. Might be pricey, but I have learned over the years that most people on this board have a lot more $ than me, so ymmv.

[BrownDerby]

Disposable Sandwich, Snack, Food Storage Bags | Reusable Lunch Bags

These might work. There was a thread a while back (“Meal Prep Bags”) that had good suggestions.

[Mouse_amp_Bay]

Costco has the ‘to go’ containers (black bottom, clear top). Great for portioning feed and easy to reuse. Mine are still going 5+ years on, though I’ve lost a couple lids through the years … they also make wonderful mini-greenhouse for starting seeds.

[house]

@leighbo009

We currently do the ziplocks

I use Gallon zip locks and just write the horses names with a sharpie on their bags

[LCDR]

IIRC from my Pony Club days in the last century, plastic bags were verboten for feed storage in the USPC manuals. Paper bags were for traveling with pre-measured servings of feed. Has this changed, or has my memory gone awry?

[trubandloki]

@LCDR

Has this changed, or has my memory gone awry?

It has not changed.

[pony_grandma]

DD collects people’s plastic coffee tubs and uses and reuses those.

[leighbo009]

I finally stumbled across the bags I had saw. They are drawstring, but so many different colors. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like they ship to the US.

Bags

[DMK]

I use ziplock bags, but it’s just 1lb equalizer and a little bit of beet pulp pellets so that’s easy enough and I’m only worrying about one equine, so even easier. He also gets some soaked alfalfa cubes in the AM (instead of grain). I keep the bags and reuse them quite a few times. The only time I don’t reuse is for FEI events. I rarely mix supps in there and the most he ever gets is 1 gr bute, but no sense taking chances with a zero tolerance rule.

What made my life easier for show/traveling was to get one of those screw on bucket toppers lids for the home depot 5gallon buckets. I can pack 5 days ziplock bags, supplement cups (little plastic tubs, self mix), a few little cups of horse quencher (for marathon and pre shipping) and his alfalfa cubes all in that 5 gallon bucket (cubes go in loose first, everything else on top). Plus nothing can get into those buckets it so I can store it right by his stall with his hay bags (driving people generally don’t do tack stalls, they are relatively pointless in our world). The used bags/tubs get stored in the bucket when not in use.

[house]

@LCDR

USPC manuals

I had to go look up the USPC manuals, talk about micro managing. do they disqualify based of this stuff?

I typically pre-package my grain for when we are traveling, we have 8 horses and when we stop at night it is easy to feed everyone grain with minimal fuss. Then once we get to shows I just dump the grain/supplements in trash cans and feed out of them twice a day.

I have never had a problem with the grain in zip lock bags for 3, I guess If you kept them longer it could be an issue.

[erinmeri]

You could probably find an analogue here that isn’t marketed for such use (like this) by googling “polyester drawstring bag” and the dimensions in inches.

[trubandloki]

@house

I had to go look up the USPC manuals, talk about micro managing. do they disqualify based of this stuff?

Does “this stuff” mean the way they require feed to be packaged and labelled?

Disqualify? No. But you will get horse management points which no one wants, especially for something so clearly written in the rule book.

As far as ziploc bags working. I think most people that have traveled with their horse can attest to that.

[bdj]

How many do you need? I’m thinking that something like a dry bag that you’d use for kayaking might work, but buying a lot of them could get pricey…

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