Our veterinarians like for us to leave rations in the bag we buy them.
Then feed out of the bags.
If there is any problem we can tell which kind and bag and test it.
They also say this way you use the whole bag, then throw it away and open a new one.
They have seen too many people leave corners of the old feed when they add new feed to bins and some gets moldy in those corners, but that can be helped by being scrupulous about cleaning very good wherever grain is stored.
When all you had in feed bins was oats, it was not going to go bad if you left some on the bottom and added more oats.
The new rations with all kinds of stuff mixed into them?
Those you better keep the area clean, don’t want oils to get rancid or processed grains and other products moldy.
The main reason to store grain other than in the sacks is if there are rodents getting in there, which they should not in a well built feed room.
If that may be or become a problem, we can still store the full sack in containers and use the feed right out of the sacks.
Since we have rodent proof feed rooms, we use processed horse rations right out of the bags.
Walmart, Home Depot, and Lowes have all kinds of plastic and galvanized cans that could work for grain, some with wheels also.
Here are some galvanized ones, but they are round and no wheels.
Some of their plastic ones are square and some have wheels:
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Behrens-3…3=3383&veh=sem
We were using the galvanized ones for decades, until our vets told us to keep those kinds of feeds in their sacks in them, which we did, until we now have rodent safe feed rooms.
