I created a Microsoft excel spreadsheet which estimates cost and supply days based on feed time (in seconds) and frequency. You will need excel on your pc to open the spreadsheet. These are broad estimates..your mileage will vary. :-)

Screen shot:


Download excel spreadsheet:
http://www.fileswap.com/dl/XxSoZ4PT/CornCalc.xlsx.html

Very nice, much appreciated.

I'm going to use it and calculate a 20% loss do to the coons.

Where did you get the calculation for the rate of feed?

LOL the reason I did it was estimating how much it was costing me to feed hawgs and coons...cause I rarely see a deer on the trail cam.

very nice, thanks.

txshntr: you could hold a bucket under the spinner plate and measure how much corn is dispensed each time

Hey don't give all the old timer secrets away to these young guys OBTW use a fishing scale to weigh it also.

my fishing scale isn't sensitive enough to measure such small weights!

Pretty sure I could figure out how to measure the corn, was just curious where his measurements came from.


Dunt insut me intelignets

Great Idea by the way and well done...I would plug mine into it, but after the thread "How much do you spend on hunting," I am done figuring total cost...that made me

I pulled the feed rate baseline from moultrie. The feed rate formula adds 20% to that rate for each 2 seconds...I sanity checked it against my moultrie feeders and its fairly close a full 55gal feeder supply is 3 months throwing 2x day for 8 seconds.

I do not pay tax on my deer corn.

Thanks

Mine is JJH, you just have to see the size fish that I am used to catching

A new all time low for me on this...waffling on a corn feeding thread. Nice cover though

I want some of that 50# corn for $6.99. LOL

JJ

Way too many variables on feeders and corn for this to work. My feeder puts out 3# in 4 seconds.

Change the .75 to 3 lbs then! It is just an estimator Mr. Grumpy.

It looks good.

Not grumpy, it just won't work for reason stated. Won't work on two identical feeders........

Academy has 40 lbs. bag for 6.99 now til Sunday.

that calculator is way off.

We just hold a garbage sack around the feeder timer and hit the test button. We then pour the corn in the garbage sack into a marked zip lock bag to be weighed on a dietary scale.

I think all of ours were throwing around a one pound per throw. So, (and this where all that high math learning paid off) if it throws a pound a throw, two time a day, that is, well let's see....yep, that is two pounds a day from one feeder! Now, let's see....300 pounds in the feeder/2 pounds a day, well that is 150 days worth of corn in the feeder. 150 days or 5 months.

thanks for the info!!

ah sure makes me laugh sometimes just thinking about it

ah sure makes me laugh sometimes just thinking about it

The spreadsheet will work, but each feeder would have to be tested to see how much corn is being thrown (by actual weight), then plug that into the equation.
Cool, Thanks