Southeast feed mix

[350farms]

What is your thoughts on this feed. I am feeding a couple of steers out and to me this looks like it should be sufficient. Not to mention over $100 dollars a ton cheaper than what I was using.

 

[TexasBred]

What is your thoughts on this feed. I am feeding a couple of steers out and to me this looks like it should be sufficient. Not to mention over $100 dollars a ton cheaper than what I was using.

Not familiar with that particular feed but am familiar with the company that makes it. They handle a huge amount of "damaged" feed ingredients that are salvaged off barges etc. That is their specialty. That grain screening pellet mentioned is nothing but elevator dust and usually is high in aflatoxin and fumonsin. The full fat product is something they gave that name that is high in protein but I never could get them to tell me exactly what it consisted of. You use it if you want and probably won't hurt a thing but I wouldn't use it, Just a personal opinion.

 

[TennesseeTuxedo]

350farms, I would heed the advice you were just given. TB knows nutrition.

 

[Little Joe]

I was told by the rumen nutritionist at the University of Arkansas not to feed anything with cotton byproducts in it to an animal I would be consuming. I know from being around cotton farming that they spray a defoliant on it right before they pick it which would have to leave alot of residue on the hulls,seed and gin trash and that's not something I would want to consume even second hand through the meat.

 

[dieselbeef]

where ya at

 

[350farms]

where ya at

Deville, La

 

[TexasBred]

I was told by the rumen nutritionist at the University of Arkansas not to feed anything with cotton byproducts in it to an animal I would be consuming. I know from being around cotton farming that they spray a defoliant on it right before they pick it which would have to leave alot of residue on the hulls,seed and gin trash and that's not something I would want to consume even second hand through the meat.

Most all the cattle feed in the southern states has been made with cottonseed meal and cottonseed hulls for a hundred years and still is today. During that time there may have been someone affected by the long term affects of defoliant applied to the plant but I've never heard about it. You're more likely to die from water coming out of a water system than from cotton by-products

 

[Little Joe]

I was told by the rumen nutritionist at the University of Arkansas not to feed anything with cotton byproducts in it to an animal I would be consuming. I know from being around cotton farming that they spray a defoliant on it right before they pick it which would have to leave alot of residue on the hulls,seed and gin trash and that's not something I would want to consume even second hand through the meat.

Most all the cattle feed in the southern states has been made with cottonseed meal and cottonseed hulls for a hundred years and still is today. During that time there may have been someone affected by the long term affects of defoliant applied to the plant but I've never heard about it. You're more likely to die from water coming out of a water system than from cotton by-products

That may be true but I don't feed it to mine. I was just repeating what Dr. Gadberry told me. There's lots of cotton grown here in Arkansas so I'm sure since he is at the U of A he has a reason for making that statement.

 

[TexasBred]

Well since meal comes from the inside of the seed and the seed is enclosed with cotton which is almost completely water repellant I doubt the meal would have even a trace of the residue. Gin trash made up of burrs, stems and sticks however, might contain a considerable amount. At one time arsenic acid was used in the defoliant. Ever thought you might be wearing this dangerous stuff?? lol

 

[Little Joe]

Well since meal comes from the inside of the seed and the seed is enclosed with cotton which is almost completely water repellant I doubt the meal would have even a trace of the residue. Gin trash made up of burrs, stems and sticks however, might contain a considerable amount. At one time arsenic acid was used in the defoliant. Ever thought you might be wearing this dangerous stuff?? lol

There's a difference in wearing something and eating something, besides I doubt by the time most cotton goes through the process of being made into clothing that there's much residue left. I'm not one of those tree hugging anti-chemical hippies but when I can reduce my intake of chemicals I do, we ingest alot of chemicals unknowingly which we have no control over. If you doubt what he says maybe you should email him and ask him why he came to that conclusion. His name is Dr. Shane Gadberry, he's the ruminant nutrition specialist at the U of A. After being raised around cotton farming, what he said made sense to me so I didn't question him. I figured in his field he would know alot more about that than me.

 

[TexasBred]

Well since meal comes from the inside of the seed and the seed is enclosed with cotton which is almost completely water repellant I doubt the meal would have even a trace of the residue. Gin trash made up of burrs, stems and sticks however, might contain a considerable amount. At one time arsenic acid was used in the defoliant. Ever thought you might be wearing this dangerous stuff?? lol

There's a difference in wearing something and eating something, besides I doubt by the time most cotton goes through the process of being made into clothing that there's much residue left. I'm not one of those tree hugging anti-chemical hippies but when I can reduce my intake of chemicals I do, we ingest alot of chemicals unknowingly which we have no control over. If you doubt what he says maybe you should email him and ask him why he came to that conclusion. His name is Dr. Shane Gadberry, he's the ruminant nutrition specialist at the U of A. After being raised around cotton farming, what he said made sense to me so I didn't question him. I figured in his field he would know alot more about that than me.

Not doubting he said it Joe but that makes him one out of hundreds of nutritionist that would say that.

 

[Brute 23]

Of all the stuff I'm exposed to on a daily basis... I feel a cow eating cotton seed or meal is the least of my worries.

I'm more worried about this cell phone I'm holding in my hand at the moment.

 

[TexasBred]

Of all the stuff I'm exposed to on a daily basis... I feel a cow eating cotton seed or meal is the least of my worries.

I'm more worried about this cell phone I'm holding in my hand at the moment.

Well if your ear falls off next week you'll know what caused it. :lol: :lol2: :hide: