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Useing creep as a tool leading to early weaning should work well as a drought strategy. Calves are typically much more efficient on a tmr than creep. Lactating cows use a lot of energy producing milk. In good body condition cows use a lot less energy. So if you can keep your cows in good rig...

Are you trying to make veal, a couple months at 3 lbs a day is only going to be 180 more pounds, and that would be doing decent for blind 4 weights. But, you only end up with 580lb calves, and you should be aiming for 1300+ lb to slaughter. If you want a cheap animal to make meat out of; I would...

You have to look and breed for structure first, or the fantasy numbers won’t come true.

How can anyone tell without at least a picture?

What did you come up with?

What are the correct numbers?

So the mineral is 10% phosphorus as per label. We know monocalcium phosphate is 21% phosphorus and the only ingredient that contains much phosphorus except for ddgs that only contains around 0.8%. So we take 10% divided by 21% and end up with 47.6%. Monocalcium phosphate is also around 16%...

Just did the math from the label on the website. With estimation for total pounds of micro/additive components.

I know it’s a salt, but they don’t included it in labeled salt content, that is reserved for NaCl .

The “10” appears to have quite a bit of monocalcium phosphate in it ~47% which will regulate intake to some extent, ~30-36% ddg’s which will drive intake, ~7.5% calcium carbonate which is fairly neutral for intake, ~5.4% magnesium oxide which tastes bad to cattle, ~4% potassium chloride which is...

The plants in your pasture and how you fertilize also matters. It’s best to have a custom mix if you can. I use a small concrete mixer to mix my own. I find that I can get a lot more bang for my buck and can very my mix throughout the season; adjusting magnesium, vitamins, and potassium etc. as...

Calcium : Phosphorus ratio is aka Ca:P

Calcium carbonate is an important part of a balancer mineral. The Ca:P ratio can get out of wack because distillers is high in phosphorus. Bicarbonate is a rumen buffer and may be include, because if the rumen gets too acidic you will have sulfuric acid “burps” causing brainers. The acidic rumen...

I was looking into ammonium chloride as an npn source alternative to urea. Ammonium Chloride acidifys the urine dissolving stones. My question for you is, do the goats or sheep back off feed when you add it in?

Haha, I’m not one to flaunt my diploma. But, it appears we need to submit resumes so our posts aren’t deem worthless. I’ve never had people be so rude to me in the ag world.

I’m saying test the cows after they eat the mineral. I have an animal science degree from Iowa State University, and lack quantm mechanics from a chem minor. If you don’t want advise from the internet, don’t go to the internet for advise.

My wife would inform you, that my reading comprehension is far superior to my listening skills. :) The mineral tags I have seen have ingredient lists. An independent lab won’t give you the best results, you need real world animal absorption. Cows arn’t going to use lab techniques to separate...

They usually mark expected consumption on the bag. It can usually be roughly estimated by the percent phosphorus. Then I would look at iu’s of zinc, copper, and vitamins(mostly if you aren’t on green grass). You want to also take not of selenium (some areas need it more, some breeds need it...

You may look into salt limiting a different protein supplement, if there is good access to water. Depending on the volume of protein you need it may or may not make since.

I have no problem with fh and her business. It just comes down to paying for convenience, in our feedlot I pay for the convenience of mixed mineral. When I was needing to mix more stuff into my mineral I lost most of the convenience factor. In my book there is nothing wrong with doing stuff “in...