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who's trying to be funny i'm serious you newbies think raising cows and calves is all fun and games. you are in for a rude awakening. problem is it is the cows and calves that suffer when you don't know jack from apple butter about what you are doing! Very well said! Norris

I am not going to be much help here; but I just had to put down a calf that sounded exactly the same. It look like he had passed his intentine lining, but more bloody than green. Tubed him for two weeks, never could get him to take more than a pint at a time from the bottle. He started looking...

Pour-on's just don't seem to work well for us. We alternate every six months with Ivomec injectable and Valbazen. The combination seems to handle everything.

Yes! The TDN (total digestable nutrients) of grass hay is 46%; yellow corn 81%; Cottonseed meal 69%; and fats, oils & tallow 195%.

I really don't give my replacement heifers anything but free choice salt and minerals when they have good pasture. In July or August when the pastures get dry and the growth of the grass slows down, I feed about 2#'s per day of a 4-n-1 salt mix. Young heifers will not eat a pound of salt per...

Bless you sir! A sane voice at last! Thought I was crying in the wilderness on this one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I was using a Moorman high phos but it got a little pricy. Switched to a Land o Lakes 12% phos mineral just this week.

No, this feed it not cheap. It is an excellent source of protein at 1/4 the cost of tubs. Tubs are just outrageously high. I even went to a trade show and told the "tub people" that if they convinced me that their tubs were worth the price I'd buy a couple of semi-loads a year. I really like the...

There is NO increase in water consumption! Try it before you knock it.

This is really nuts! People have been feeding 2-n-1 and 4-n-1, etc for hundreds of years in every state we've been in from Florida, to Georgia, to Arkansas, to Louisiana, to Texas. Can't believe no one seems to have heard of it. Certainly nothing new! Check with your local feed store or mill...

No! Salt is just a limiter! Some people feed 2 &1 which means 2 parts cottonseed meal to 1 part salt. The cows will eat 3# per day (1 # salt, 2 # cottonseed meal). No need to hand feed; just put out 21# per cow once a week. 2 & 1 is 28% protein and they will be getting a little over 1/2 of P per...

There really is no brand name. It is a generic feed that almost any feed store in the South can get for you. Just make sure they use cottonseed meal and salt to get the protein up. We like a feed put out by a mill in Lewisville, Arkansas; they actually restore the vegtable oil and you get a much...

If you used the same bull, the problem is not with the bull. Fall calving heifers are coming off of poor late summer grass and have lighter calves. You think you're doing your winter calving heifers a favor by feeding them, but all you're doing is making the calf bigger. We used to have some of...

No question, feeding cows a little feed once a day is cheaper and better. You pay almost as much for salt as you do for feed. If you have a 3 & 1 salt and meal mix the cow will only eat 4 to 5 pounds a day. Salt limits their compumption. In really bad weather when I'm trying to get more TDN in...

To my knowledge there is NOTHING in a tub that stimulates appetite except protein. We dont't feed meal daily. The reason for the salt is that it acts as a limiter. A cow will generally eat one pound of salt per day. Young cows less, older cows a little more. We put a weeks worth of feed out once...

I assume you're purchasing a 200# tubb for $65; that is $650 per ton! Holy Moly! If your tub is 20% all natual and 20 cows eat 200# per month that means each cow is only getting 10 pounds per month or 3/10 of a pound per day. At 20% P you are only giving your cows .0667 pounds of P supplement...

Most people in the South feed nothing but cottonseed meal. It is an excellent feed at 40% + p and 80% TDN. Been using it for 25 years with no problems. It is my understanding that the only problem with glypolsol (?) and bulls is when you feed large amounts of unprocessed whole cottonseed. No way...

Tubs are the MOST expensive way to go! You're probably paying close to $600 per ton for something you can buy in a sack for $200. They are easy and that's the only thing they've got going for them. The dealers will say they'll eat less; OK pour a little syrup on a concrete block, a whole lot...

Expensive to get set up with electric clippers, brass irons and large open nitrogen tank. Never could get it to work well. Two or three would be fine 20 or 30 wouldn't take. The two or three would then have hair regrowth in a year or so. Very time comsuming; have to shave the area with surgical...