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anyone NOT use mineral?
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<blockquote data-quote="cow pollinater" data-source="post: 921796" data-attributes="member: 14661"><p>Footrot is a fairly common ailment in our foothill cattle. I haven't had a case this year while a nieghbor of mine that doesn't use mineral has had three cases and he's only got forty cows with genetics similar to mine. I can't really say on grass tetany as we never got the conditions right for it to hit hard but I haven't seen any this year. Same with scours.</p><p>On my registered herd, I don't see the copper color on the tops of my angus cows anymore and I am getting them bred back alot faster. I got to where I was syncing cows when I wasn't using mineral just to get them cycling at forty five days and for the last two years I've been able to breed them all on natural heats just by glancing at them once a day.</p><p>The real noticable diferance has been on the charolais heifers. I was having a hard time getting them cycling to calve as two year olds and now they're maturing a little quicker. </p><p>I had a dairyman that decided that mineral was just another way for feed salesman to make money and cattle didn't need it. To prove it he pulled it out of the feed without saying anything to anybody and sat back and waited. It took three weeks for the cattle to become deficient and about forty five days after that for me to notice that something was "off". The vets and herdsman didn't notice and it was subtle but it was there. I finally showed him on paper where things went bad and he put the mineral back in. It took about two weeks and then things got back to normal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cow pollinater, post: 921796, member: 14661"] Footrot is a fairly common ailment in our foothill cattle. I haven't had a case this year while a nieghbor of mine that doesn't use mineral has had three cases and he's only got forty cows with genetics similar to mine. I can't really say on grass tetany as we never got the conditions right for it to hit hard but I haven't seen any this year. Same with scours. On my registered herd, I don't see the copper color on the tops of my angus cows anymore and I am getting them bred back alot faster. I got to where I was syncing cows when I wasn't using mineral just to get them cycling at forty five days and for the last two years I've been able to breed them all on natural heats just by glancing at them once a day. The real noticable diferance has been on the charolais heifers. I was having a hard time getting them cycling to calve as two year olds and now they're maturing a little quicker. I had a dairyman that decided that mineral was just another way for feed salesman to make money and cattle didn't need it. To prove it he pulled it out of the feed without saying anything to anybody and sat back and waited. It took three weeks for the cattle to become deficient and about forty five days after that for me to notice that something was "off". The vets and herdsman didn't notice and it was subtle but it was there. I finally showed him on paper where things went bad and he put the mineral back in. It took about two weeks and then things got back to normal. [/QUOTE]
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