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anyone NOT use mineral?
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<blockquote data-quote="Banjo" data-source="post: 926713" data-attributes="member: 17304"><p>Someone posted on here that the red is some kind of coloring and it isn't the iron oxide any more making it red. However, me personally I don't like anything with iron oxide in it, ferrous sulfate is better IMO. Southern States mineral is gray looking with no Iron oxide but their filler is ground limestone which is also cheap.</p><p>I don't fault any one for feeding minerals and I do think cattle do need salt,that's why I feed sea salt that has a myriad of trace minerals far more than the regular trace mineralised feed store salt..... sodium is very important at the cellular level.</p><p>If the guy whose mineral bill for 30 cows was $6000 yr then it would cost me $20000/yr. to do that for a 100 cows</p><p>If I spent $20000/yr on mineral and $20000/yr on fertilize or just half of that, then I would be better off to not get out of bed of a morning. Last year my feeders averaged $700/ea.....it would take almost 60 calves before I would see the first dime. Then if I bought several thousand dollars worth of feed and creep fed my calves and then after weaning, which i have done in the past. Where does it end!!! I might as well sell the farm if this is as good as it gets.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Banjo, post: 926713, member: 17304"] Someone posted on here that the red is some kind of coloring and it isn't the iron oxide any more making it red. However, me personally I don't like anything with iron oxide in it, ferrous sulfate is better IMO. Southern States mineral is gray looking with no Iron oxide but their filler is ground limestone which is also cheap. I don't fault any one for feeding minerals and I do think cattle do need salt,that's why I feed sea salt that has a myriad of trace minerals far more than the regular trace mineralised feed store salt..... sodium is very important at the cellular level. If the guy whose mineral bill for 30 cows was $6000 yr then it would cost me $20000/yr. to do that for a 100 cows If I spent $20000/yr on mineral and $20000/yr on fertilize or just half of that, then I would be better off to not get out of bed of a morning. Last year my feeders averaged $700/ea.....it would take almost 60 calves before I would see the first dime. Then if I bought several thousand dollars worth of feed and creep fed my calves and then after weaning, which i have done in the past. Where does it end!!! I might as well sell the farm if this is as good as it gets. [/QUOTE]
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