Hello all!
I have a question for you that will help me with my undergraduate research.
On our farm, a few of our fields are dotted with deep and wide holes, cattle made and visited by all ages and sexes, where they rub their faces and lick the dirt. We have a full mineral supplement program offered free choice as well. I will be using ICPOES analysis to look at trace mineral concentration in dig sites as compared to the rest of the field, as well as comparing several other physical factors. My hope is that I will find higher concentrations of trace minerals at the dig sites, and possibly predict where other sites might occur.
I want to know if your cattle are into eating dirt. Can you tell me their age group and sex? Their feed? Your mineral supplement program? Descriptions of sites where dirt eating occurs (approx size, soil characteristics, landscape position)? Soil Type?
This would be so helpful to me!
Many thanks in advance
~Virginia
Student Beef Operation Manager, Warren Wilson College.
I have a question for you that will help me with my undergraduate research.
On our farm, a few of our fields are dotted with deep and wide holes, cattle made and visited by all ages and sexes, where they rub their faces and lick the dirt. We have a full mineral supplement program offered free choice as well. I will be using ICPOES analysis to look at trace mineral concentration in dig sites as compared to the rest of the field, as well as comparing several other physical factors. My hope is that I will find higher concentrations of trace minerals at the dig sites, and possibly predict where other sites might occur.
I want to know if your cattle are into eating dirt. Can you tell me their age group and sex? Their feed? Your mineral supplement program? Descriptions of sites where dirt eating occurs (approx size, soil characteristics, landscape position)? Soil Type?
This would be so helpful to me!
Many thanks in advance
~Virginia
Student Beef Operation Manager, Warren Wilson College.