We used loose minerals in the mojave desert where a calm day is anything below 35 mph winds. The secret is in the feeder, open topped feeders won't get the job done. The attached site is for a pds file that deals with BCS, nutrition and reproduction. It's about half way down the page and is written by Dennis B. Herd, L. R. Sprott ans is titled Body Condition, Nutrition and Reproduction of Beef Cows
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> Since I was the one that AI'd her,
> I know that she is due on April
> 25, and is five days overdue, but
> I guess that is not uncommon. Have
> seen a discharge off and on over
> the course of the last week or so.
> She is making bag, but not totally
> filled out, though her teats are
> pretty engorged looking. This
> heifer hasn't missed a meal since
> she figured out what I really did
> on this place.... LOL... I bumped
> her this morning and felt the calf
> kick back, so that was sort of a
> relief.... I didn't understand
> body score until after the vet
> told me the heifers were
> over-conditioned. I ASSUMED (you
> know what that means....) that as
> long as I could see the tail head,
> I was okay... the vet about choked
> when I told him that. He recovered
> and told me that if I had kept
> feeding until the tail head
> disappeared, the heifer would have
> been too fat to even eat! I won't
> claim proficiency on body score,
> but I do have a better idea of
> what it looks like than I did two
> months ago, that is for sure! Look
> at the first article on the home
> page... how is one to decipher
> that thing? I use a computer, but
> computer talk is like greek to me
> when I try to follow it... the
> same with nutrition of a cow. I
> can spell every word, I can even
> define most of them, but making
> sense of the words together, just
> is not computing in my brain. The
> reason I do not use the loose
> mineral is because of the mighty
> winds that blow through here...
> most of it would end up down the
> acreage someplace. Catch you
> later... Omak
BCS from A&M