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<blockquote data-quote="Caustic Burno" data-source="post: 1025904" data-attributes="member: 694"><p>Brute it doesn't matter where you operate it takes thirty pound's of forage to fill up a cow per day.</p><p>You have to have stockpiled grass, hay, browse, straw or something to fill up the cow. No matter how much hay you or I fed you had to have that forage available for the cattle not to loose condition . You can put a tub out or feed three pound's a day and that cow will walk herself to death searching for forage cause she is hungry.</p><p>You can satisfy a cow's nutrition needs on 3 pound's of feed a day you still need 27 pound's to fill her up. More if she is a wet cow. You can feed range meal for 300 a ton or tub's for 1800 a ton to get the protein. Liquid feed like Cattlelac is 400 dollar's a ton for 30 % protein. It boil's down to what you are paying a ton for protien. You can do the same thing with 300 dollar a ton range meal using salt as a limiter as you can with a tub.</p><p>You take 12% range meal I am getting 240 pound's of protien per ton you are getting 600 pound's per ton out of a tub.</p><p>For the same money I can buy 6 ton's of range meal getting 1440 pound's of protien.</p><p></p><p>You are buying convenience.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Caustic Burno, post: 1025904, member: 694"] Brute it doesn't matter where you operate it takes thirty pound's of forage to fill up a cow per day. You have to have stockpiled grass, hay, browse, straw or something to fill up the cow. No matter how much hay you or I fed you had to have that forage available for the cattle not to loose condition . You can put a tub out or feed three pound's a day and that cow will walk herself to death searching for forage cause she is hungry. You can satisfy a cow's nutrition needs on 3 pound's of feed a day you still need 27 pound's to fill her up. More if she is a wet cow. You can feed range meal for 300 a ton or tub's for 1800 a ton to get the protein. Liquid feed like Cattlelac is 400 dollar's a ton for 30 % protein. It boil's down to what you are paying a ton for protien. You can do the same thing with 300 dollar a ton range meal using salt as a limiter as you can with a tub. You take 12% range meal I am getting 240 pound's of protien per ton you are getting 600 pound's per ton out of a tub. For the same money I can buy 6 ton's of range meal getting 1440 pound's of protien. You are buying convenience. [/QUOTE]
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