Peanut Butter

[sstterry]

I normally avoid Facebook like the plague, I only have an account to get on Marketplace from time to time. This morning I saw an ad for someone selling 500/lb barrels of Peanut Butter as a cattle supplement. I did not know this was a thing. I guess it does make sense though.

Does anyone here supplement their stock with Peanut Butter? If so, how do you feed it (meaning the mechanics)? It seems like would almost have to be in something like a lick tub.

 

[SBMF 2015]

I don’t, but I’m guessing it would half way mix in a TMR.

 

[RustyTub]

I saw that ad too and wondered the same thing. Buy 1, put it out free range and video it. That would be hilarious.

 

[Mark Reynolds]

Don't forget to add the jelly so we can see how the cattle mix them!

 

[ClinchValley86]

I saw that too. get peanuts for $0.35 /#

No clue but made me wonder. Doesn't seem all that cheap tho.

The tubs of peanut butter would be a good lick maybe but they'd never stop licking?

 

[Dave]

I saw an ad for someone selling cull apples. $100 for a 7,000 pound load delivered in the Yakima area.

 

[Caustic Burno]

I normally avoid Facebook like the plague, I only have an account to get on Marketplace from time to time. This morning I saw an ad for someone selling 500/lb barrels of Peanut Butter as a cattle supplement. I did not know this was a thing. I guess it does make sense though.

Does anyone here supplement their stock with Peanut Butter? If so, how do you feed it (meaning the mechanics)? It seems like would almost have to be in something like a lick tub.

It would probably sell like hot cakes at TSC in a lick tub.

 

[Mountaintown Creek Ranch]

 

[greybeard]

i wonder if it would make their poop smell 'nicer'?
Affect their milk?

 

[Ebenezer]

I would wonder about the aflatoxin level

 

[Mark Reynolds]

I would wonder about the aflatoxin level

I was wondering if someone would bring that up. Not normally enough peanuts or peanut butter to even be on the radar, but 500# makes it a real concern to be looked at. I haven't a clue to the answer, but know enough that I think I'd better ask the question if I were considering it.

 

[WFfarm]

As a free range lick in the pasture, I wonder if it would attract every squirrel, possum and raccoon in the county?

 

[Travlr]

I normally avoid Facebook like the plague, I only have an account to get on Marketplace from time to time. This morning I saw an ad for someone selling 500/lb barrels of Peanut Butter as a cattle supplement. I did not know this was a thing. I guess it does make sense though.

Does anyone here supplement their stock with Peanut Butter? If so, how do you feed it (meaning the mechanics)? It seems like would almost have to be in something like a lick tub.

Somebody buys me a 500# barrel of peanut butter and you better believe I'd gain weight fast.

 

[Travlr]

As a free range lick in the pasture, I wonder if it would attract every squirrel, possum and raccoon in the county?

And feral hogs?

 

[Caustic Burno]

And feral hogs?

Hogs are attracted to the cattle tubs now. They don’t cull anything.

 

[branxchar&charx]

Hogs are attracted to the cattle tubs now. They don't cull anything.

You would hope not but yep they are. They did a number to this one, if you can see it. No peanut butter in it that im aware of tho.heh

 

[Butterbean_Farms]

As a free range lick in the pasture, I wonder if it would attract every squirrel, possum and raccoon in the county?

Absolutely. It isn't uncommon for people to use peanut butter as deer bait, and from what I have seen the coons usually eat it quicker than the deer.

 

[Caustic Burno]

You would hope not but yep they are. They did a number to this one, if you can see it. No peanut butter in it that im aware of tho.heh
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They will tear a tub up!
If they smell a food source you have a problem.
Their sense of smell puts a deer to shame!
They can smell five to seven miles.

https://overton.tamu.edu/files/2013/02/FAQs-Feral-Hog-Billy.pdf