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I noticed the last few days my mineral feeder was staying awful full. Decided I better look and some critter had messed in it.
I guess a cat. Why on earth would it have to choose my feeder? I have 120 acres and my father in law has 350 acres to poop all over, but it has to ruin expensive ctc hi mag minerals....

I got another feeder and hung it up higher off the ground and filled it up. I am wondering how much of a back set it will be to my cattle not having had high mag minerals for several days this time of year. I am not sure how long they did without.

If they mess in it, it doesn't seem to bother them too much, but a coon or something really affects their appetite.

A couple months ago I was feeding some calves in a barn stall I have fixed up with a creep gate and one day they wouldn't touch the feed in one of the feeders, they just sniffed and backed up. I think something peed in it because I couldn't see anything. I washed it out and it has been fine since.
 
A couple of days won;t hurt anything if they have been eating it up to now and started again after cleaning
 
last year I had a coon (coons) tear open a new bag of mineral eat a bunch and defecated all over it and looked like they had puked and peed on it too! Got out the golden malren and coke for em.
 
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A couple of days won;t hurt anything if they have been eating it up to now and started again after cleaning
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For most minerals I'd agree but I know calving dairy cows in spring I could be looking at dead cows if they missed their daily dose of magnesium. Don't you beef cow farmers have the easy life...
 
regolith":21s3wptl said:
A couple of days won;t hurt anything if they have been eating it up to now and started again after cleaning
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For most minerals I'd agree but I know calving dairy cows in spring I could be looking at dead cows if they missed their daily dose of magnesium. Don't you beef cow farmers have the easy life...
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I think it is more the area that you farm Regolith, as dairy cows in my area would survive a day or two without any problems without mag from added minerals in their diet.
 
The feeder is one of Dun's hanging barrel feeders. Evidently I failed to install the coon exclusion module.

Personally I don't think I could utilize a facility that was swinging back and forth :?

The Golden Malrin is tempting, I have some, I just don't like poisoning anything except mice and flys. Too afraid the wrong thing will get ahold of it.

My wife used to have a golden retreiver that would eat anything, he ate a hole package of mouse poison, the vet said to give him a whole bottle of peroxide and he would be fine. That poor dog puked and puked and puked. But he was ok.
 

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