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<blockquote data-quote="TexasBred" data-source="post: 1018854" data-attributes="member: 6897"><p>Regardless of the salt in the mineral or totally separate from the mineral, a well formulated mineral should have enough "attractants" in it to encourage consumption at the recommended rate. Many companies will use cottonseed meal, DDG, dried molasses and even some wet molasses to make it more palatable so the cattle will consume it. Other than calcium and phosphorus the other minerals are included in very small amounts and are highly concentrated so you won't often have deficiencies in those unless there are outside factors that affect the utilization of the trace minerals. If you're not getting any real mineral consumption 5-6 lbs. of cottonseed meal to a bag of it and mix it well. Should help some on intake.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TexasBred, post: 1018854, member: 6897"] Regardless of the salt in the mineral or totally separate from the mineral, a well formulated mineral should have enough "attractants" in it to encourage consumption at the recommended rate. Many companies will use cottonseed meal, DDG, dried molasses and even some wet molasses to make it more palatable so the cattle will consume it. Other than calcium and phosphorus the other minerals are included in very small amounts and are highly concentrated so you won't often have deficiencies in those unless there are outside factors that affect the utilization of the trace minerals. If you're not getting any real mineral consumption 5-6 lbs. of cottonseed meal to a bag of it and mix it well. Should help some on intake. [/QUOTE]
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