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What’s everyone using for minerals.
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<blockquote data-quote="Nkline" data-source="post: 1727890" data-attributes="member: 41001"><p>So the mineral is 10% phosphorus as per label. We know monocalcium phosphate is 21% phosphorus and the only ingredient that contains much phosphorus except for ddgs that only contains around 0.8%. So we take 10% divided by 21% and end up with 47.6%. Monocalcium phosphate is also around 16% calcium so 47% x 16% = ~7.5% is its calcium contribution. So we need 2.5% more calcium to get to the minerals 10% calcium, and our only other ingredient with significant calcium is calcium carbonate which is around 38% calcium so we take 2.5% divided by 38% and get 6.6% calcium carbonate (a little different than what I said, but I figured in more phosphorus from ddgs above) but for the sake of clarity this is how you go about figuring out percentages of ingredients. After I did all the mineral ingredients I could then assume the ddgs was the remainder.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nkline, post: 1727890, member: 41001"] So the mineral is 10% phosphorus as per label. We know monocalcium phosphate is 21% phosphorus and the only ingredient that contains much phosphorus except for ddgs that only contains around 0.8%. So we take 10% divided by 21% and end up with 47.6%. Monocalcium phosphate is also around 16% calcium so 47% x 16% = ~7.5% is its calcium contribution. So we need 2.5% more calcium to get to the minerals 10% calcium, and our only other ingredient with significant calcium is calcium carbonate which is around 38% calcium so we take 2.5% divided by 38% and get 6.6% calcium carbonate (a little different than what I said, but I figured in more phosphorus from ddgs above) but for the sake of clarity this is how you go about figuring out percentages of ingredients. After I did all the mineral ingredients I could then assume the ddgs was the remainder. [/QUOTE]
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