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<blockquote data-quote="Amo" data-source="post: 1386978" data-attributes="member: 14857"><p>You don't need to get advice from company "X" nutritionalist. It is handy though.</p><p></p><p>It not the question if its in there or not, but is it available. Chelated were mentioned. They are the most available of the lessor minerals. Calcium, phosphorus, etc don't come that way. Oxides are the least available. Usually your cheaper products. </p><p></p><p>I live I an area blessed with high levels of mineral in our grass/water. I know a lot of good operators that use a mineral with a lot of oxides. Seams tonwork for them. I highly doubt its under $15 a bag/$600 a ton. What I use this time of year when I contracted was $680 a ton. The stuff I'll switch to shortly for precalving through first cycle is around $750. Its not chelated, but no oxides either.</p><p></p><p>I had an extension agent tell me mineral is like insurance. If you can check often, can pasture doctor, and aren't short on anything naturally you can use a cheaper mineral.....insurance with a high deductible. Made sense to me so I tried what his recommended mix was for this area after hundreds of grass & water samples from 8 counties. It had a little phos & zinc. A few other things, but the formulation was 68% salt. That might of hurt intakes, idk. Anyway I tried it as phos took a major jump that year. Preg check & weaning weight was fine. I had the worst case of foot rot & pink eye I've ever had. Treated proabaly 75% for one or the other. I can't rope. It'd always be when I needed to do other things. Was it cheaper to treat with antibiotics instead of buying better mineral probably. I'm sure my example is an oddity. It did convience me to buy a good mineral so I dont have problems. I'd rather have lower deductible with better coverage.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Amo, post: 1386978, member: 14857"] You don't need to get advice from company "X" nutritionalist. It is handy though. It not the question if its in there or not, but is it available. Chelated were mentioned. They are the most available of the lessor minerals. Calcium, phosphorus, etc don't come that way. Oxides are the least available. Usually your cheaper products. I live I an area blessed with high levels of mineral in our grass/water. I know a lot of good operators that use a mineral with a lot of oxides. Seams tonwork for them. I highly doubt its under $15 a bag/$600 a ton. What I use this time of year when I contracted was $680 a ton. The stuff I'll switch to shortly for precalving through first cycle is around $750. Its not chelated, but no oxides either. I had an extension agent tell me mineral is like insurance. If you can check often, can pasture doctor, and aren't short on anything naturally you can use a cheaper mineral.....insurance with a high deductible. Made sense to me so I tried what his recommended mix was for this area after hundreds of grass & water samples from 8 counties. It had a little phos & zinc. A few other things, but the formulation was 68% salt. That might of hurt intakes, idk. Anyway I tried it as phos took a major jump that year. Preg check & weaning weight was fine. I had the worst case of foot rot & pink eye I've ever had. Treated proabaly 75% for one or the other. I can't rope. It'd always be when I needed to do other things. Was it cheaper to treat with antibiotics instead of buying better mineral probably. I'm sure my example is an oddity. It did convience me to buy a good mineral so I dont have problems. I'd rather have lower deductible with better coverage. [/QUOTE]
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