Mineral Best Before Date

Hi all, looking for your views on this. I have a few bags of ewe minerals from last years lambing that have a before date of July 2017, 6 months after manufacture. Am I short changing the ewes feeding these minerals? Do they degrade that quickly?

Thanks
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
They put best before dates on water, JFDI, don't buy into their sales technique like they want you to.

A big water bottler is a customer of mine for his dairy feed, anything over 3months old has to be poured away, bottles melted and made again and re filled. This is all “security” incase there’s a water shortage.
 

Clinwil

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Location
Herefordshire
I would agree with TT the only raw material with a best before date would be the vitamins, and they usually come with a 2 year date on them. So after the 6 or 12 months date on the bag they will degrade but potentially over another 12 months. Feeding free access could be a problem as some times the flavouring "goes off" and it makes it less palatable to the stock.
 

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