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Sudden Death of Sucklers in This Weather.
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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 7816833" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>I don't know anything about blocks but I've never had much faith in licks or buckets or the like. I've heard 'agronomists' try to say that you should use particular fertilisers on grass to supplement animals but I've known this go wrong in a big way once or twice. I used to sell specially formulated minerals in bagged form for people to add to their TMR or else added minerals to blends/compounds for people to feed to animals. I don't know the entirety of the science behind mineral supplementation but I do know some animals will stand and lick at something all day whilst others won't touch it. The only way to know each animal is getting their daily dose is to feed is as a concentrate or put it on their forage or maybe bolus them. It's really not the sort of thing worth fudging with as one dead beast is hundreds lost which will soon pay for a pallet of minerals.</p><p></p><p>I used to have this conversation with farmers about their dry cows. The average herd only has a few dozen of them at any one time. Why fudge about with it when you can just feed the required mineral dose daily in a handy format. There isn't any saving.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 7816833, member: 54866"] I don't know anything about blocks but I've never had much faith in licks or buckets or the like. I've heard 'agronomists' try to say that you should use particular fertilisers on grass to supplement animals but I've known this go wrong in a big way once or twice. I used to sell specially formulated minerals in bagged form for people to add to their TMR or else added minerals to blends/compounds for people to feed to animals. I don't know the entirety of the science behind mineral supplementation but I do know some animals will stand and lick at something all day whilst others won't touch it. The only way to know each animal is getting their daily dose is to feed is as a concentrate or put it on their forage or maybe bolus them. It's really not the sort of thing worth fudging with as one dead beast is hundreds lost which will soon pay for a pallet of minerals. I used to have this conversation with farmers about their dry cows. The average herd only has a few dozen of them at any one time. Why fudge about with it when you can just feed the required mineral dose daily in a handy format. There isn't any saving. [/QUOTE]
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