Mix 30

[bluegoose 1]

I saw the topic about Mix 30 I felt it was a commerical by Mix 30. I would like to hear ranchers who really use it. Thanks for any info

Bluegoose 1

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

Welcome to ranchers bluegoose ....where bouts in Texas?

 

[cowman66]

i personally use it as well as am a dealer. I think it is a great product mostly due to its high fat content.

 

[bluegoose 1]

Thanks for the reply Jersy Lilly I live in Point TX I'm 7 miles from Emory TX Back to Mix 30 Is it self limiting I can buy it in Sulphur Springs TX for $1.17 a gallon Is this a good price Thanks for any help

Bluegoose 1

 

[Faster horses]

What little I know about it in this country is that you have to keep it agitated.
It is a source of energy which is important in the north more so than in Texas, I would think. I know people who feed it and like it but it does
take some management.

Good luck!

 

[Doug Thorson]

Price wise, I can't help much. I get mine for about $.93 a gallon, but I buy semi loads.

Product wise, I like it but I am a little limited on my expierience from a first hand basis. I fed some heifer calves with it a few years ago and decided that I wanted a tank setup, but it took a few years to get in position to afford it. I am on my first tankerload and can gaurentee that I will feed at least 2 more this year. If things go like they are looking like, I love it.

Our grass will starve a cow to death right now, but my cows are still grazing. My calves look real good right now, if they weigh like I think they are going to then we will see what happens in the spring with things like breedback etc, but right now it looks like a great product.

 

[jedstivers]

Thanks for the reply Jersy Lilly I live in Point TX I'm 7 miles from Emory TX Back to Mix 30 Is it self limiting I can buy it in Sulphur Springs TX for $1.17 a gallon Is this a good price Thanks for any help

Bluegoose 1

That's $260 a ton an I was priced $175 but that was buying 50,000 lbs.

 

[Faster horses]

I'm curious. How much protein is there in Mix 30?

 

[Carter]

i use mix 30 i think the protein is 16% but not positive, my cows do good on it. They will eat a bunch at first but then they seem to level out. i put out a 100 gallon trough per 20 cows. it cost 208 a ton if you pick it up. we use 300 gallon totes here you can buy them on pallets for about $15 and they are easy to get in and out of your pickup.

 

[Faster horses]

16% on dry matter basis? I'm curious because in order to use that in the north country and they eat 2 lbs/day, figuring it at 16% protein as fed,
that only supplies .32 lbs of crude protein. That's far from enough protein
since a cow in the third trimester requires 2 lbs. crude protein. A friend of ours talks about feeding corn one year and the cows ate the corn and then
laid around and didn't go out to graze and lost weight. They didn't have the protein to stimulate the rumen. They never fed corn to grazing animals again.

There is a lot of moisture in Mix 30 and the protein needs figured
on a dry matter basis as moisture has no nutrition.

I'm just trying to figure out how this supplement works on grazing
animals. I know it is good energy, just not so sure about the protein
which is really important to breeding animals.

 

[Justin]

for those that use it, how much of Mix30 are you wanting the cows to eat per day and how much is it costing per cow, per day?

 

[gcreekrch]

I'm can get nearly 2 tons of 17% second cut alfalfa delivered here to the end of the world for about $20 more than 1 ton of mix 30 costs down there. I can't see that the labour per ton would cost a lot to get this kind of protein to a cow and not have to shell out a lot of dollars for water.

 

[Faster horses]

Gcreek--great point!!, Several years ago, Western Beef Producer compared the cost of supplementing cows. Alfalfa hay at $100/ton was by far the cheapest supplement available. Not at full feed but at supplemental amounts. Can't remember for sure, but I think it was ten lbs. And at that time the other supplements were considerable cheaper than they are today. Hard to beat alfalfa hay as a supplement. You get some dry matter too, which is important. It's a requirement of cattle and they do strange things when their dry matter requirement isn't met.

 

[porter]

How does it handle in the winter? Does it get thicker from the cold?

 

[jodywy]

my cows get what the meadow grows for hay, meadow fox tail , canary grass, some red top, alsike and red clovers. So the old girls get a bale of alfalfa everyday to go along.