Faster horses said:
You are a good rep for your company and care about
your customers, I can tell.
I mostly posted that so producers would realize they can't buy
a supplement and have it work, without some type of forage.
I'm amazed at the people who don't seem to realize this.
I deleted my post, because I didn't want you to think I was
calling you out, specifically. I was too late.......but that's okay,
your explanation was right on, and I hope helpful to some.
Thanks.
Exactly! Loomix guy knows his stuff and has been around. I've experimented with several things, have delivered some liq feed supplement----and some people you gotta pound it into their heads---It's a supplement! Ya' still gotta have the feed! You get one meathead who's got his place with wires around it like a concentration camp and fields looking like the surface of the moon, sitting in the coffee shop saying "well, i tried that liquid feed---what a ripoff!" and it'll set you back yrs---
The whole idea is to meet cows nutritional
[email protected] lowest possible cost. County agent probably has a program where you can plug in available feeds, feed value of each, costs, current requirements, etc. And can juggle amounts of each around. For example: a little hi protein cake might meet their protein requirments cheaper than more hay---as long as you got adequate other sources of grazing, roughage. "Pearson's Square" is one deal for doing this.
If the moorman's roughage buster has complete mineral package in it and does what they say it does, it might be a good deal. I figure mineral is something you can't shop for on price alone, and good mineral is gonna cost you around $1000 anyhow.
One last per peeve: When looking at a guy's cows and hearing his health problems and asking him "Do you feed mineral?" And he says "You bet! I feed mineral salt" I have to restrain myself from beating my--or his--haid into the closest tree.