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I wish they would hold your article at the top for Knowledge as they have some of the others articles. This was a special read for me. New people coming by need to see that and it totally changes my thinking now as I never knew any of this. Shows that I can still learn new things like an old...

Farmerjan, That is an excellent article. You did marvelous!! Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us as I greatly enjoyed reading it. It took you a long time to get that all down, and it is very important knowledge for all of us to know. I had to chop your article...

Feeding some 16% dairy ration with Rumensin, not so heavy, with Bermuda round bales, and Tennessee Farmers Co-op Ultimate Mineral #96613 Weaned cattle on pasture. Two very young calves weaned, that I keep the Dairy ration in front of at all times.

My pastures are very heavy in white clover. I have been grazing this way for a very long time. I put the clover in the pasture and it has been there almost 20 years. Can't remember the exact date, but the grass and clover was planted before cows were brought in. This is my recipe...

TN Farmers Co-op Ultimate Mineral. They have it with Rumensin too. It has other trace minerals in this mineral, but don't list it on this short ingredient list, such as cobalt, It is made with Organic- Iodine, Cobalt, Copper, Zinc and trace minerals as in Amino Acid Complex minerals listed...

@Little Joe, You almost have the perfect mineral if they would kick that selenium up higher. You have a higher Calcium content which I wish Co-op would kick up. I want that 30 ppm selenium as that is a biggie in breeding and calving. If your soil is low the lack of selenium can cause the...

I will place my hay rings in areas depending on what is happening with my pasture. If I have an area in the pasture that the soil needs building up, I will place my hay rings there. Then as the cattle waste some of the hay and pack it with manure and urine, I will begin to move the rings...

My method of feeding hay is when the hay ring goes empty, another bale is put in its place. If I see that the ring will go empty and I will not be able to get to it for a long while, I will put another bale on top of what is there. I let them make the call when they need forage.

I feed Co-op minerals too. Ultimate Minerals # 96660 almost has it down but we all can find areas we want to add more to it.

This is a great article about Magnesium from the Dairy side of things. I like to read Dairy articles because they seem to dig deeper as Milk cows are more susceptible to problems when their nutrients are off. So they micromanage them. So this is a good read... Short, but good. Tells you...

Ksmitt454, No matter how much you think some of us know, all of us can always learn something new. I always knew that Chelated Minerals were the best you could get, but I was not exactly sure what the reason for that was, and you explained it. So thank you. Minerals can make or break us or...

Quick and sloppy; We use Z Tags. 217 means second heifer born in year 2017. Lucy is her name Atlas is her sire, and 313 is her mother. I keep a notebook on all the cows for details.

Allenw, bingo!

Just saw where someone wrote you have 60 cows. It takes money to feed 60 cows. That pasture is not maintaining them. Look how low it is and they started the winter off like that. You cannot start the winter off with malnourished cows. The man down the road does the same thing. He cuts...

Junk hay with no protein and not enough feed. You may be shy a sack or two or three of range cubes daily. Seeing how low your pasture is, down to dirt, these cattle are hungry. When the cold weather hits, she is going to be in a world of hurt.

It is good that we all have different opinions, otherwise, how would we stretch our thinking out? Close mindedness is a handicap. When someone disagrees or sees it differently, it does not make it wrong at all. Often people make me see something a way I did not think before. This is good.

Good mineral is not cheap. My mineral runs close to the same price, but I think a few dollars less. But for some reason I cannot recall what I paid a bag for it. For some reason now..... I cannot recall a lot of things....I don't think it is going to get any better.

I am so sorry to hear that about Slick as I know those around him must miss him a lot. He is a good man. But as I have grown older, I see that we pass on, from this life to the next phase. When we lose a friend or a loved one, they are not in our past, but in our future. We lose this...

elkwc, I agree on the mineral feeder deal. Really, the best feeder was the one that sat on the ground with the big flat piece of rubber that the older cows would flip up and get mineral out of. But that was what I called an "adult" feeder. Ha-ha!! Not for kids. I wanted my calves to have...

elkwc, I agree that Vitaferm is a better mineral than I have seen in so many. I have read so many bags and thought, everything is so below par, why not go ahead and put in the bag what the cattle need!! But so many give a teaspoon when a Tablespoon is needed. I will tell you that at times I...