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Mad Cow Disease / Mad Deer Disease
Lotus wrote in message ... I can't find a SINGLE reference to the use of mineralised FEED blocks in the UK. now that's tough because I've seen them stacked up to the roof in many feed merchants. Someone was thoughtful enough to find a supplier of mineralised supplementary feed licks for cattle http://www.ccfarmers.co.uk/feed.asp , but that's still a lick. I see Dry Cow Feed Blocks on the same page, but are they blocks of mineralised feed like Michael showed us ; http://www.martindalefeed.com/Products/BLOCKS/3307.htm and are these given to suckler herds in the UK? some suckler cows in the UK will have access to some thing similar. (to save people wasting time going on line, it is a US firm producing for their market. The ingredients are INGREDIENTS Defluorinated phosphate, salt, grain products, cane molasses, magnesium oxide, vegetable oil, ferrous oxide, manganese sulfate, calcium carbonate, zinc sulfate, sodium selenite, ferrous sulfate, potassium chloride, ethylenediamine dihydriodide, cobalt carbonate) I got a thing though the post this morning from Pye farm feeds selling something similar, but they call theirs buckets. This is because they pour the mix into plastic bucket rather than a mould. It means you can use a higher proportion of molasses. These products are basically grain and molasses based, although some will contain a protein source as well. Depending on what the block is wanted for it will contain more or less of various minerals. Those for out wintering beef cows might well contain more calcium, those fed at calving could well contain more magnesium. Calcium:Phosphorus ration will vary as well. As I said some beef cows in the UK will have access to that sort of thing, others might get a compound feed instead, others a straight such as maizs gluten, others might get nothing but silage or hay. It will depend entirely on how the animal is wintered, the sort of condition it was in prior to housing (or prior to commencing feeding). Blocks is just one more possibility in the ration. I know people who have used them for rearing dairy heifers, and there are blocks available formulated for dry cows, or even for use in the milking parlour when animals are on complete diet regimes. -- Jim Webster "The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind" 'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami' |
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