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Southern MB | Yep I agree too not using Rumensin 90 on farm unless you have a good dry grain or protein ingredient you can evenly mix it with. You want to bulk it up (dilute Rumensin) into a >1lb feeding rate. Now you have made a supplement which would then be blended with your grains or TMR before feeding. The more you can spread out the Rumensin evenly for each mouth full the better.
Example Only:
Monensin at 10mg/lb of total dry matter feed intake. (Please Refer to Rumensin 90 Label for Directions)
Backgrounding 550lb beef steer eats approx 16lb total dry matter per day.
** 0.8 grams of Rumensin 90/head/day ** Cost is 3.2 cents/head/day
100 head would use 80 grams Rumensin 90 per day
As a visual illustration I took a picture of what Rumensin 90 might look like. There is 0.8 grams in the tablespoon and 79 grams in the bowl. As you can see if you tossed Rumensin 90 into a TMR that's higher in moisture (corn silage etc) the product would cling to the moist feed and create hot spots throughout the mix. If the TMR was 50% moisture then the 80 grams would go into 3200lb of feed.
Rumensin when added into a pelleted supplement and fed at >1lb feeding rate can easily be mixed with other on-farm ingredients. Then when you have fed the blend you can see the pellet giving you confidence your getting the Rumensin into the animal.
Rumensin is a great product when used correctly.
Edited by westernfs 11/17/2015 00:01
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