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| To keep cattle alive? Unless your area has a significant mineral deficiency or over abundance of a certain mineral your cows shouldn't just go feet up.
My old man pulled that crap with me when I was just starting too, anything that got sick or died was from a decision I made that wasn't what he'd have done. My cure for that was having the deceased posted after asking his opinion on why they died. Only takes a couple times of being wrong in front of a vet to fix.
Have used tubs and loose mineral throughout the years in different situations. The loose mineral has been cheaper by far, roughly $26/pair/year. While the tubs are nicer to use in a fall/open winter situation where a guy doesn't have time to feed cubes everyday to meet protein needs. As far as the mineral package in tubs, the only thing I've seen missing in some is salt. Other than that they do the same job as loose mineral.
Don't beat yourself up too much, stuff happens when you own livestock. | |
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Who here relies only on lick tubs for mineral?
