Tyler love seeing your experiments regarding feed. Sure it will take a minute to dial in but as you said knowledge of what's in the feed and cost. Peace of mind and money. Who doesn't want that? Keep it up brother😀
The great thing about mixing your own is you can add what you think is necessary. As a young boy(45 years ago) my dad would mix 1/3 bone meal, 1/3 lime (main ingredient in Portland cement) and 1/3 rock salt for our cows. Its what they always did going back over 100 years.
Weasel here from down in the hollers of Kentucky. It’s nice to watch your videos on experimental farming techniques. Never know how things will turnout if you don’t try. Just like being on an online training lab. It’s very educational and interesting. Oh, just because I don’t comment very often doesn’t mean I’m not watching.
Good morning,I see you are taking care of what you have to do. Your lovely family and big beautiful ranch. All those pretty and healthy animals that you have. I love your videos.
If you get into making these regularly maybe an old electric cement mix. Just wash it up so the salt doesn’t rot the metal away. Great video. I had no idea cement was used in commercial tubs. I always thought they were cured under pressure. No basis for the pressure idea just seemed logical.
Brewer's yeast...soybean meal! Go to a farm auction at some point, pick up a cheap, but working used cement mixer... you can also buy dried molasses 😉 and your minerals...
Use regular salt not trace mineral. Mix 2:1 with soybean meal. And if you’re going to mix wind and rain mineral with it you need to mix more soybean meal to allow for the salt that in it. Because wind and rain is a complete mix. And I use a 3 compartment mineral feeder with rubber top so it can be out in the field also built a 2x4 sled to drag it around
I just wanted to add that i greatly admire your thought pattern for this. Also wanted to ask if adding 2-4 lbs of charcoal would be a help to them as it helps to deal with tummy upsets and could help prevent bloat?
👍 hope you do a follow up on this one...never thought of making my own tubs may check into this 😉 right at $109 per tub here , several people have mentioned cement mixer ..might get cha a paint mixer for a 5 gal. bucket from your home depot and use your cordless drill, come to think of it I believe the mixer I got was in the cement section for mixing mortar 🤔
I recall hearing some news 45+ years ago about cows grazing a field down wind from a cement plant. The pasture was far from grey but obviously the cows were getting at least trace amounts of cement in their food and they put on weight in a hurry. At 25% salt I'm betting salt blocks will last longer.
How will you know if this mix is successful? By how much is consumed? I had no idea you needed to supplement protein for the cows on the winter pasture. Very interesting. I learn something new in every one of your videos.
I wonder if the Portland Cement serves to hold the protein supplement in the digestive system longer, thus enhancing absorption and use of nutrients by the body. Excellent videos!
In your video of the cow that died, you took it to your local vet school. They might help you come up with a formula or ideas. But tp me looks like your on the right track. I dont know of its done out there, but around. Here guys use creep feed for calves which is basically groumd corn and salt. Im interested to ser your results
I’ve visited some old timer in Florida years ago and he was using cottonseed halls mixed with salt to limit intake said it worked great I myself I fooled around buying protein tubs years ago I think they’re just don’t pan out economically at all cattle markets are so bad right now that in order to make money with cattle they just got a live off what you got
Tyler ,I would think the commercial mineral already has enough salt to limit the consumption I do know that when you start a mineral program cattle that are in need will hit it hard and level off as the get there requirements so check daily intake ,you might be shorting them on the trace minerals I like learning with you
What you're doing is what people who manage their deer herds (myself included) have been doing for years. We take bags of appropriate dry materials and mix them then distribute the mix at multiple locations where deer will be safe to frequent to get it. It goes straight onto the ground, then raked into the top of the soil. Once the visible ingredients are gone (and rain is actually desired), the deer will come back to that spot for YEARS to keep licking the dirt to get the minerals out of it. They will literally eat a hole in the ground. Many people pour their mix onto stumps to get the deer to basically eat the stumps down to the ground to get the mineral. Even if you buy a deer mineral block, part of it will melt into the ground and do the same thing. I put the minerals in the same spots once a year (in late Feb). Also, part of the reason for a binder is to keep the mixed minerals distributed evenly. If not, the lighter, fluffier contents will stay at the top and the salt will go to the bottom eventually, then they will eat all the other stuff rapidly (especially if you have molasses in it) and the salt won't be an effective deterrent.
I. Mix a 100 pound cotton seed mill and a 100 pound soybean mill and a 100 pound of wind & rain minerals and a 100 pound salt , and then I put it in a feed tray 20 foot long that the cow's and calfs can get all on both sides of the way a round the feed tray , that will feed 30 head of cow's and calfs a 7 to 10 days , my feed tray is 20 foot long and 2 foot wide and is 18 inches deep and it has a roof on the top keep it dry from the rain .
Farmer Tyler Ranch yeah can’t complain. I just like making things myself for the heck of it. Just had to cost efficient as well. Hope it works out and saves you some money
Here i australia i buy the hard mineral block its meant to be a lick block but ive caught the cows chewing on it instead usually one block between nine cows lasts about just over a month
@@farmertylerranch4399 im fairly safe at the moment with fires but their everywhere this summer has been bad for fires around the country sadly theirs been quite a few that have been deliberately lit
Portland cement , isn't food , I would try doing something like your doing . Is the goal to have a hard protein salt lick type product , of course cheap .
I was watching and it was funny to see the ear tags 44 45 , 45 46, how many cows about 20 right how about beets for the sugar for sweetness ?........have a great weekend stay safe, hugs
I make my own also! Another way to mix bulk like your doing that I’ve found to be quicker and less work. Sweep your concrete floor and next time pour your ingredients out in long narrow piles side by side as even as possible. Then using a scoop or tool mix them back in forth weaving, stirring and sweeping the ingredients until you’ve reached the desired mix. Sweep into a pile and fill your tubs. Great video brother
Wow, our 200 lb 24% protein tubs are $54. Maybe in Texas our material would be less expensive than Cali. But you did give me lots to think about with this project.
Indeed the protein tubs are not cheap. We've used them in the past. Now we use sweet elite, alfalfa pellets and beet pulp(re-hydrated). This is another one of those issues you need to consider in the quest to widen the ole profit margin huh. Your topics always give me food for thought in that quest and makes me look at how I operate. Have you ever done a protein analysis of your hay?
I'm thinking about mixing 50% soybean meal and 50% corn to feed the deer near my house. I'm next to a local state park so there is a lot of dear but they're not getting enough protein and are rather small. Im assuming when a 50lb bag of soybean meal says 46% or 47.5% thats referring to the amount of protein. If corn is 8% protein per 50lb and soybean meal is 46% protein per 50lb then that means out of 100lbs 27lbs should be protein.
What did you find to be your final optimum mix? And what type of daily intakes did you achieve? In East Africa where my spouse is from, molasses cement block mixtures are made with 10% urea. It's made as a cement block to prevent over consumption of urea, which has been recommended to be less than 135 g per day for dairy cows to prevent dry matter intake depression.
It looks hard to mix. It might be easier if you add the first two and mix then add the next and mix again. That way it is easier to get to the bottom. I saw you digging around pretty hard.
Morning Tyler Your 🐄 very smart they know their know molasses mix / that food they really love that sweet tasty of Molasses. Thanks for sharing Enjoy your day
I often wonder how you run a ranch all by yourself.........well now I know, all the subscribers in your comments give you all the advice, tips & tricks you’ll ever need. lol
whats the deal with the yamaha-ha-ha-. hey suzi's first!! or even better my fav HONDA!! good economic thinking!! and you have better control of quality in minerals.greg judy has a smorgessboard type feeder. 10-12 diff boxes on a moveable dispenser.. did you put new tires on front of the 4 wheeler??good vid..
I think my wife has been slipping a little bitter ingredient into my whiskey lately. It has slowly evolved into a slightly different taste and I seem to be drinking just a tad less
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Tyler love seeing your experiments regarding feed. Sure it will take a minute to dial in but as you said knowledge of what's in the feed and cost. Peace of mind and money. Who doesn't want that? Keep it up brother😀
Great video Tyler makeing your own supplement
The great thing about mixing your own is you can add what you think is necessary. As a young boy(45 years ago) my dad would mix 1/3 bone meal, 1/3 lime (main ingredient in Portland cement) and 1/3 rock salt for our cows. Its what they always did going back over 100 years.
Weasel here from down in the hollers of Kentucky. It’s nice to watch your videos on experimental farming techniques. Never know how things will turnout if you don’t try. Just like being on an online training lab. It’s very educational and interesting. Oh, just because I don’t comment very often doesn’t mean I’m not watching.
R U closer 2 the Hatfields or the McCoy's? 😊
Good morning,I see you are taking care of what you have to do. Your lovely family and big beautiful ranch. All those pretty and healthy animals that you have. I love your videos.
Thanks Wykeisha! You’re always so positive!
Great job to the Farmer Tyler Ranch 😊 , all that great food you are feeding your animals. Happy New year.
You could use an old cement mixer to mix and speed up your mixing time for multiple tubs , just a thought to save you time .
Seen the title, thought you were starting a new exercise and diet routine video, then realized you were taking care of the cows. :)
Good one Brad!
i thought he was making for him too lol
Haha you should have known!!
I thought the VERY SAME THING! LOL!!!
Always like watching your videos, also like when your wife is in them as well.
If you get into making these regularly maybe an old electric cement mix. Just wash it up so the salt doesn’t rot the metal away. Great video. I had no idea cement was used in commercial tubs. I always thought they were cured under pressure. No basis for the pressure idea just seemed logical.
Cool idea! You know what you need is a cement mixer to mix your batches. That way you would have a thorough mix. Just a thought. Thanks for sharing.
Brewer's yeast...soybean meal!
Go to a farm auction at some point, pick up a cheap, but working used cement mixer... you can also buy dried molasses 😉 and your minerals...
Use regular salt not trace mineral. Mix 2:1 with soybean meal. And if you’re going to mix wind and rain mineral with it you need to mix more soybean meal to allow for the salt that in it. Because wind and rain is a complete mix. And I use a 3 compartment mineral feeder with rubber top so it can be out in the field also built a 2x4 sled to drag it around
I just wanted to add that i greatly admire your thought pattern for this. Also wanted to ask if adding 2-4 lbs of charcoal would be a help to them as it helps to deal with tummy upsets and could help prevent bloat?
What does the charcoal do to the mix of feed ?
👍 hope you do a follow up on this one...never thought of making my own tubs may check into this 😉 right at $109 per tub here , several people have mentioned cement mixer ..might get cha a paint mixer for a 5 gal. bucket from your home depot and use your cordless drill, come to think of it I believe the mixer I got was in the cement section for mixing mortar 🤔
The cows seem very interested in that mineral mixture!
I have used a clean cement mixer to mix compost and dry feeds. It does a great job. Mine is a cheap 120 volt mixer from Harbor Freight.
F.S.U you got the right idea. I'm down here in Wakulla
I recall hearing some news 45+ years ago about cows grazing a field down wind from a cement plant. The pasture was far from grey but obviously the cows were getting at least trace amounts of cement in their food and they put on weight in a hurry. At 25% salt I'm betting salt blocks will last longer.
Easy to put on weight when you're eating concrete 🤣
How will you know if this mix is successful? By how much is consumed? I had no idea you needed to supplement protein for the cows on the winter pasture. Very interesting. I learn something new in every one of your videos.
I wonder if the Portland Cement serves to hold the protein supplement in the digestive system longer, thus enhancing absorption and use of nutrients by the body. Excellent videos!
In your video of the cow that died, you took it to your local vet school. They might help you come up with a formula or ideas. But tp me looks like your on the right track. I dont know of its done out there, but around. Here guys use creep feed for calves which is basically groumd corn and salt. Im interested to ser your results
kory league, yes good idea. Or maybe the UC Davis Ag Extension office has a PDF already made up.
Not a bad idea Kory thanks!
I think the salt will make them just drink more water
Looks promising! Have a great weekend!💕
I’ve visited some old timer in Florida years ago and he was using cottonseed halls mixed with salt to limit intake said it worked great I myself I fooled around buying protein tubs years ago I think they’re just don’t pan out economically at all cattle markets are so bad right now that in order to make money with cattle they just got a live off what you got
Get yourself a cheap concrete mixer from Harbor freight to mix your supplement in and you'll get a more consistent mix!
Should be interesting to see how this works out with the cows. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.
Tyler ,I would think the commercial mineral already has enough salt to limit the consumption I do know that when you start a mineral program cattle that are in need will hit it hard and level off as the get there requirements so check daily intake ,you might be shorting them on the trace minerals I like learning with you
Thought you were making yourself a protein shake
This is an interesting experiment. Can't wait to see the results.
What you're doing is what people who manage their deer herds (myself included) have been doing for years. We take bags of appropriate dry materials and mix them then distribute the mix at multiple locations where deer will be safe to frequent to get it. It goes straight onto the ground, then raked into the top of the soil. Once the visible ingredients are gone (and rain is actually desired), the deer will come back to that spot for YEARS to keep licking the dirt to get the minerals out of it. They will literally eat a hole in the ground. Many people pour their mix onto stumps to get the deer to basically eat the stumps down to the ground to get the mineral. Even if you buy a deer mineral block, part of it will melt into the ground and do the same thing. I put the minerals in the same spots once a year (in late Feb). Also, part of the reason for a binder is to keep the mixed minerals distributed evenly. If not, the lighter, fluffier contents will stay at the top and the salt will go to the bottom eventually, then they will eat all the other stuff rapidly (especially if you have molasses in it) and the salt won't be an effective deterrent.
I. Mix a 100 pound cotton seed mill and a 100 pound soybean mill and a 100 pound of wind & rain minerals and a 100 pound salt , and then I put it in a feed tray 20 foot long that the cow's and calfs can get all on both sides of the way a round the feed tray , that will feed 30 head of cow's and calfs a 7 to 10 days , my feed tray is 20 foot long and 2 foot wide and is 18 inches deep and it has a roof on the top keep it dry from the rain .
Howdy 🤠, ❤️ the videos . Y’all are a really great teacher. Learning a lot. Keep cranking out the videos.
Good idea. I think the key will be keeping it dry as you said and making sure they can't tip it over.
Absolutely right
I’ll have to check my local pricing and see if it’s cheaper for me to make one of these tubs. In kentucky it’s $48 for 200 lb. tub.
California can be very expensive.
Depending on the quality you mite have a load shipped Hot Shot and sale what you don't use. LOL
That’s pretty cheap!
Farmer Tyler Ranch yeah can’t complain. I just like making things myself for the heck of it. Just had to cost efficient as well. Hope it works out and saves you some money
Wow, crazy how different prices are around the country. I'm in Michigan and I get my 200 lb 24% protein tubs for $50.
Here i australia i buy the hard mineral block its meant to be a lick block but ive caught the cows chewing on it instead usually one block between nine cows lasts about just over a month
Thanks Noel I sure hope those fires aren’t close to you!
@@farmertylerranch4399 im fairly safe at the moment with fires but their everywhere this summer has been bad for fires around the country sadly theirs been quite a few that have been deliberately lit
I couldn't imagine myself eating anything with 1 part salt 3 parts food
Example: one slice of bacon has about 135 parts food to 1 part salt
B glad U R not a cow!
@@ardurbin2 "Mooo"
Haha I could I love salt!
Cool. Thanks
Should I call the patent attorney 2 start work on the FTR Mineral Mix Master? Excellent explanation of the process 2 make a batch, now we wait. 👍👏😊
Haha don’t call just yet!
Portland cement , isn't food , I would try doing something like your doing . Is the goal to have a hard protein salt lick type product , of course cheap .
Here in Indiana 200# 24% protein tubes are 46.99 plus. 👍👍
Wow I wish we had that here!
A good mixer for under 200 dollars comes Harbor Freight also good for blending seed mixtures for pastures and concrete for fence and gate post
Tyler not to tell you what to do but to mix it all together dump it in a electric concrete mixer. Done this before works great
I was watching and it was funny to see the ear tags 44 45 , 45 46, how many cows about 20 right how about beets for the sugar for sweetness ?........have a great weekend stay safe, hugs
Yeah I was thinking maybe a bag of sweet feed if consumption is an issue. Thanks Iona!
I make my own also! Another way to mix bulk like your doing that I’ve found to be quicker and less work.
Sweep your concrete floor and next time pour your ingredients out in long narrow piles side by side as even as possible.
Then using a scoop or tool mix them back in forth weaving, stirring and sweeping the ingredients until you’ve reached the desired mix.
Sweep into a pile and fill your tubs.
Great video brother
Seems like some of them liked it from the beginning. Love it when they pushed each other out of the way!
Perhaps too much salt? Maybe 10 lbs less salt more mineral?
Too much salt could discourage them utilizing the benefits.
Yes I’ve got to find the balance
I’d they have trouble eating it later in try some dried molasses
Have you kept using this after two years?
It will be awesome if you find a good mix
Have you thought about maybe substituting molasses with maple syrup
Wow, our 200 lb 24% protein tubs are $54. Maybe in Texas our material would be less expensive than Cali. But you did give me lots to think about with this project.
Wow that’s pretty cheap. Not so around here!
About $60 in Ga
Is there an attachment to your drill that help mix, kinda like with paint
Great idea, the part I hate is the weight of those molasses tubes is just too heavy.
Love the Nerdy Farm Math. 😁
Haha!
Protein and salt blocks are cheaper
Find you an old concrete mixer the little portable one
Very interesting........... can you please do an update video?
Thanks again for the video...do you have a concrete mixer? Maybe that would mix the feed for you if you have to do a lot of it...
A 24% protein tub that’s 200lb is $37-$44 here
Wow cheap!
I think a drilled powered paint mixer may help
Wheat Bran: 20%
Corn: 40%
Soybean Meal: 20%
Canola Meal: 10%
Corn Gluten Meal 60: 10%
What do you say?
Indeed the protein tubs are not cheap. We've used them in the past. Now we use sweet elite, alfalfa pellets and beet pulp(re-hydrated). This is another one of those issues you need to consider in the quest to widen the ole profit margin huh. Your topics always give me food for thought in that quest and makes me look at how I operate. Have you ever done a protein analysis of your hay?
Thanks Bob. No I’ve never tested my hay. That type is supposed to be 10-12 percent but I would like to test it one day just to see
use a concrete mixer to mix the mineral/salt/meal
harbor freight concrete mixer......it's about all it's good for, but does work well.
Check out what Doug Pow is doing with biochar. I’m gonna try that in my mix
Will this replace the bags of minerals you put out last year to supplement their diets? I remember you had to add them for quite a while.
Yes this is basically that same mineral plus soybean meal and salt
Farmer Tyler Ranch, thank you for answering.
Hey there FTR curious if you have revisited making your own supplement more recently.
Go to bomgars and get a yellow tub for 40 dollars it's 20 percent
Don’t have that in my area
@@farmertylerranch4399Curious if y'all have a Tractor Supply?
I'm thinking about mixing 50% soybean meal and 50% corn to feed the deer near my house. I'm next to a local state park so there is a lot of dear but they're not getting enough protein and are rather small. Im assuming when a 50lb bag of soybean meal says 46% or 47.5% thats referring to the amount of protein. If corn is 8% protein per 50lb and soybean meal is 46% protein per 50lb then that means out of 100lbs 27lbs should be protein.
Paint mixer on a cordless drill!
Can you add molasses and salt at the time in one mix ?
use a small cement mixer.
Good farming
What did you find to be your final optimum mix? And what type of daily intakes did you achieve? In East Africa where my spouse is from, molasses cement block mixtures are made with 10% urea. It's made as a cement block to prevent over consumption of urea, which has been recommended to be less than 135 g per day for dairy cows to prevent dry matter intake depression.
Is there a follow up video to this one?
The idea of using salt to keep them from being pigs is a good idea.
How long will this last
It looks hard to mix. It might be easier if you add the first two and mix then add the next and mix again. That way it is easier to get to the bottom. I saw you digging around pretty hard.
Where is the best place to buy the supplies online?
The very idea of putting cement in cattle feed is unsettling to me. Salt is a much better idea, IMO.
Have you ever seen takota coen’s channel? He uses duckweed for protein and it works really well.
No I haven’t I’ll have to give it a look
How’d this mix turn out?
Also tell us how to make the formula
Morning Tyler
Your 🐄 very smart they know their know molasses mix / that food they really love that sweet tasty of Molasses. Thanks for sharing
Enjoy your day
Mine eat a $100 tub in 4 days. I would like to make my own too!
I often wonder how you run a ranch all by yourself.........well now I know, all the subscribers in your comments give you all the advice, tips & tricks you’ll ever need. lol
whats the deal with the yamaha-ha-ha-. hey suzi's first!! or even better my fav HONDA!! good economic thinking!! and you have better control of quality in minerals.greg judy has a smorgessboard type feeder. 10-12 diff boxes on a moveable dispenser.. did you put new tires on front of the 4 wheeler??good vid..
Thanks Mike yeah those are all my toys! Yes I got new tires on the front of the Honda so I’m really throwing mud now!
I know a better way you can mix all of that stuff together use a cement mixer it won't take so long
Will it work for deer
make sure you patent it lol kinda mixed on this video boringggg or not lol just not sure hugssss from Ontario Canada
Haha!
I know a better way you can mix all of that stuff together use a cement mixer
Try less salt next time.
I think they like it 😃😃🌹💟🌹
I think my wife has been slipping a little bitter ingredient into my whiskey lately. It has slowly evolved into a slightly different taste and I seem to be drinking just a tad less
i notice last video you were kinda limping and seen it today too ??? what happened ?
I’ve got a knee that acts up occasionally. Maybe that’s what you saw?
Use 30kgs of pure jaggery and pour 10ltrs of hot water.. Molasses is ready