From 10% Death Loss to 2–3% Across the Board

It's frustrating. Very I mean, when you're riding through cattle every day and you have that set that comes in that yesterday, you pulled ten. The next day, it's twenty. And then twenty five, thirty and it, keeps going up. You pulled one yesterday, and the next day, he looks worse. Doesn't look better. Gets to the point where you don't even know what to do no more. I've been doing this now for my whole life grew up around cattle. I do everything at once, so they get off the truck. I band, cut, whatever that's gonna get, implant. And our biggest problem was when we first started, what I could see is it's hard to get calves that never been on the bunk to eat. Hard to keep them full. They come in real pretty. Couple days later, you start going down. That's really the biggest change I've seen with Riomax. They've seemed to stay fuller and they respond to the medicine a little bit better. Before Riomax, what we were doing is, I mean, mass treating. It sounds kind of bad, but I've always told them, if we can keep anything under ten percent death loss, that was our goal. I mean, yeah, of course, anything under that's great. And I mean, at least me, realistically, that's what you're trying to do. And to compare to now, I mean, man, it's crazy life changing. I mean, where we're at now, We wouldn't be scared to say we're probably two or three percent death loss all the way across the board. I mean, it's just that's crazy. It's a little scary because it's never been that smooth. Now we look back and all them other ones we lost, maybe there was just this we could've done different. It saves one more calf, two more calves, that's a big difference. I mean, as expensive everything is nowadays. To make money in this, you cannot be losing dead animal. Every time you drag one out to the dead pile, you're looking fifteen hundred, twenty five hundred dollars. You have to do whatever you can. Went to Oklahoma the other day, we bought some four wheelers, talking to a guy that runs stocker calves. He said, man, where where's your death loss at? He didn't believe me when I told him. I said, man, well really, I don't have one right now. And we're running sale barn, we're running ranch calves. And I told him to call Julie and get some Riomax and see if he see the difference. I said, you'll see it. You notice it doctoring them. I mean, if you have a set you were pulling, you probably get fifteen. You can tell they move on faster. Those twenty one days are critical. First day they get here and you mass treat till twenty one days, you see that sort of up and down. And with this, there's more of a little constant. It's going up. You don't really see a downfall. You don't really see that one that's just dying there in the corner. Even if you look here in the pen, the cow's manure, you can see a lot of difference in it. It look more compact, not as runny. They just seem to hold feed better, and they're a little bit more active. They just have more energy. Like, they're holding more of the more of the intake protein they're holding it to better. And that make makes for a better gain, I think. It's not cheap, but I mean, if it's working, anything's cheaper than having ten percent death loss. It's a really good thing because it gets bad and people aren't happy when your your death rate's pretty high. It's it's hard to make a living when you can't keep them alive. You're starting in cattle and you you've seen a bad set to a good set, you'll notice it in the first thirty days or honestly two weeks. You do it long enough, you can see it. It's pretty pretty easy to see the difference. I might not be that old. I'm twenty nine years old, but I've done it all my life, and you damn sure you can tell the difference. Honestly, since the first Riomax tubs we got. We never quit ordering it now. We have it with us. The barn's full of it just to keep it on site.