Why We Stopped Using Cake and Switched to Tubs

Us as humans, we're just full of ourselves. We think we can outsmart nature and we'll just supplement them. So all this supplementation happens, so what you end up with a few generations down the road is a bunch of cow herds that can't operate without being subsidized. Kind of like people. Handouts, handouts, handouts. Guess what? That guy don't want to go to work no more. He's going to stand in the corner until you hand feed him and our cows are getting that way. Name's Kurt Waddington. I've been basically ranching for thirty one years. I've been here in the state of Wyoming going on three It's been good. It's put food on our table. Guys like me aren't into this to make a bunch of money because you're not going to. You're into it because you love it and a way of doing things, take pride in how you do things, keeping a hold of some of the old ways of doing things. It keeps it interesting and it keeps your kids interested. It's called the VR because the Queen of England funded a Scotsman by the name of Walcott. We've gotten some financial trouble, and part of the deal was... So I was told he had to put the VR for Victoria. Some people say it's Victoria Regina was her name. Others say it was Victoria Ranch. But anyway, it goes way back in the barn we're in right now is, you know, there's dates on all back to like 1911. Where I come from, they don't do pellets. There is tub and there's a lot of liquid. There's a lot of holes in it. You know, you're you're you're limited on weather, location. And so I wanted to find a tub that was good. And I've used these other ones and they just they just sit there and eat them. They just eat them, eat them, eat them, eat them. And the tub again and the tub again, you know. We fought scours and purple Really bad with the cabster and calving. And Mark had got ahold of me about Riomax that they tried out. He had a lot of guys talking about the purple gut. Like they're not seeing it. Scours are not seeing it. And when I first came here, the year before last, so we first did the Riomax. No purple gut, no scours. I can honestly say we didn't see it last year and the year before. I've used a lot of different products and this one, I like it. The price scared me to death, but when it's all said and done, it's cheaper. For the last two years, it's been right on the money, right on the money, £0.25 a day, sometimes less. You take the other product plus mineral plus salt, you're way up there. I think all in all you've got three things, four things, five things wrapped up into one bundle. I couldn't tell you without a calculator, but the cake is just the cattle do good on it, but some cows come in and they'll eat five pounds. One cow might get a half a pound, one cow might not get any. And if it's raining or snowing, most of it goes in the mud. Once it gets muddy, there's no way they can touch it. That alone, without the math, tells me something like this is way more... You're getting your money's worth. Because, yeah, cake might be cheaper, yeah, it might be this fantastic protein energy, but not every cow's getting what she deserves or what she should have. Again, if it's muddy, snowy, guess what? How many pounds of pellets is down in that mud that you paid for? You know, so this, makes sense to me. I don't think you got to do a whole lot of math. Just the common sense of you're comparing it to some of this other stuff I've used. It's kind of a no brainer to me. I'm I'm pretty simple minded, sometimes too simple minded, it seems like a no brainer to me. So no, couldn't put a price on them.