Our Calves Are Up 20–30 Lbs. This Is the Only Thing We Changed.

Mom and dad didn't have a lot of money and had just one way to save money was me and my brother both milked cow. We got out of high school then they got rid of the cattle. I guess it was bred in me to have cattle. As I got older I started acquiring cattle probably twenty years ago and it's all grew and we've got much of land to go with it and trying to make all the ends meet and work ourself to death. We went to a lot of seminars. I'd always ask them, are you doing this free choice real life, or force feeding it in pens? And their answer was always, through force feeding. We always wanted to do what was right, the cheapest way. We've tried, like I say, every program out there. I can name a whole slew of them. And it seemed like they're just eating it like candy and I couldn't tell no difference in the cattle. I don't really know how we got started on Riomax. Think Grant seen it on a Facebook commercial and we started inquiring about it and got turned on to it and I thought dang this stuff's gonna be expensive and it was. Mean that first we bought a semi load and that first semi load they went through it pretty quick and Riomax had a consumption guarantee and they stood behind it. Well it saved me fifteen thousand dollars on the second semi load. That meant a lot for them to stand do what they said they would do because I was skeptic at first and they said they'd stand behind it and I mean there wasn't no qualms about it they did what they said. We started out in August we always know in the fall of the year that was a high consumption rate for mineral. So I wasn't completely taken by surprise. Turned into spring now and they backed way off of consuming it and I think it's just the time of year there wasn't nothing in the grass and they was going to that mineral tub get the vitamins they needed. Probably about two weeks into it, that's the first thing we noticed is their patty looked like the grass was a lot more chewed up. It wasn't near as stringy and they was truly digesting more of it, which we're poor about keeping records. We just shoot from the hip. We probably didn't feed near as much hay as we normally would have. They're laying down in the pasture a lot more often than normally they'd be up eating or in the pond standing in the water. They just seemed a lot happier and their coats better. Coat was more shiny and stuff and their hair quality. We take good care of our cows too, I mean, as far as feed and manual stuff. I know we've not had a lot of calf trouble this year. One thing Riomax said is breed back time would be faster, they thought. We paid attention to it when they said it. Everything they said, we've kind of paid more attention to see if it's actually done what they said it would do and it has. We're raising a lot of heifers and calving heifers out. We've not had a lot of heifer trouble. We've seen them start breeding back in about thirty days too. The tubs are easy. I mean, they're real easy. You can drive by and see if there's material in them or not and they're turned over out there, you know they're empty. It's easy. It's the easiest thing we've done. We'd see it in the gain a little bit. We just sold four hundred head of calves. We've noticed that they were probably a little bit bigger than what they were in years past. They grouped up. The calves did really well. We're gonna keep on staying on. I told them we've tried every mineral program out there and this is the simplest one and probably the best one we've been on.