How I Finally Fixed My Biggest Ranching Problem
I had a neighbor, and he's tighter than I am. And I saw an orange tub at his place, and I nearly had a wreck. So I called John. I said, did he buy one for you? He said, yeah. I said, if he can buy one, I'll take nine of them. Just really blessed to be in the cow business right now. I don't know what else I'd do if I didn't do that. I've known John a long time, and I trust him. And he was telling me, he said, Lisa, just try him. Just try him. And I did, and it's the best decision I've made. I'm sticking with him. He was kind enough to follow me around eight place, put them all out for me, wrote the dates on there, the time we put them out, where the level was, and he cares about his customers. I can call him morning, noon, night if it's a question. He's Johnny on the spot. He'll answer me back, and I appreciate that. And his word means a lot. He told me that if those cattle ate so much in the first days or whatever, there was a a money back guarantee, they would pay so much back on the next round of tubs. Oh, you don't get that with any other company either. They don't care if they cattle eat them in one day. They just want you to buy another tub. And I'm very frugal, but I think it's a it's a very good investment. Anybody that doesn't try it, I think, is silly. The cattle, can drive down the road, see them laying down, dah dah, just grazing for every bite they can eat. They seem to be more content. They seem to have changed kind of personalities. They just eat what they need and go on. They don't over consume it like a all day sucker like the other seems to be doing. We have had been in such a horrible drought, but I can't believe how good these cattle actually look now. I blame a lot of that on this tub right here. I mean, the good Lord provided us with the water to grow the grass, but they need some extra because it was dry for so long. And these cattle look as good a shape as anybody's in this part of the country. They just kinda blossom more. Some of these Bramer cows look really bad. And then they, you know, they started picking up. Before it even started raining, these cattle were looking better and better on the tubs. Every all the places, cattle look much better. I guess something in that tub right there, evidently they're consuming everything they're eating now and they're not just trying to fill up on whatever they can find. They're not just look like a bunch of lawn mowers out there. They just seem to lay down more and just kind of rest more and not just putting the miles on themselves trying to find a bite to eat. And I was worried about having kids in that drought so bad, but now I'm not worried about anything. They got plenty to eat, they've got their supplement in. I don't think it's a one time wonder at all, but I think it's gonna be in the long term. If you'll stay with them, I think you'll see some benefits. It's money in the bank feeding these tubs. It's just a good chunk of change for initial investment, but it's gonna pay off, I think, in the long run. If you were my neighbor, I'd tell you to try it. If you didn't like it, I'd buy it back from you.
Fast Facts
- Bought 9 tubs after spotting a neighbor's orange tub
- Money-back guarantee if cattle went through tubs too fast early on
- Cattle graze calmly and lay down more, instead of overeating
- Noticeable body condition improvement during severe drought, even before rain came
- Rough-looking Brahman cows picked up and improved on the tubs
- Views it as a long-term investment, not a one-time fix
Lisa is quick to admit she's frugal, "tighter than" the neighbor who first put her onto the tubs. She spotted an orange tub at his place, called a mutual contact named John, and when she heard her neighbor had bought one, she decided she'd take nine. She trusted John, and he made the switch easy: he followed her around to eight locations, set the tubs out himself, and wrote down the dates and levels at each stop. He's stayed available since, answering questions any time of day, and told her about a guarantee that if cattle went through the tubs too fast, the next round would be credited back, something she said she hasn't seen offered by any other company.
The results showed up fast. Instead of chasing every bite like "a bunch of lawnmowers," her cattle settled down, grazed at their own pace, and spent more time resting. In the middle of a bad drought, and even before it started raining, her cattle were visibly improving, including some rough-looking Brahman cows that picked up condition on the tubs. She doesn't think it's a one-time result, she expects the benefit to hold if she sticks with it, and calls the upfront cost worth it for what it's paying back. "It's money in the bank feeding these tubs."
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Seen a lot of savings on our on our pastures. Generally, figure about five and a half to six acres of pair around through here. We've been even last year through the drought of that we had of twenty twenty, we did four and a half acres of pair on on ours, still had adequate grass left. Cattle came off in good condition. They weren't weren't malnutritioned, weren't low body scores. Been running pretty consistent, six body score better on everything. We're paying right around fifty dollar an acre cash rent up here is kinda kind of a common thing. You can knock out an acre here off of every cow that that saves a lot of money. Mean, fifty fifty bucks and you don't need four hundred another four hundred acres. It's another twenty thousand. So all of a sudden you got forty forty five thousand dollars in your pocket and you still have all the extra added benefits through the mineral, the health benefits of it. And it really saved on the last year too with the drought. We didn't think we'd get through. We put the same amount of number in the pastures and it didn't rain. We pulled it out and we still had old grass in the pasture. I didn't know the tub saved that whole deal. We had stretched it a lot because there was a lot of people selling cows and we didn't sell anything and we didn't pull them out early. And this year, most of the pastures around here are pretty much nothing. And we drove through everything. We still got, you know, shoots of grass and tufts of grass all over the place. Not a lot, but it we kept them. It made a huge difference. As far as paying for itself, you know, you got to feed and you start saving instead of a lot of guys are up to forty five, fifty five pounds. It was figured somewhere in there a big cow and even when they had the calf on them sixty pounds. So if you're feeding thirty pounds, yeah, it's gonna easily pay for itself without you see a bit. I mean, we, you can see it on the cow calf pairs too, bigger calves. We calve in May, June, and we're weaving seven hundred and some pound calves off of Dallas. So it makes, yeah, we can see the difference really easy. You just go through each step and see We're running more cows than we used to run on the same acres. That is a big deal. Because I used to on on my pastures, they're not big pastures, but on my pastures, I used to run twenty five head and they would have it grazed down to nothing in five months easy. Now I can run thirty, thirty five on the same pastures, and they can stay there another month longer easy on any given year. And this year, they got to stay two months longer, and there's still grass left over. Well, yeah, it's high priced, but it's like if if you can afford or not. But I think you can afford it because you cannot afford not to feed it because you can get your cattle to market faster. They're healthier. You could run more cattle on your land or you can stay there longer before you have to move on to an another patch. The cows are way healthier. They're way more content. They're happy. They're happy cows.
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