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25 pounds
* Vitamin and Trace mineral package that you blend with white salt, other macro minerals, and dical, as formulated by the rations.
* Depending on stage of production, sheep base will provide between 40-90 units of vitamin E per head.
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25 pounds
* Similar product to bk Sheep Base 25 except that it has no added molybdenum.
* The use of bk Sheep w/o moly is for flocks that have naturally occurring molybdenum levels present in feed tests.
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50 pounds
* Vitamin and Trace mineral package with added chelated trace minerals.
* Designed for high production, high stressed sheep that can benefit from elevated chelated trace minerals.
* Sheep Base II provides between 70-140 units of Vitamin E per head.
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* I can also design new vitamin and trace mineral packages for areas requiring unique nutritional needs due to soil or forage factors.
* It is because of this variability that we need to start with forage analysis that are tested for the trace minerals.
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One bag of bk Sheep Base will feed approximately 20-25 ewes for six months.
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bk Sheep Nutrition Services is a unique program to sheep producers. It allows you to have mineral mixes formulated to your sheep's needs, not to what a company puts in a bag.
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I will provide your sheep the best possible nutrition by balancing rations based on your feeds using bk Sheep vitamin and trace mineral packages. I will calculate your feed and mineral cost of your current diet and compare that to what I would recommend. Many times I have saved producers money while increasing the vitamin and trace mineral levels in the sheep's diet.
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I can also custom design grain and protein mixes using local products available to you, to meet the growth needs you expect of your lambs and production of your ewes.
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By purchasing bk Sheep products, you will also receive nutritional advise and accurately balanced rations. This will improve your flock's health and performance while increasing your profitability.
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I have designed this program to be practical and profitable to use.
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Begin with forage samples from your hay or pasture.
Accurate forage tests are used to properly balance the mineral mix and recommended ration for your animals. Since feeds will vary from farm to farm, both locally and geographically, there is no way a company's one or two products can meet the needs accurately for many sheep over such a wide area. Forage samples will give you a history of how your feeds vary in time.
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Once I have received your forage samples from the lab, I will:
- Balance your sheep's ration for the stage of production and body weight
- Recommend grain & protein needs
- Recommend what you will need to mix for a mineral blend using bk Sheep Base
- Recommend the consumption rate of what this mineral mix should be
All rations will give a complete printout of trace mineral levels.
I concentrated on providing the legal limit of selenium and feeding higher levels of vitamin E. I will balance to insure a proper copper to molybdenum ration to help prevent copper toxicity. Other micro nutrients of concern will be zinc, cobalt and iodine levels. When comparing for the first time, I can show you how a custom blended mineral mix designed by me would compare to what your sheep are receiving now. You will know all vitamin and trace mineral levels. I do not hide information from my customers. |
These products do not have any added copper.
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