Tyler love seeing your experiments regarding feed. Sure it will take a minute to dial in but as you said knowledge of what's in the feed and cost. Peace of mind and money. Who doesn't want that? Keep it up brother😀
Weasel here from down in the hollers of Kentucky. It’s nice to watch your videos on experimental farming techniques. Never know how things will turnout if you don’t try. Just like being on an online training lab. It’s very educational and interesting. Oh, just because I don’t comment very often doesn’t mean I’m not watching.
The great thing about mixing your own is you can add what you think is necessary. As a young boy(45 years ago) my dad would mix 1/3 bone meal, 1/3 lime (main ingredient in Portland cement) and 1/3 rock salt for our cows. Its what they always did going back over 100 years.
I wonder if the Portland Cement serves to hold the protein supplement in the digestive system longer, thus enhancing absorption and use of nutrients by the body. Excellent videos!
Use regular salt not trace mineral. Mix 2:1 with soybean meal. And if you’re going to mix wind and rain mineral with it you need to mix more soybean meal to allow for the salt that in it. Because wind and rain is a complete mix. And I use a 3 compartment mineral feeder with rubber top so it can be out in the field also built a 2x4 sled to drag it around
👍 hope you do a follow up on this one...never thought of making my own tubs may check into this 😉 right at $109 per tub here , several people have mentioned cement mixer ..might get cha a paint mixer for a 5 gal. bucket from your home depot and use your cordless drill, come to think of it I believe the mixer I got was in the cement section for mixing mortar 🤔
Good morning,I see you are taking care of what you have to do. Your lovely family and big beautiful ranch. All those pretty and healthy animals that you have. I love your videos.
If you get into making these regularly maybe an old electric cement mix. Just wash it up so the salt doesn’t rot the metal away. Great video. I had no idea cement was used in commercial tubs. I always thought they were cured under pressure. No basis for the pressure idea just seemed logical.
I recall hearing some news 45+ years ago about cows grazing a field down wind from a cement plant. The pasture was far from grey but obviously the cows were getting at least trace amounts of cement in their food and they put on weight in a hurry. At 25% salt I'm betting salt blocks will last longer.
I just wanted to add that i greatly admire your thought pattern for this. Also wanted to ask if adding 2-4 lbs of charcoal would be a help to them as it helps to deal with tummy upsets and could help prevent bloat?
Brewer's yeast...soybean meal! Go to a farm auction at some point, pick up a cheap, but working used cement mixer... you can also buy dried molasses 😉 and your minerals...
I’ve visited some old timer in Florida years ago and he was using cottonseed halls mixed with salt to limit intake said it worked great I myself I fooled around buying protein tubs years ago I think they’re just don’t pan out economically at all cattle markets are so bad right now that in order to make money with cattle they just got a live off what you got
In your video of the cow that died, you took it to your local vet school. They might help you come up with a formula or ideas. But tp me looks like your on the right track. I dont know of its done out there, but around. Here guys use creep feed for calves which is basically groumd corn and salt. Im interested to ser your results
How will you know if this mix is successful? By how much is consumed? I had no idea you needed to supplement protein for the cows on the winter pasture. Very interesting. I learn something new in every one of your videos.
Tyler ,I would think the commercial mineral already has enough salt to limit the consumption I do know that when you start a mineral program cattle that are in need will hit it hard and level off as the get there requirements so check daily intake ,you might be shorting them on the trace minerals I like learning with you
I. Mix a 100 pound cotton seed mill and a 100 pound soybean mill and a 100 pound of wind & rain minerals and a 100 pound salt , and then I put it in a feed tray 20 foot long that the cow's and calfs can get all on both sides of the way a round the feed tray , that will feed 30 head of cow's and calfs a 7 to 10 days , my feed tray is 20 foot long and 2 foot wide and is 18 inches deep and it has a roof on the top keep it dry from the rain .
Portland cement , isn't food , I would try doing something like your doing . Is the goal to have a hard protein salt lick type product , of course cheap .
What did you find to be your final optimum mix? And what type of daily intakes did you achieve? In East Africa where my spouse is from, molasses cement block mixtures are made with 10% urea. It's made as a cement block to prevent over consumption of urea, which has been recommended to be less than 135 g per day for dairy cows to prevent dry matter intake depression.
Farmer Tyler Ranch yeah can’t complain. I just like making things myself for the heck of it. Just had to cost efficient as well. Hope it works out and saves you some money
Here i australia i buy the hard mineral block its meant to be a lick block but ive caught the cows chewing on it instead usually one block between nine cows lasts about just over a month
@@farmertylerranch4399 im fairly safe at the moment with fires but their everywhere this summer has been bad for fires around the country sadly theirs been quite a few that have been deliberately lit
Indeed the protein tubs are not cheap. We've used them in the past. Now we use sweet elite, alfalfa pellets and beet pulp(re-hydrated). This is another one of those issues you need to consider in the quest to widen the ole profit margin huh. Your topics always give me food for thought in that quest and makes me look at how I operate. Have you ever done a protein analysis of your hay?
What you're doing is what people who manage their deer herds (myself included) have been doing for years. We take bags of appropriate dry materials and mix them then distribute the mix at multiple locations where deer will be safe to frequent to get it. It goes straight onto the ground, then raked into the top of the soil. Once the visible ingredients are gone (and rain is actually desired), the deer will come back to that spot for YEARS to keep licking the dirt to get the minerals out of it. They will literally eat a hole in the ground. Many people pour their mix onto stumps to get the deer to basically eat the stumps down to the ground to get the mineral. Even if you buy a deer mineral block, part of it will melt into the ground and do the same thing. I put the minerals in the same spots once a year (in late Feb). Also, part of the reason for a binder is to keep the mixed minerals distributed evenly. If not, the lighter, fluffier contents will stay at the top and the salt will go to the bottom eventually, then they will eat all the other stuff rapidly (especially if you have molasses in it) and the salt won't be an effective deterrent.
I was watching and it was funny to see the ear tags 44 45 , 45 46, how many cows about 20 right how about beets for the sugar for sweetness ?........have a great weekend stay safe, hugs
It looks hard to mix. It might be easier if you add the first two and mix then add the next and mix again. That way it is easier to get to the bottom. I saw you digging around pretty hard.
I'm thinking about mixing 50% soybean meal and 50% corn to feed the deer near my house. I'm next to a local state park so there is a lot of dear but they're not getting enough protein and are rather small. Im assuming when a 50lb bag of soybean meal says 46% or 47.5% thats referring to the amount of protein. If corn is 8% protein per 50lb and soybean meal is 46% protein per 50lb then that means out of 100lbs 27lbs should be protein.
Wow, our 200 lb 24% protein tubs are $54. Maybe in Texas our material would be less expensive than Cali. But you did give me lots to think about with this project.
I make my own also! Another way to mix bulk like your doing that I’ve found to be quicker and less work. Sweep your concrete floor and next time pour your ingredients out in long narrow piles side by side as even as possible. Then using a scoop or tool mix them back in forth weaving, stirring and sweeping the ingredients until you’ve reached the desired mix. Sweep into a pile and fill your tubs. Great video brother
Morning Tyler Your 🐄 very smart they know their know molasses mix / that food they really love that sweet tasty of Molasses. Thanks for sharing Enjoy your day
whats the deal with the yamaha-ha-ha-. hey suzi's first!! or even better my fav HONDA!! good economic thinking!! and you have better control of quality in minerals.greg judy has a smorgessboard type feeder. 10-12 diff boxes on a moveable dispenser.. did you put new tires on front of the 4 wheeler??good vid..
I often wonder how you run a ranch all by yourself.........well now I know, all the subscribers in your comments give you all the advice, tips & tricks you’ll ever need. lol
I think my wife has been slipping a little bitter ingredient into my whiskey lately. It has slowly evolved into a slightly different taste and I seem to be drinking just a tad less
Tyler love seeing your experiments regarding feed. Sure it will take a minute to dial in but as you said knowledge of what's in the feed and cost. Peace of mind and money. Who doesn't want that? Keep it up brother😀
Weasel here from down in the hollers of Kentucky. It’s nice to watch your videos on experimental farming techniques. Never know how things will turnout if you don’t try. Just like being on an online training lab. It’s very educational and interesting. Oh, just because I don’t comment very often doesn’t mean I’m not watching.
R U closer 2 the Hatfields or the McCoy's? 😊
The great thing about mixing your own is you can add what you think is necessary. As a young boy(45 years ago) my dad would mix 1/3 bone meal, 1/3 lime (main ingredient in Portland cement) and 1/3 rock salt for our cows. Its what they always did going back over 100 years.
Great job to the Farmer Tyler Ranch 😊 , all that great food you are feeding your animals. Happy New year.
I wonder if the Portland Cement serves to hold the protein supplement in the digestive system longer, thus enhancing absorption and use of nutrients by the body. Excellent videos!
Use regular salt not trace mineral. Mix 2:1 with soybean meal. And if you’re going to mix wind and rain mineral with it you need to mix more soybean meal to allow for the salt that in it. Because wind and rain is a complete mix. And I use a 3 compartment mineral feeder with rubber top so it can be out in the field also built a 2x4 sled to drag it around
👍 hope you do a follow up on this one...never thought of making my own tubs may check into this 😉 right at $109 per tub here , several people have mentioned cement mixer ..might get cha a paint mixer for a 5 gal. bucket from your home depot and use your cordless drill, come to think of it I believe the mixer I got was in the cement section for mixing mortar 🤔
Cool idea! You know what you need is a cement mixer to mix your batches. That way you would have a thorough mix. Just a thought. Thanks for sharing.
Good morning,I see you are taking care of what you have to do. Your lovely family and big beautiful ranch. All those pretty and healthy animals that you have. I love your videos.
Thanks Wykeisha! You’re always so positive!
Howdy 🤠, ❤️ the videos . Y’all are a really great teacher. Learning a lot. Keep cranking out the videos.
If you get into making these regularly maybe an old electric cement mix. Just wash it up so the salt doesn’t rot the metal away. Great video. I had no idea cement was used in commercial tubs. I always thought they were cured under pressure. No basis for the pressure idea just seemed logical.
I recall hearing some news 45+ years ago about cows grazing a field down wind from a cement plant. The pasture was far from grey but obviously the cows were getting at least trace amounts of cement in their food and they put on weight in a hurry. At 25% salt I'm betting salt blocks will last longer.
I just wanted to add that i greatly admire your thought pattern for this. Also wanted to ask if adding 2-4 lbs of charcoal would be a help to them as it helps to deal with tummy upsets and could help prevent bloat?
What does the charcoal do to the mix of feed ?
Brewer's yeast...soybean meal!
Go to a farm auction at some point, pick up a cheap, but working used cement mixer... you can also buy dried molasses 😉 and your minerals...
You could use an old cement mixer to mix and speed up your mixing time for multiple tubs , just a thought to save you time .
Great video Tyler makeing your own supplement
I have used a clean cement mixer to mix compost and dry feeds. It does a great job. Mine is a cheap 120 volt mixer from Harbor Freight.
F.S.U you got the right idea. I'm down here in Wakulla
I’ve visited some old timer in Florida years ago and he was using cottonseed halls mixed with salt to limit intake said it worked great I myself I fooled around buying protein tubs years ago I think they’re just don’t pan out economically at all cattle markets are so bad right now that in order to make money with cattle they just got a live off what you got
In your video of the cow that died, you took it to your local vet school. They might help you come up with a formula or ideas. But tp me looks like your on the right track. I dont know of its done out there, but around. Here guys use creep feed for calves which is basically groumd corn and salt. Im interested to ser your results
kory league, yes good idea. Or maybe the UC Davis Ag Extension office has a PDF already made up.
Not a bad idea Kory thanks!
Thanks again for the video...do you have a concrete mixer? Maybe that would mix the feed for you if you have to do a lot of it...
How will you know if this mix is successful? By how much is consumed? I had no idea you needed to supplement protein for the cows on the winter pasture. Very interesting. I learn something new in every one of your videos.
Looks promising! Have a great weekend!💕
Is there an attachment to your drill that help mix, kinda like with paint
Always like watching your videos, also like when your wife is in them as well.
Tyler ,I would think the commercial mineral already has enough salt to limit the consumption I do know that when you start a mineral program cattle that are in need will hit it hard and level off as the get there requirements so check daily intake ,you might be shorting them on the trace minerals I like learning with you
I. Mix a 100 pound cotton seed mill and a 100 pound soybean mill and a 100 pound of wind & rain minerals and a 100 pound salt , and then I put it in a feed tray 20 foot long that the cow's and calfs can get all on both sides of the way a round the feed tray , that will feed 30 head of cow's and calfs a 7 to 10 days , my feed tray is 20 foot long and 2 foot wide and is 18 inches deep and it has a roof on the top keep it dry from the rain .
Cool. Thanks
Should be interesting to see how this works out with the cows. Thanks for sharing. Stay safe.
Where is the best place to buy the supplies online?
Get yourself a cheap concrete mixer from Harbor freight to mix your supplement in and you'll get a more consistent mix!
Very interesting........... can you please do an update video?
Portland cement , isn't food , I would try doing something like your doing . Is the goal to have a hard protein salt lick type product , of course cheap .
What did you find to be your final optimum mix? And what type of daily intakes did you achieve? In East Africa where my spouse is from, molasses cement block mixtures are made with 10% urea. It's made as a cement block to prevent over consumption of urea, which has been recommended to be less than 135 g per day for dairy cows to prevent dry matter intake depression.
Is there a follow up video to this one?
This is an interesting experiment. Can't wait to see the results.
Hey there FTR curious if you have revisited making your own supplement more recently.
Check out what Doug Pow is doing with biochar. I’m gonna try that in my mix
Should I call the patent attorney 2 start work on the FTR Mineral Mix Master? Excellent explanation of the process 2 make a batch, now we wait. 👍👏😊
Haha don’t call just yet!
A good mixer for under 200 dollars comes Harbor Freight also good for blending seed mixtures for pastures and concrete for fence and gate post
Great idea, the part I hate is the weight of those molasses tubes is just too heavy.
Wow, crazy how different prices are around the country. I'm in Michigan and I get my 200 lb 24% protein tubs for $50.
I’ll have to check my local pricing and see if it’s cheaper for me to make one of these tubs. In kentucky it’s $48 for 200 lb. tub.
California can be very expensive.
Depending on the quality you mite have a load shipped Hot Shot and sale what you don't use. LOL
That’s pretty cheap!
Farmer Tyler Ranch yeah can’t complain. I just like making things myself for the heck of it. Just had to cost efficient as well. Hope it works out and saves you some money
How long will this last
Seen the title, thought you were starting a new exercise and diet routine video, then realized you were taking care of the cows. :)
Good one Brad!
i thought he was making for him too lol
Haha you should have known!!
I thought the VERY SAME THING! LOL!!!
How’d this mix turn out?
It will be awesome if you find a good mix
The cows seem very interested in that mineral mixture!
Can you add molasses and salt at the time in one mix ?
I think the salt will make them just drink more water
Tyler not to tell you what to do but to mix it all together dump it in a electric concrete mixer. Done this before works great
Good idea. I think the key will be keeping it dry as you said and making sure they can't tip it over.
Absolutely right
Here i australia i buy the hard mineral block its meant to be a lick block but ive caught the cows chewing on it instead usually one block between nine cows lasts about just over a month
Thanks Noel I sure hope those fires aren’t close to you!
@@farmertylerranch4399 im fairly safe at the moment with fires but their everywhere this summer has been bad for fires around the country sadly theirs been quite a few that have been deliberately lit
Indeed the protein tubs are not cheap. We've used them in the past. Now we use sweet elite, alfalfa pellets and beet pulp(re-hydrated). This is another one of those issues you need to consider in the quest to widen the ole profit margin huh. Your topics always give me food for thought in that quest and makes me look at how I operate. Have you ever done a protein analysis of your hay?
Thanks Bob. No I’ve never tested my hay. That type is supposed to be 10-12 percent but I would like to test it one day just to see
What you're doing is what people who manage their deer herds (myself included) have been doing for years. We take bags of appropriate dry materials and mix them then distribute the mix at multiple locations where deer will be safe to frequent to get it. It goes straight onto the ground, then raked into the top of the soil. Once the visible ingredients are gone (and rain is actually desired), the deer will come back to that spot for YEARS to keep licking the dirt to get the minerals out of it. They will literally eat a hole in the ground. Many people pour their mix onto stumps to get the deer to basically eat the stumps down to the ground to get the mineral. Even if you buy a deer mineral block, part of it will melt into the ground and do the same thing. I put the minerals in the same spots once a year (in late Feb). Also, part of the reason for a binder is to keep the mixed minerals distributed evenly. If not, the lighter, fluffier contents will stay at the top and the salt will go to the bottom eventually, then they will eat all the other stuff rapidly (especially if you have molasses in it) and the salt won't be an effective deterrent.
Also tell us how to make the formula
Will this replace the bags of minerals you put out last year to supplement their diets? I remember you had to add them for quite a while.
Yes this is basically that same mineral plus soybean meal and salt
Farmer Tyler Ranch, thank you for answering.
Seems like some of them liked it from the beginning. Love it when they pushed each other out of the way!
I was watching and it was funny to see the ear tags 44 45 , 45 46, how many cows about 20 right how about beets for the sugar for sweetness ?........have a great weekend stay safe, hugs
Yeah I was thinking maybe a bag of sweet feed if consumption is an issue. Thanks Iona!
Here in Indiana 200# 24% protein tubes are 46.99 plus. 👍👍
Wow I wish we had that here!
Have you thought about maybe substituting molasses with maple syrup
use a concrete mixer to mix the mineral/salt/meal
I couldn't imagine myself eating anything with 1 part salt 3 parts food
Example: one slice of bacon has about 135 parts food to 1 part salt
B glad U R not a cow!
@@ardurbin2 "Mooo"
Haha I could I love salt!
Have you kept using this after two years?
I think a drilled powered paint mixer may help
It looks hard to mix. It might be easier if you add the first two and mix then add the next and mix again. That way it is easier to get to the bottom. I saw you digging around pretty hard.
I'm thinking about mixing 50% soybean meal and 50% corn to feed the deer near my house. I'm next to a local state park so there is a lot of dear but they're not getting enough protein and are rather small. Im assuming when a 50lb bag of soybean meal says 46% or 47.5% thats referring to the amount of protein. If corn is 8% protein per 50lb and soybean meal is 46% protein per 50lb then that means out of 100lbs 27lbs should be protein.
Wow, our 200 lb 24% protein tubs are $54. Maybe in Texas our material would be less expensive than Cali. But you did give me lots to think about with this project.
Wow that’s pretty cheap. Not so around here!
About $60 in Ga
use a small cement mixer.
harbor freight concrete mixer......it's about all it's good for, but does work well.
Have you ever seen takota coen’s channel? He uses duckweed for protein and it works really well.
No I haven’t I’ll have to give it a look
Wheat Bran: 20%
Corn: 40%
Soybean Meal: 20%
Canola Meal: 10%
Corn Gluten Meal 60: 10%
What do you say?
Find you an old concrete mixer the little portable one
I’d they have trouble eating it later in try some dried molasses
Thought you were making yourself a protein shake
Paint mixer on a cordless drill!
Perhaps too much salt? Maybe 10 lbs less salt more mineral?
Too much salt could discourage them utilizing the benefits.
Yes I’ve got to find the balance
Love the Nerdy Farm Math. 😁
Haha!
Go to bomgars and get a yellow tub for 40 dollars it's 20 percent
Don’t have that in my area
@@farmertylerranch4399Curious if y'all have a Tractor Supply?
I make my own also! Another way to mix bulk like your doing that I’ve found to be quicker and less work.
Sweep your concrete floor and next time pour your ingredients out in long narrow piles side by side as even as possible.
Then using a scoop or tool mix them back in forth weaving, stirring and sweeping the ingredients until you’ve reached the desired mix.
Sweep into a pile and fill your tubs.
Great video brother
A 24% protein tub that’s 200lb is $37-$44 here
Wow cheap!
Protein and salt blocks are cheaper
Morning Tyler
Your 🐄 very smart they know their know molasses mix / that food they really love that sweet tasty of Molasses. Thanks for sharing
Enjoy your day
Good farming
Mine eat a $100 tub in 4 days. I would like to make my own too!
The idea of using salt to keep them from being pigs is a good idea.
Will it work for deer
I know a better way you can mix all of that stuff together use a cement mixer it won't take so long
I think they like it 😃😃🌹💟🌹
make sure you patent it lol kinda mixed on this video boringggg or not lol just not sure hugssss from Ontario Canada
Haha!
whats the deal with the yamaha-ha-ha-. hey suzi's first!! or even better my fav HONDA!! good economic thinking!! and you have better control of quality in minerals.greg judy has a smorgessboard type feeder. 10-12 diff boxes on a moveable dispenser.. did you put new tires on front of the 4 wheeler??good vid..
Thanks Mike yeah those are all my toys! Yes I got new tires on the front of the Honda so I’m really throwing mud now!
The very idea of putting cement in cattle feed is unsettling to me. Salt is a much better idea, IMO.
I know a better way you can mix all of that stuff together use a cement mixer
I often wonder how you run a ranch all by yourself.........well now I know, all the subscribers in your comments give you all the advice, tips & tricks you’ll ever need. lol
Try less salt next time.
i notice last video you were kinda limping and seen it today too ??? what happened ?
I’ve got a knee that acts up occasionally. Maybe that’s what you saw?
Use 30kgs of pure jaggery and pour 10ltrs of hot water.. Molasses is ready
I think my wife has been slipping a little bitter ingredient into my whiskey lately. It has slowly evolved into a slightly different taste and I seem to be drinking just a tad less