Horses

Our heifers have been a very interesting study in fetal programming. We have 67 heifers that were born here from mother cows that were on SweetPro for their entire breeding and gestation period. We have 20 heifers that are from our other ranch that’s Reno’s brother runs, and those heifers’ mothers were only on SweetPro during the harsh winter months in the last trimester of gestation. Out of our current total of 29 calved out heifers, only THREE are from the other ranch’s bunch, the remaining 26 that have calved are from our bunch here, (the remaining herd of heifers from the other place is being calved out by my niece/nephew, and they have 11) meaning, our heifers bred up on the first cycle at a rate that is over twice as fast than the other ranch’s heifers. Its a good comparison b/c the mother cow and bull genetics are the same in both herds, and the heifers from both places were all consolidated as yearlings into one pasture for breeding last season, so they all grazed the same range, serviced by the same bulls. Conception rate for our group of heifers was significantly higher at preg testing as well.

Since we started using Sweet Pro our cows have held their condition through the winter. We have also improved in our weaning weight 20-30 pounds. We also use Sweet Pro Products with our 45 head of camp horses and have been very impressed with the improvement in being able to maintain a good condition; especially with our older horses.

SweetPro has had a significant impact w/ our 2 yr old calving heifers in the corral. Our hay consumption rate is way down–we used to feed 4, 1700 lb bales/day to 200 heifers, whereas now our consumption is down to 2.75 bales, with under 1lb of SweetPro FiberMate 20 consumption per day. With today’s hay prices, every bit sure helps! Our heifers have more milk, are stronger calvers and our calf scour death loss has dropped to almost zero. We rarely have a cow that does not clean within 24hrs of calving. Calves learn to eat SweetPro right alongside their mothers in the pastures, and even our neighbors have noted how much thicker and beefier our calves are now, even before green grass. SweetPro has provided us with more piece of mind and herd health than any other supplement we’ve fed previously.

Just thought I would drop you an email and let you know some of our results over the course of the winter. We fed the backgrounder tubs to about 1250 head of yearlings, and Redmond salt and conditioner to the other 1250 head of yearling on our place. On a bad year we suffer from about 120 cases of coccidiosis in our yearlings. This year we only doctored one (and we are not even sure if he was actually sick with it or not). Although we still had some foot rot out of one truckload of cattle that came in our sickness was next to nothing this year, which was good considering how bad of a winter we had. The product really works. Thanks. Just a little side note here about the gains we have had with our yearlings on SweetPro and Redmond products. Over the last week we have sold about 600 head of yearlings in two bunches. They were started out on the backgrounder tub and then switched to FiberMate 18’s part way through the summer. They ate about .75 lbs per day of the tubs and were space fed as well. We had Redmond salt on the side and they were just on summer rangeland and we still gained 2.99lbs on one bunch and 3.02 lbs per day on the other. These particular cattle didn’t have fly control and no growth hormones either.

Since we started using Sweet Pro our cows have held their condition through the winter. We have also improved in our weaning weight 20-30 pounds. We also use Sweet Pro Products with our 45 head of camp horses and have been very impressed with the improvement in being able to maintain a good condition; especially with our older horses.

We can certainly attest to herd health benefits of our products to reduce the need for antibiotics. We sent 360 calves raised on SweetPro, whose mothers were also raised on SweetPro (and at this point probably generations past that with 10 yrs of feeding SweetPro), and so far, the feedlot has had to doctor only 2 calves with antibiotics, and those two only required one dose each.

I can’t say enough good things about this stuff (SweetPro) in the 10 years I’ve been working on this ranch we have used pellets, cake, tubs and nothing has worked as good as this SweetPro

Last fall we fence-line weaned 285 calves on our hay meadows and SweetPro’s Kaf Kandi.  They immediately took to the Kaf Kandi and consumption was right where it was supposed to be.  The calves seemed to hold good body condition, and health was excellent with having to treat just one in 60 days.  As with anything new, we were a bit skeptical of weaning the calves on the tubs for the first time.  We were very impressed with the results and really appreciate the convenience of the tubs.