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AgriSolutions wrote
>One has to ask how animals ever managed in the wild to survive to this day
>without man's intervention if they did not have the innate ability to
>select
>feed based on their requirements at the time. It is high time that the well
>educated looked to the natural systems to learn how to best apply that
>knowledge instead of trying to recreate the wheel with all the flaws built
>into it by the reductionist process of research and its interpretation.
>
>
Bull puckey.
Using "free-choice" as a method to supply domesticated livestock
needs is
Russian roulette.
There was a very high mortality rate in the wild kingdom before man
domesticated certain animals for his use. In fact, the abundance of
wildlife in certain areas is the direct result of farmers raising crops, on
balanced soils. But try as we may here in WI, crops will never contain
enough selenium to meet our bovines' needs.
The best way to provide a balanced amount of minerals in our critters'
intakes is to disguise them (certain minerals taste icky) in a moderate
amount of grain supplement to our pasture intake. And if you put enough
molassas on concrete, you'd probably have some critters eat concrete.
Dave G.
WisCOWsin
