October 17, 2017
Nutrition & More...
Feedlot
Overview
Liquid Feed Supplements for Feedlot Nutritional Management
Liquid Supplements Provide a Range of Benefits to Feedlot Nutritional Management:
- Enhanced Nutrition
- Improved Palatability
- Ration Conditioning
- Reduced Fines/Sorting
- Convenient
- Cost Savings
Starters:
# 1 Goal of Starting Cattle: Get Them Eating! Bottom Line – – – QLF animal feed supplements provides Essential Nutrition for Optimal Health and Performance.
The receiving period is the most critical time in the feedlot. Calves experience the greatest amount of stress and disease challenge leading up to and during this period while feed and nutrient intakes are the most depressed. Proper nutrition is important to supply the immune system with the needed tools to respond effectively to eliminate or lessen the severity of the disease challenge.
Finishers:
# 1 Goal of Finishing Cattle: Efficient, Profitable Gain! Bottom Line – – – QLF Liquid Feed Supplements Enhances Feed Efficiency and Greater Additive Efficacy.
Finishing cattle is done with one primary goal in mind: Efficiency! Feed efficiency is largely dependent on a consistent supply of nutrients and additives to the rumen. Therefore, improving ration consistency promotes more efficient gains. QLF Liquid Feed Supplements have been shown to increase ration consistency.
Co-Products Ration Enhancers:
QLF CORE Supplements:
- Designed to balance rations containing corn by-products
- High in Calcium
- High in Trace Minerals
- Low in Phosphorus
- Available with approved ionophores and additives
- Address the specific nutrient concerns of corn by-product diets
- Offer flexibility to address specific nutritional concerns
Feedlot Products
Energy Balancers
Energy Balancer 9- 14409
QLF Energy Balancer 9 is a complete mineral product to reduce corn and/or other by-products in the ration.
Product Features:
- 9 percent crude protein
- Positively impacts intake and/or utilization of:
- Higher roughage diets
- Dry diets
- Starter/grower diets
- Finishing diets
- Limited corn supplies
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Energy Balancer 15- 14415
QLF Energy Balancer 15 is a complete mineral product to reduce corn and/or other by-products in the ration.
Product Features:
- 15 percent crude protein
- Positively impacts intake and/or utilization of:
- Higher roughage diets
- Dry diets
- Starter/grower diets
- Finishing diets
- Limited corn supplies
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Energy Balancer 20- 14420
QLF Energy Balancer 20 is a complete mineral product to reduce corn and/or other by-products in the ration.
Product Features:
- 20 percent crude protein
- Positively impacts intake and/or utilization of:
- Higher roughage diets
- Dry diets
- Starter/grower diets
- Finishing diets
- Limited corn supplies
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Energy Balancer 25- 14425
QLF Energy Balancer 25 is a complete mineral product to reduce corn and/or other by-products in the ration.
Product Features:
- 25 percent crude protein
- Positively impacts intake and/or utilization of:
- higher roughage diets
- Dry diets
- Starter/grower diets
- Finishing diets
- Limited corn supplies
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Starters
Nutristart 26- 17146
QLF NUTRISTART 26 is a liquid supplement designed for starting feeder claves or stressed cattle being fed in confinement during the growing and finishing phases.
Product Features:
- 26 percent crude protein.
- Includes supplemental Calcium, Phosphorus & Salt.
- Fortified with bioavailable forms of trace minerals and vitamins to promote good health and immune response.
- Provides 100% NRC levels of vitamins and trace minerals when fed at recommended levels.
- Contains recommended levels of Diamond V XPTM.
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Balances starter rations for feedlot cattle being adapted to grow/finish diets.
- Improves ration palatability to encourage acceptance and intake.
- Added sugars plus Diamond V XP Yeast Culture to enhance rumen function.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes & improved nutrient utilization to increase gains.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration or TMR.
Prostart 26- 17126
QLF Prostart 26 is a liquid supplement designed for starting feeder calves or stressed cattle being fed in confinement during the growing and finishing phases.
Product Features:
- 26 percent crude protein.
- Fortified with bioavailable forms of trace minerals and vitamins to promote good health and immune response
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations being fed a high grain ration.
- Added sugars enhance rumen function.
- Less sorting of the ration means more consistent intake of additives.
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio by improved intakes and increased gains.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration or TMR.
Corestart 20- 7900
QLF Core Start 20 is a liquid supplement designed for starting feeder calves or stressed cattle being fed in confinement during the growing and finishing phases.
Product Features:
- 20 percent crude protein.
- Fortified with bioavailable forms of trace minerals and vitamins to promote good health and immune response
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations being fed a high grain ration.
- Added sugars enhance rumen function.
- Less sorting of the ration means more consistent intake of additives.
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio by improved intakes and increased gains.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration or TMR.
Finishers
NutriBeef 25- 17250
NutriBeef 25 is a high calcium suspended liquid protein supplement designed for growing/finishing feedlot cattle primarily on high grain rations.
Product Features:
25 percent crude protein.
Supplies supplemental protein in an energy rich base.
Contains high levels of major and trace minerals.
Fortified with vitamins A-D-E, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and salt.
Highly stable suspension liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations being fed a high grain ration.
Added sugars enhance rumen function.
Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Less sorting of the ration means more consistent intake of additives.
Nutribeef 50- 17073
Nutribeef 50 is a high calcium suspended liquid protein supplement designed for growing/finishing feedlot cattle primarily on high grain rations.
Product Features:
- 50 percent crude protein.
- Made with Louisiana cane molasses.
- Supplies supplemental protein in an energy rich base.
- Contains high levels of major and trace minerals.
- Fortified with vitamins A-D-E, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and salt.
- Highly stable suspension liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations being fed a high grain ration.
- Added sugars enhance rumen function.
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
- Less sorting of the ration means more consistent intake of additives.
Probeef 50- 6430
QLF Probeef 50 is a high calcium suspended liquid protein supplement designed for growing/finishing feedlot cattle primarily on high grain rations.
Product Features:
- 50 percent crude protein.
- Supplies supplemental protein in an energy rich base.
- Contains high levels of major and trace minerals.
- Fortified with vitamins A-D-E, calcium, phosphorus, potassium, and salt
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations being fed a high grain ration.
- Added sugars enhance rumen function.
- Less sorting of the ration means more consistent intake of additives.
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio by improved intakes and increased gains.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Co-Product Balancers
Core Max 10- 7910
QLF CORE MAX 10 is designed to balance feedlot beef rations when co-products from the corn processing industry are fed to growing-finishing cattle.
Product Features:
- 10 percent crude protein.
- High calcium liquid supplement; No added supplemental phosphorus.
- Fortified to provide 100% NRC recommendation for trace minerals and Vitamins A, D, & E when fed at recommended levels.
- Low inclusion rate, .8 lbs/hd/day.
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations that utilize corn-processing co-products (corn distillers grain or corn gluten feed).
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Economic feeding rate supplies required supplementation while limiting excess phosphorus into the environment.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Core Max 20- 7920
QLF CORE MAX 20 is designed to balance feedlot beef rations when co-products from the corn processing industry are fed to growing-finishing cattle.
Product Features:
- 20 percent crude protein.
- High calcium liquid supplement; No added supplemental phosphorus.
- Fortified to provide 100% NRC recommendation for trace minerals and Vitamins A, D, & E when fed at recommended levels.
- Low inclusion rate, .8 lbs/hd/day.
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations that utilize corn-processing co-products (corn distillers grain or corn gluten feed).
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Economic feeding rate supplies required supplementation while limiting excess phosphorus into the environment.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Core Max 30- 7930
QLF CORE MAX 30 is designed to balance feedlot beef rations when co-products from the corn processing industry are fed to growing-finishing cattle.
Product Features:
- 30 percent crude protein.
- High calcium liquid supplement; No added supplemental phosphorus.
- Fortified to provide 100% NRC recommendation for trace minerals and Vitamins A, D, & E when fed at recommended levels.
- Low inclusion rate, .8 lbs/hd/day.
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations that utilize corn-processing co-products (corn distillers grain or corn gluten feed).
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Economic feeding rate supplies required supplementation while limiting excess phosphorus into the environment.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Core Max 40- 7940
QLF CORE MAX 40 is designed to balance feedlot beef rations when co-products from the corn processing industry are fed to growing-finishing cattle.
Product Features:
- 40 percent crude protein.
- High calcium liquid supplement; No added supplemental phosphorus.
- Fortified to provide 100% NRC recommendation for trace minerals and Vitamins A, D, & E when fed at recommended levels.
- Low inclusion rate, .8 lbs/hd/day.
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations that utilize corn-processing co-products (corn distillers grain or corn gluten feed).
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Economic feeding rate supplies required supplementation while limiting excess phosphorus into the environment.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Core Max 50- 7950
QLF CORE MAX 50 is designed to balance feedlot beef rations when co-products from the corn processing industry are fed to growing-finishing cattle.
Product Features:
- 50 percent crude protein.
- High calcium liquid supplement; No added supplemental phosphorus.
- Fortified to provide 100% NRC recommendation for trace minerals and Vitamins A, D, & E when fed at recommended levels.
- Low inclusion rate, .8 lbs/hd/day.
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations that utilize corn-processing co-products (corn distillers grain or corn gluten feed).
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Economic feeding rate supplies required supplementation while limiting excess phosphorus into the environment.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Core Flex 10- 7911
QLF Core Flex 10 is designed to balance feedlot beef rations when co-products from the corn processing industry are fed to growing-finishing cattle.
Product Features:
- 10 percent crude protein.
- High calcium liquid supplement; No added supplemental phosphorus.
- Fortified to provide 100% NRC recommendation for trace minerals and Vitamins A, D, & E when fed at recommended levels.
- Low inclusion rate, .8 lbs/hd/day.
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations that utilize corn-processing co-products (corn distillers grain or corn gluten feed).
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Economic feeding rate supplies required supplementation while limiting excess phosphorus into the environment.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Core Flex 20- 7921
QLF Core Flex 20 is designed to balance feedlot beef rations when co-products from the corn processing industry are fed to growing-finishing cattle.
Product Features:
- 20 percent crude protein.
- High calcium liquid supplement; No added supplemental phosphorus.
- Fortified to provide 100% NRC recommendation for trace minerals and Vitamins A, D, & E when fed at recommended levels.
- Low inclusion rate, .8 lbs/hd/day.
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations that utilize corn-processing co-products (corn distillers grain or corn gluten feed).
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Economic feeding rate supplies required supplementation while limiting excess phosphorus into the environment.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Core Flex 30- 7931
QLF Core Flex 30 is designed to balance feedlot beef rations when co-products from the corn processing industry are fed to growing-finishing cattle.
Product Features:
- 30 percent crude protein.
- High calcium liquid supplement; No added supplemental phosphorus.
- Fortified to provide 100% NRC recommendation for trace minerals and Vitamins A, D, & E when fed at recommended levels.
- Low inclusion rate, .8 lbs/hd/day.
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations that utilize corn-processing co-products (corn distillers grain or corn gluten feed).
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Economic feeding rate supplies required supplementation while limiting excess phosphorus into the environment.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Core Flex 40- 7941
QLF Core Flex 40 is designed to balance feedlot beef rations when co-products from the corn processing industry are fed to growing-finishing cattle.
Product Features:
- 40 percent crude protein.
- High calcium liquid supplement; No added supplemental phosphorus.
- Fortified to provide 100% NRC recommendation for trace minerals and Vitamins A, D, & E when fed at recommended levels.
- Low inclusion rate, .8 lbs/hd/day.
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations that utilize corn-processing co-products (corn distillers grain or corn gluten feed).
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Economic feeding rate supplies required supplementation while limiting excess phosphorus into the environment.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
Core Flex 50- 7951
QLF Core Flex 50 is designed to balance feedlot beef rations when co-products from the corn processing industry are fed to growing-finishing cattle.
Product Features:
- 50 percent crude protein.
- High calcium liquid supplement; No added supplemental phosphorus.
- Fortified to provide 100% NRC recommendation for trace minerals and Vitamins A, D, & E when fed at recommended levels.
- Low inclusion rate, .8 lbs/hd/day.
- Xanthan Gum suspended liquid supplement.
Product Benefits:
- Balances growing/finishing feedlot rations that utilize corn-processing co-products (corn distillers grain or corn gluten feed).
- Improves feed utilization, allowing more extensive use of available feedstuffs.
- Lowers feed to gain ratio through improved intakes and increased gains.
- Reduces ration sorting for more consistent intake of nutrients & additives.
- Promotes overall animal health & immunity through vitamin & trace mineral fortification.
- Economic feeding rate supplies required supplementation while limiting excess phosphorus into the environment.
- Conveniently force-fed in a bunk ration.
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Buyers Card – What is the most you can pay for feeder cattle?
| Starting Weight | lbs |
| Corn Price /bu | $ |
| Yardage | $ |
| Interest Rate | % |
| Vet, Med, Misc | $ |
| LC Futures minus Basis View Live Cattle Futures Quotes |
$ |
Performance Level:
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| End Wt. | |
| Death Loss | |
| Expected Sale Date | |
| Total Cost of Gain |
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The expected performance is calculated from closeouts on over 1.4 million head of cattle from 2006-2016, but this should not be construed as a guarantee of performance for your cattle. If you do not have records on your own cattle, we would recommend that you use the Conservative setting for the Performance Level.
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Frequently Asked Questions
What options do I have with ionophores in liquid supplement?
Virtually any approved feed additive can be simply and accurately delivered to the ration via liquid supplements.
- Rumensin
- Bovatec
- Cattlyst
- HeifermaX/MGA
- Tylan
- Zinpro·180
- Zinpro Availa·4
- ClariFly
- Micro Aid
- Celmanax· Liquid
Can QLF Feedlot products be fed free choice?
NO. Absolutely not. QLF feedlot products must be mixed in or top dressed on high grain rations for cattle weighing 600 pounds or more.
Will QLF Feedlot products pump in cold weather?
Yes, this is one thing that is unique about QLF products vs. the competition. We use products in Minnesota and North Dakota with minus 30 degrees or more with no pumping problems. However, do use reasonable precautions with set-up design.
Will QLF Starter products pump in cold weather?
Yes, but keep in mind the problem usually occurs in the line to the pump and/or in the pump. The cold air will penetrate the small areas such as the line much more quickly than the large volume of product in the storage tank.
Can QLF products be mixed in a tank with other products?
No. Storage tanks that have been used for competitor’s product should be cleaned before putting in ours. If there is a buildup of sludge in the tank from years past, and we put a good quality feed on top of it, problems could come from feeding the sludge.
What is the shelf life of QLF feedlot products?
We recommend turning inventory every 60 days or less. This is more important during the summer, since the heat inside storage tanks can cause added stress on the gums that suspend the ingredients.
What is the recommended procedure for adding our feedlot products to a TMR?
Load the corn first, then the liquid, and finally the roughage. This allows the liquid to be pre-mixed with the corn, which will in turn more easily mix with the roughage.
Will all the solid ingredients in a product like Beef Starter stay in suspension?
Yes. We do recommend turning inventory in a 60 day period.
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