J&N Feed and Seed is proud to offer the full line of Browning Trail Cameras to help you capture great images of the game on your property. Browning Trail Cameras have been designed with you in mind, to deliver excellent quality results in the field. Whether you are trying to capture that buck of a lifetime running down a trail, or just interested in what’s congregating around your feed blocks, Brownings line of game cameras has the features you are looking for.
All Browning Game Cameras feature incredible trigger speeds of less than one second and are capable of capturing your game in stunning HD video with sound. Imagine being able to take a 2 minute HD video clip of deer and turkey walking around on the edge of your favorite greenfield…and being able to hear what’s going on as well. That’s the Browning Trail Camera advantage!
Browning Trail Cameras offers 3 different series of trail cameras to suit the specific needs of different hunter’s requirements and function they need to perform in the field. J&N Feed and Seed in Graham, Texas, stocks the full line of Browning Trail Cameras. Stop in and pick one up today!
A Pesticide Private Applicator License Training Session is scheduled for August 23, 2017, from 8:30 am to noon in Seymore, Texas. Josh Kouns, Baylor County Agriculture Extension Agent will lead the training. The class fee is $50 and will include books and training materials. Space is limited, so sign up today by calling 940-889-5581.
What: Pesticide Private Applicator License Training Session When: Wednesday, August 23, 2017, 8:30 am to Noon Where: Texas A&M Agrilife Extension Service
500 N Main St. Seymour, Texas 76380
940-889-5581
Who needs a Pesticide Private Applicator License? A private pesticide applicator is someone who uses or supervises the use of restricted-use or state-limited-use pesticides or regulated herbicides to produce an agricultural commodity on:
Personally owned property
Rented property
Property owned by his or her employer
Property under his or her general control
The property of another person if applied without compensation, other than the trading of personal services between producers of agricultural commodities.
Better management of self-fed supplements could improve consumption and optimize performance.
Self-fed supplements are commonly used to deliver essential nutrients to cattle and to meet their nutritional requirements. However, use of a self-fed supplement does not translate to a self-managed supplementation program. Proper management of self-fed supplements is important to achieve desired intake and cattle performance goals.
One of the biggest challenges producers face with self-fed supplements is consumption,” says Christina Hayes, Ph.D., beef product manager with Purina Animal Nutrition. “When intake isn’t within the expected range, cattle performance may suffer. For optimal performance, management of self-fed supplements is essential.”
Many things can influence consumption, from forage quality and amount to supplement location and water availability. But you can take steps to help manage supplements and optimize intake.
The first step to becoming a better supplement manager begins with measuring intake.
Determining Consumption
“Calculating consumption can help you get a baseline intake for your herd, which you can then compare to target intake levels for the supplement,” says Hayes. “If your herd’s intake is below or above target intake levels, then you know it’s time to make adjustments.”
The following calculation can help you measure herd intake:
(Pounds of supplement distributed / # of cattle) / # days supplement was available
When making this calculation, don’t forget that calves will consume some supplement as well.
“If a supplement is not being consumed at target intake levels, it’s time to start troubleshooting,” says Hayes. “What is the forage quality? Where is the feeder located? Have there been weather challenges? What is the overall feeding program?”
If consumption is a challenge, there are strategies you can implement to help achieve the desired intake.
Managing Supplements
Implementing some simple strategies can go a long way toward ideal supplement consumption.
Here are a few tips:
Look for a high-quality supplement that includes protein, energy, calcium, phosphorus and trace minerals
It is best to start supplementing early to ensure cattle requirements are being met. If you wait too long to supplement and cows have to play nutritional catch-up, you may experience supplement overconsumption.
Initially, place supplements near a water source or in loafing or grazing areas. Cattle frequently visit those spots, giving them more opportunity to consume as they adjust to using the supplements. As the cattle become more comfortable with supplements, you can gradually move supplements further from those areas to entice them to graze underutilized pasture.
Ensure fresh, cool water is available, preferably in the shade during the warm, summer months. As temperature and humidity rise, cattle will require more water. Poor water quality, or lack of water, can cause cattle to go off feed quickly, which can limit feed intake and overall cattle performance.
Do not move a full bulk feeder. The feed may pack, which can compromise flow, especially if the feed is oily.
Clean feeder troughs regularly to remove any compromised product and help keep product fresh. When it rains, feed behind an adjustable gate can become wet, causing feed to swell, and preventing flow of fresh feed. Removing wet feed will also prevent mold and rot.
For supplements with Intake Modifying Technology, consumption will adjust with changes in forage quantity and quality. Expect higher consumption with lower quality/quantity forage and lower consumption with higher quality/quantity forage. Be aware that in times of lower quality/quantity forage, cattle may consume supplements rapidly.
Here are some general rules of thumb by self-fed product:
Wind & Rain Storm Mineral:
Put fresh, non-medicated mineral out once per week.
Use a covered mineral feeder to help protect the mineral.
Know if your mineral is complete or non-complete. Complete minerals include salt, which helps drive intake.
Accuration Block or Tub Supplement:
In contrast to a plastic tub, blocks have corrugated cardboard sides. Initially, in smaller pastures, more than one big block can be placed in a feeding location. When consumption is determined, then the blocks can be relocated or separated.
Cows per block is a function of block size and pasture size.
500 lb. block: One block per 20 to 25 cows
200 lb. block: One block per 10 to 15 cows
Accuration Liquid Supplement:
All storage tanks and lick tanks must be cleaned prior to adding liquid.
At the end of the feeding season, tip tanks on their sides so the remaining liquid will flow out from the wheel slot. This prevents the remaining liquid from gelling, separating or molding inside the tank and keeps rain water from entering the tank.
Accuration Liquid is a suspension product. Without agitation, it can become thicker over time, so it is important to move the liquid on a regular basis to maintain the free-flowing state. If forage quality is meeting cattle requirements and liquid intake is low, it is a good practice to more the lick wheels manually. That should be done weekly to keep the product from thickening in the tank.
Driving performance
No matter the product form, a self-fed supplement should not be approached with a “set it and forget it” strategy. “Small things like adjusting tub location and cleaning out a feeder can work together to help you achieve desired intake levels,” says Hayes. “And more desirable consumption can, potentially, lead to improved cattle performance.”
The extra time spent calculating supplement consumption and making adjustments may be well worth it.
Article Attributed to Purina Mills and Christina Hayes, Ph. D.
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J&N Feed and Seed is your source for Rio Gameloads! Rio Game Load shot shells present an affordable choice for game and target shooting and we’ve got a great selection right here in Graham, Texas! Whether you’re looking for 12 gauge, 20 gauge or something different, we’ve got what you need this hunting season.
Rio Game Loads combine state of the art components and over 100 years of technical know-how to produce the perfect load for upland hunting applications. From the diminutive 2 1/2″ .410 to the hard hitting 3″ 12 gauge turkey load, Rio’s lead game line combines consistency and reliability in every shell, to bring unparalleled performance to the field.
12 Gauge Game Loads come in a wide range of choices – 1oz. to 1 3/4 oz payloads of game-stopping lead, in shot sizes 4, 5, 6, 7 1/2, 8 and 9. Rio game loads combine the company’s own high quality, proprietary components and a century of ammunition manufacturing expertise for a lethal combination of modern technology and old world experience.
Pick up your Rio Gameloads and all your hunting supplies at J&N Feed and Seed.
The MOJO Dove has been one of the great success stories in all of hunting having revolutionized the way we hunt doves. With its realistic body, its large and practically unstoppable direct drive motor, highly reflective aluminum wings and rugged, dependable operation, it quickly took the market, making the name “MOJO” synonymous with “quality and success”. At J&N Feed and Seed, we carry three different models of Mojo Dove Decoys. Choose from the Mojo Voodoo Dove, The Mojo Outdoors Wind Dove or the Mojo Clip-On Decoy.
Mojo Outdoors Mojo Voodoo Dove
Battery-operated, spinning-wing action
Realistic design with magnetically connected wings
Includes steel support pole
Redesigned with a larger, more realistic body and more correct landing position, this field-proven winner also eliminates tough thumbscrews with time-saving, hassle-free magnetically connected wings. Super-realistic design with trademark Mojo spinning-wing action that’s proven to bring in birds. Operates up to 16 hours on four AA batteries (not included). Includes steel support pole.
Mojo Outdoors Wind Dove
Wings spin in the slightest breeze
No need for batteries
Attracts doves from a distance
Mojo’s new version of their popular dove decoy. The wings spin in the slightest breeze without the need for batteries and attracts doves from a distance. The realistic decoys utilizes the patented breast peg design and includes a support pole.
Mojo Outdoors Clip-on Dove Decoys 4-Pack
Super-realistic with true-to-life paint schemes
Patented system mounts decoys on almost any support
Mounts to limbs, branches, poles, posts or wires
Mojo’s patented breast peg mounting system and clothes-pin adapter lets you mount these decoys on just about any support, including limbs, branches, poles, posts or wires. These hard-body decoys are super-realistic with true-to-life paint schemes. Using these decoys in conjunction with a Mojo Motorized Decoy adds true realism to your spread.
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The age old question, how to get deer to your feeder? Most deer are not used to seeing protein pellets. They must be trained to recognize them as food and to eat them out of a feeder. It is best to start a supplemental feeding program when typical food sources (farm crops, natural vegetation, new food plots or even acorns) are no longer in abundance, such as during winter or drought conditions.
Corn is extremely low in the nutrients necessary to grow big antlers. In addition, corn can founder and even kill deer if too much is consumed at one time. But when safely used in moderation, it is ideal for drawing deer to an area and training them to eat pellets.
Choose an area where traffic is good, and then follow these steps:
Set up a spin feeder to throw out 1-2 pounds of corn every 6 hours, or spread it by hand using gloves or a scoop to limit human scent. This safe amount will attract them to the area you want to feed. Be sure to have at least one feeding in the middle of the night. Continue this until deer are consistently coming to the area to eat every day. This may take several weeks, depending on deer density, time of year and availability of other foods.
Once deer are consistently coming to the area daily looking for corn, set up a free-choice feeder filled with corn. Hand-toss corn on the ground around the feeder. When you observe deer consistently eating out of the free-choice feeder, stop hand-tossing corn.
Once deer are eating corn out of the feeder for at least one week, change the self-feeder mixture to 1/3 Deer Chow® and 2/3 corn for at least a week so the deer can get accustomed to eating pellets. Make sure they clean up the pellets before replacing the mix. If they refuse to clean up the pellets, mix in more corn with the pellets.
After deer are cleaning up the pellets, change the mixture to ½ Deer Chow® and ½ corn for at least one week. If they continue to sort out the corn and leave the pellets, keep mixing corn in but gradually reduce the amount of corn until they have access to only pellets.
If the deer are consistently cleaning up the mixture and don’t leave any pellets, put 25 to 50 pounds of straight Deer Chow® in the free-choice feeder. NEVER fill a feeder full of pellets the first time regardless of its size – you need to leave room to mix in a little corn in case the deer regress a bit and stop eating pellets. When they are consistently eating pellets from the self-feeder, you may fill it completely with Deer Chow®.
Keep feeders clean. Remove old, wet or spoiled feed before refilling, as deer are very sensitive to odors, and damp or spoiled feed may prevent fresh feed from flowing down. Fresh feed will keep deer coming back.
Stop by J&N Feed & Seed for your deer corn and deer feed. We sell quality deer feed from Purina Mills. Looking for bulk feed and delivery, we can set you up. Give us a call today.
Livestock shows for the upcoming season are right around the corner!
Are you interested in attending livestock shows? Here are the dates and locations of several major 2017-2018 Stock Shows happening throughout Texas. Go to the links for each Stock Show to learn more about event schedules, entry forms, ticket information and more:
Quick and timely considerations for your mineral program.
If using a mineral form of fly control, consistent intake is key. Consider using Wind and Rain Storm Fly Control Mineral with Altosid (IGR) in either granular or tub form.
To help achieve consistent mineral intake, use enough mineral feeders for your herd size. A good rule is to use one feeder for every 20 to 30 head.
Make sure all cattle, including calves and timid cows, have equal access to feeders. Placing feeders in multiple locations helps provide all cattle the opportunity to consumer the mineral
Use water as a tool to adjust intake. If mineral intake is lower than desired, move feeders closer to water sources. If intake is higher than desired, move feeders further from the water.
As grasses start drying, antagonists can block absorption of minerals. If antagonists are a concern, consider using a mineral with Availa 4.
If you plan to use a mineral with chlortetracycline to control anaplasmosis, a VFD will be required.
See Purina® Outlast Supplement in action. Watch as Dr. Robert Jacobs, Purina PhD research equine nutritionist, demonstrates how a horse’s stomach would respond to a feeding of Outlast Supplement.
In this short experiment, Purina® Outlast Supplement raises the pH level of a simulated equine stomach environment from a harmful pH of 2 to a safe pH level of 6.3 in just two minutes, outperforming alfalfa and competitive products on the market. Ready to put Outlast Supplement to the test? Start your Feed Greatness™ Challenge at www.feedOutlast.com.
Welcome to the Equine Research Unit here at Purina Animal Nutrition Center. My name is Dr. Robert Jacobs, a research equine nutritionist, and today, I’m here to demonstrate our new gastric support supplement, Outlast.
Outlast is designed to provide gastric support and help comfort the horse’s stomach. The horse is an herbivore, designed to consume forages eighteen to twenty hours a day. Modern management practices, however, require that we feed our horses concentrate and meal feed them throughout the day. Outlast is designed to support the overall health of the gastric environment in the horse.
So today what we’re going to do is we’re going to demonstrate how the horse’s stomach would respond to a feeding of Outlast. In this beaker here we have a constantly churning fluid at a pH right around 2, which is the constant pH of the horse’s stomach when they’re at a fasting state. Additionally, we’ve heated this environment to approximately 37 degrees Celsius, which would be the internal body temperature of the horse.
So what we’re going to do is we’re going to take Outlast, our gastric support supplement and grind it up as you can see what we’ve done here to stimulate the chewing that the horse would do before this supplement would reach the gastric environment or into the stomach of the horse, and we’re going to put this into that gastric environment, and we’re going to show you exactly what happens to the pH.
So what I want to do is focus on this pH meter. We put this gastric buffer into this gastric environment. So what we’ll do is we’ll simply put this in here. We’ll give it a little bit of a mix, again to help stimulate what would happen in the horse’s stomach, and we’ll set this timer here to about two minutes.
We’ve done a significant amount of lab work here at the Purina Animal Nutrition Center, as well as at universities throughout the country to better understand how Outlast buffers the equine stomach. We’ve done in vitro trials similar to what you can see in this setup here as well as in vivo trials, in which we’ve fed this supplement to hundreds of horses and examined what happens with the pH of the gastric environment as well as what happens to the overall health of the horse’s stomach.
So what we’re going to do is we’ll wait until this gets to its buffering capacity at about two minutes and we’ll take another pH reading to see exactly how this gastric support supplement works.
So you can see here, after two minutes we’re going to take another pH reading on our simulated gastric environment. So, we look here at this pH meter, and you can see after only two minutes, the pH has already risen to approximately 6.3. Well above the threshold of four which we generally consider a buffered stomach environment.
Now remember, a higher pH is indicative of a lower acidity in the stomach which is what we would want to see to provide the gastric comfort and the support that Outlast is designed to do.
Outlast gastric support supplement is different from some of the other products that are currently on the market, in that it acts quicker, in only two minutes you can see the pH rose substantially; it acts longer, as we saw in our in vivo as well as our in vitro trials; and has a significantly higher buffering capacity and buffering ability, as is demonstrated here in these test tubes.
In these test tubes, you can see a representation of how much acid a single serving of any one of these supplements including Outlast is able to buffer in a simulated gastric environment. You can see here in these tubes that Outlast is able to buffer a significantly larger quantity of acid than even alfalfa or some of the other competitive products on the market as is demonstrated by these different colored tubes.
A Pesticide Private Applicator License Training Session is scheduled for August 23, 2017, from 8:30 am to noon in Seymore, Texas. Josh Kouns, Baylor County Agriculture Extension Agent will lead the training. The class fee is $50 and will include books and training materials. Space is limited, so sign up today by calling 940-889-5581.
Better management of self-fed supplements could improve consumption and optimize performance.
Texas Parks & Wildlife released the 2017 – 2018 Hunting Season dates. Check them out below. You can find more information on their website.
Livestock shows for the upcoming season are right around the corner!
Quick and timely considerations for your mineral program.