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Old 11/26/07, 12:54 PM
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Will cattle range meal hurt my llamas?

(I also posted this in the llama sticky thread)

I need to set out some range meal this winter to help my cattle stay in good condition now that the grass is losing protein content. Here is the ingredient list:
processed grain by-products, salt, roughage products, grain products, molasses, urea, calcium carbonate, forage products, plant protein products, vit A supplement, cobalt carbonate, manganese sulfate, ethylenediamine dihydriodide, animal fat preserved with ethoxyquin, zinc sulfate, copper chloride, mineral oil, magnesium oxide. Conatins 12% roughage products and is ruminant meat and bone meal free.
Crude protein is 15%
Crude fat is minimum 1%
Crude fiber max is 11%
calcium minimum is 1.25%, max is 1.75%
Phosphorus minimum is .6%
salt minimum is 23%, max is 27.5%
potassium minimum is .9%
selenium minimum is .3 PPM
vitamin A minimum is 15.000 iu/lb

The high salt concentration works to limit the daily intake of the feed. For cattle, the normal daily intake ranges from 2 to 3 lbs/ head.

I have a feeling my llamas may ignore it altogether, but if they do eat it I need to make sure that it won't make them ill or worse.
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Old 11/26/07, 05:34 PM
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Check with someone who knows more than I, but, I do know the label on my cattle feed says "do not feed to sheep-contains copper". I don't know how llamas compare to sheep, and your list of ingredients includes copper cloride.
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Old 11/30/07, 06:11 AM
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My llamas ate range cubes last winter and did just fine. Their greatest risk was trying to get in between the cows to get some! Llamas are very easy keepers as they can consume just about the same as other livestock, cows, goats and horses. They lick the salt and mineral blocks just the same too.

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Old 12/01/07, 05:06 PM
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My llamas ate range cubes last winter and did just fine. Their greatest risk was trying to get in between the cows to get some! Llamas are very easy keepers as they can consume just about the same as other livestock, cows, goats and horses. They lick the salt and mineral blocks just the same too.

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What do you mean by "range cubes"? Is that the same stuff as what I know as "range meal"? The range meal is a milled, loose feed, not cubes.
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