Feedlot
Feeding Programs for Today's Beef Producer
Optimizing performance and production is the core goal of the McNess beef feedlot programs. McNess offers feedlot products for receiving, growing and finishing cattle. Our McNess feedlot programs work with locally grown feedstuffs as well as alternative commodity feedstuffs. McNess premixes are formulated to match the nutrient needs of growing and finishing cattle fed a variety of feedstuffs. One of the premixes will work in your operation. Furst-McNess also supplies commodities such as wet and dry distiller’s grains, corn gluten feed, hominy and other feedstuffs that stretch local supplies and reduce feeding costs.
McNess offers feedlot products under the Co-Product Fortifier, Beef Balancer, Beef Developer, and Beef Starter lines. Your cattle, your feedstuffs, along with McNess premixes and commodities are all that is needed.
Co-Product Fortifier 0.5(bag and bulk)
These products are designed to be a complement to corn co-products that result from the manufacture of corn starch, corn syrup, and ethanol and are formulated to take advantage of nutrients already present in these corn co-products. Contains thiamine to help prevent nervous disorders (polioencephalomalacia – PEM) commonly associated with corn co-product diets.
Feeding at the rate of one half pound daily to feedlot cattle will provide the supplemental minerals and vitamins cattle normally require during the finishing period to optimize gain and feed efficiency.
Co-Product Fortifier 0.6(bag and bulk)
These products provide the same mineral and vitamin fortification as Co-Product Fortifier 0.5 on a daily basis with the addition of crude protein from non-protein nitrogen sources.
Feeding McNess Co-Product Fortifier 0.6 at the rate of 0.6 pounds daily to feedlot cattle will provide the supplemental minerals and vitamins cattle normally require during the finishing period to optimize gain and feed efficiency.
Beef Balancer 80 (bag)
The Balancer Products are highly fortified mineral, vitamin and protein premixes formulated specifically for feedlot cattle on high-grain rations.
Feeding at 0.5 pounds per head per day supplies the minerals and vitamins cattle normally requires to optimize gain and feed efficiency.
Beef Developers (bag)
The Developer Products are formulated to provide the extra minerals and vitamins that lightweight calves need to fortify their immune system and rapidly develop a structurally strong frame.
Feeding 0.25 pounds per head per day will supply the essential minerals and vitamins growing cattle normally require.
Beef Starter Premix (bag)
The Starter Products are designed to minimize the stress that calves experience at weaning or receiving. They are also ideal for stressed, shipped-in calves. When a ration provides a fortified mineral and vitamin package, calves experiencing weaning or shipping stress have higher feed intake, regain weight faster and respond to treatments for sickness more readily. The product contains organic trace minerals from Zinpro’s Availa 4 product to help combat stress and a high Vitamin E level to help strengthen immune function.
Feed 0.5 pounds per head per day of McNess Beef Starter (550101) for the first 28 days in the feedlot. Supplies no medication - add medication of your choice.
Feed 0.10 pounds of McNess Beef Starter-D (550121) per hundred pounds of bodyweight. A calf weighing 500 pounds should receive 0.5 pounds daily for the first 28 days in the feedlot. Deccox (decoquinate) helps prevent outbreaks of coccidiosis.
