The Four Season Company

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The Four Season Company

• 4 Season is a dedicated animal nutrition company,
  specialising in the manufacturing of high quality
  products for the Australian Farmer.

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National Sales ManagerJames Dickson
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SUPPLEMENTRY FEEDING

• Supplementation is designed to provide livestock
  with proteins, minerals and vitamins that are
  lacking in Australian pastures.
• Supplementation should be an important part of
  any farm management program.
• Remember supplements are not a feed only minimal
  amounts needed to get results.
• Pasture deficiencies can occur at any time of the
  year.
• Protein energy deficiencies in the drier
  months.
• Trace element mineral deficiencies in the wet
  season.

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Supplementation

• We supplement to maximize our animals potential
  to make money.
• Supplements fill in our pastures nutritional
  deficiencies.
• -When its green Vitamins Minerals
• -When its dry Protein Vitamins Minerals

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What supplement to use?

• The three main types of supplements are
• -Loose mixes
• -Liquid Feeds
• -Blocks
• Each product is designed to suit a different
  condition
• Out of the three Blocks are the easiest, safest
  most cost efficient way to supplement all your
  stock.

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What Protein Mineral Supplements Do?

• Improve conception rates
• Increase birth weights
• Improve colostrum production
• Improve offspring survival rates
• Increase animal resistance to internal parasites

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Protein Supplements

• Will help keep tensile strength in your wool.
• Will help keep your animals cycling.
• Will help stock survive on the poorest pastures.
• Will help maintain or gain weight on most
  pastures.

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Why We Must Supplement In Dry Times.

• To make more money
• When un-supplemented dry feed stubble are very
  hard for stock to digest.
• - Bound up
• - Fiber in the dung
• Sheep and cattle are grass factories. The more
  grass they eat, the more weight they will put on.
  

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Bypass Protein promotes feed intake and weight
gain
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• Questions you need to ask yourself when wanting
  to supplement.
• What am I trying to achieve?
• What stock am I feeding?
• How long am I going to have to feed?
• What infrastructure do I need?
• What is my budget?

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365 Pasture TrialsGlen Innes NSW

• 1999 Pasture fed beef weight gains using
  customized mineral blocks.
• Property Furraccabad Station.
• Principle Mr Bill McNamarra
• Objective
• Trial to determine if pasture supplementation
  with mineral blocks had a financial benefit to
  grass fed cattle.

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• Method
• 4 groups of cattle separated into 4 paddocks.
  Two groups were supplemented, two groups
  un-supplemented. The following gives a
  description of how the trial was set up.

No. of Steers Supplemented? No. days in Pasture
Paddock 1 31 No 75
Paddock 2 32 Yes 75
Paddock 3 32 Yes 75
Paddock 4 10 No 75
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Results
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• Paddocks 1, 2 and 3 were identical as far as
  pasture quality was concerned.
• Supplemented groups in paddocks 2 and 3 gained
  106kgs of beef, while unsupplemented cattle in
  paddock 1 gained 78kgs of beef.
• Paddock 4 which was a prime paddock usually used
  for weaners, gave an average weight gain of 97kgs
  in this unsupplemented group.

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Summary
Paddock 1 Un-supplemented Introduced body weight Finished body weight 400kg 478kg 78kg gain / 75 days 1.04 kg / day
Paddock 2 Supplemented Introduced body weight Finished body weight 400kg 506kg 106kg gain / 75 days 1.41 kg / day
Paddock 3 Supplemented Introduced body weight Finished body weight 400kg 506kg 106kg gain / 75 days 1.41 kg / day
Paddock 4 Un-supplemented Introduced body weight Finished body weight 400kg 497kg 97kg gain / 75 days 1.29 kg / day
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• The average supplementation cost for 75 days
  7.50 per head
• On Average, Steers gained an extra 28kg over 75
  days on similar pasture when supplemented, over
  cattle not supplemented.

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SUPPLEMENTING SULPHUR

• Sulphur is a key element in ruminant digestion
  and production.
• If cattle or sheep are deficient in sulphur the
  digestion process is less efficient, resulting in
  poor feed conversion.
• Sulphur stimulates the rumen and helps to
  optimise feed conversion.

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SULPHUR SORGHUM FEEDING

• Sulphur supplements help combat prussic acid
  toxicity caused by grazing forage sorghum.
• By supplementing sorghum grazing stock, you will
  see a significant weight gain and reduced prussic
  acid toxicity.
• Feeding Four Seasons Sulphur 16 at any stage of
  the sorghum foraging will be beneficial.

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SULPHUR PARASITES

• Claims have been made about the medicinal
  properties of this element.
• Anecdotal evidence strongly suggests that Sulphur
  in higher levels in supplements aids in external
  parasite control.
• There is also evidence that continued use has a
  positive impact on internal worm burdens.

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SULPHUR 16

• Has the highest sulphur content (16) of any
  block on the market.
• Also contains 20 cotton seed meal, which is a
  valuable bypass protein.
• These two key ingredients combine to make a
  terrific block to be fed out all year round.
• There is a noticeable increase in weight gains of
  stock on this product at any time of the year.

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The secret tosupplementation

• Identifying your pasture deficiencies
• Choosing the right supplement
• Starting early.
• Early Supplementation will ensure your animals
  maintain condition rather than loose it.
• If you start to supplement feed too late, you
  risk having stock loose condition, which results
  in playing catch up all season.
• It is much more cost effective to supplement
  early and avoid livestock slipping in condition,
  than it is to try to gain lost condition.

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Tips for feeding blocks

• Choose the right block for the right stock
• Always follow feeding instructions
• Dont let blocks run out
• Get them out early

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIMEANY QUESTIONS ?