RumenWorks Nutrition
Green Feed Lick
The RumenWorks Nutrition Green Feed Lick range aims to help you gain the most returns from your pasture investment. By supplementing livestock on green pastures, the utilisation of the pasture will be improved and can lead to heavier stocking rates.
Our Green Feed Licks also aim to help you manage the differing problems of green pastures such as grass tetany, bloat and poorly producing animals.
- Improved feed conversion
- Improved weight gains
- Increased return on investment
- Soil type specific
- Scientifically balanced energy
- Essential nutrients
- Includes Thiamine (Vitamin B7 ) to aid in preventing PEM
Reach out to livestock nutritionist Ross Gibson on 0447 971 836 for more information about our range of products.
Nutritional Information:
| Macro Nutrients | g/kg |
| Calcium | 130 |
| Magnesium | 99 |
| Phosphorus | 18.7 |
| Sulphur | 47.4 |
| Sodium | 82.68 |
| Carbohydrates | 174.2 |
Consumption Rate:
Cattle and sheep consumption rates can vary due to individual conditions on property, and in the animal. As a guide to attain protection against grass tetany, the following dose rates should be used as a base point.
| Dose Rate | Cattle | Sheep |
| 200kg | 50g/day | 30g/adult head/day |
| 400kg | 100g/day | |
| 600kg | 150g/day |
Directions:
Place in free draining containers where stock gather regularly. Preferably 1 feeder trough per 50 head of sheep and 1 feeder per 25 grown head of cattle. Spread the troughs around the paddock and near watering points. Cattle and sheep will lick as required to regulate the intake of minerals in accordance with their metabolic requirement.
Best results are achieved when sheep and cattle are started on Green Feed Lick 5-7 days prior to introduction to fresh green paddocks. This is particularly critical if protection from grass tetany and control of bloat is required.
In high pressure situations such as bloat and grass tetany, the product must be continuously available.
Soil Specific:
RumenWorks Nutrition Green Feed Licks are different from most others on offer as we believe that soil types play a large role in nutrient uptake within the plant, and therefore the intake of the plant nutrition by the grazing animal.
RumenWorks Nutrition Green Feed Licks are designed according to specific soil types and aim to give your grazing animal the best supplementary support whilst grazing on green feed or planted fodder crops such as oats, winter wheat, ryegrass, forage sorghum and lucerne.
- Heavy soils: RumenWorks Nutrition Green Feed Lick H (Orange Label)
- Extra heavy soils: RumenWorks Nutrition Green Feed Lick X (Green Label) Also available with Biotin for hoof help and to help reduce the risk of lameness.
Withholding Periods:
- Nil
Trialled, tested and validated:
Click here to view our Green Feed Lick trials and results.
What our clients are saying
There is no doubt our lambs benefit with extra weight gains using RumenWorks Bloat Feed Lick. We find using the RumenWorks product helps us get our lambs to market that couple of weeks quicker, which can make a big difference at the end of the lamb season.
We put RumenWorks Pre-Lambing Joining Lick out 6 weeks prior to lambing and leave out for 3 weeks into lambing. We have a big improvement in reduced birthing losses and pregnancy toxemia in the ewes, and increased lamb survival. This is a product I would not be without.
We have been using RumenWorks’ sheep products for 5 years now, including Green Feed Lick, Grain Assist Pellet and Performance Plus Pellet. The technical input and support provided by Ross and his team is highly valuable. The Grain Assist pellet has become a permanent inclusion into our program. We use it in combination with oats and barley to imprint feeding in lambs leading into weaning and then to set up gut health for life in lambs in the immediate post-weaning period. As a result of implementing this weaning program, the growth rates and overall animal health of our weaners has improved considerably. Amelie Poll Dorsets strongly recommends Rumenworks Animal Nutrition, with their range of products and technical service.
Our Autumn drop lambs that go to the domestic market have a target weight of 50-52kgs, then the winter drop lambs go to export with a target weight of 65-70kgs. Once you understand how the gut works and how important micronutrients are it makes a big difference to how you feed your lambs. Having the mineral component of the diet correct using RumenWorks Green Feed Lick or Sheep Grain Assist Pellets can mean the difference of a conversion of 5 to 1 verses 8 to 1. What we really like about the RumenWorks Green Feed Lick is that it is quite incredible how the animal will decide if it’s required or not. You can go for a month and the usage of the lick can be minimal then you have a change of weather or paddock conditions and they just go for it because they actually need it.
We have been using RumenWorks products for two years and have been impressed with the improvement in our calves when we wean and the health and high reproductive health of our cows. Ross Gibson has been so helpful with his advice and support of our enterprise, which has endured many varied weather anomalies during this time. We cannot thank him enough and look forward to continuing to work with him in the future.
Investing in the feed mixer and nutrition advice has paid off in increased weight gains, as well as business resilience. With Ross’s help we feel confident for the future, because another drought is bound to happen. Heifers are also on a RumenWorks lick to help get them up to breeding weight, about 310kg, and they have access to a RumenWorks lick at calving. We believe that helps them recover from calving and get back into calf down the track. We’re constantly changing the ration with Ross Gibson’s recommendations, to keep the cows in good condition.
We run 200 Autumn calving Angus cows with the on-set of cold and frost. The feed stifles in the Upper Murray so we are always pushed with grass tetany. With the use of RumenWorks Green Feed Lick we minimised the losses and found that the cows would milk better in the conditions and the calves did not have a set-back during the colder months.
Making nutrition a priority at an early stage and focusing on high quality genetics, means our cattle are thriving, despite poor seasonal conditions over the past five years. The key to achieving that quick growth is nutrition, and by using an automatic feed mixer, along with recommendations from livestock nutritionist Ross Gibson. Using a ration of rolled wheat or barley, soybean meal and hay, along with a RumenWorks supplement in a long trough has allowed us to finish cattle despite the drought. The higher level of nutrition begins at weaning. We yard wean for at least a fortnight onto grain and the rumen lick, which gets their rumen working, and those cows rumen will be fully developed to set them up for the rest of their lives, so they should be able to adapt a lot quicker to changing conditions.
This is the best lamb marking we have ever had with 178% marked. We had fewer ewes to pull, and we had even fewer poddy lambs to raise. We attribute this great result to constant use of RumenWorks Green Feed Lick, RumenWorks Pre Joining Lick and RumenWorks Pre Lambing Lick. We also believe the constant supply of a small amount of grain with RumenWorks Sheep Grain Assist Pellet in feeders and rough hay has been worthwhile. All this goes to help us get the best out of our good pastures.
