Winfort Lofts wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 9:56 am
Murray wrote: ↑Fri Nov 01, 2024 8:35 am
The thing is, let's say I am feeding peas and wheat, and you are feeding a balanced diet with emphasis on fats and energy and things.
I see a big shiny advert, telling me that their 'New product, developed by leading scientists' WILL correct the imbalances in the amino acids in my feed.
That new product must be the best thing ever, if It will 'correct' the feed, regardless of whether you are stuck in 1956 and admiring the beans you got for the season, or in 2024, and trying to decide which race mix to buy.
As the old saying goes, " There's one born ever minute".
Would I be right in thinking that you are saying that the supplement may correct the imbalance in one mix, but would either over or under correct a different mix?
Because the natural amino acids will vary from grain to grain, there is no way to know what exactly you are adding to the mix in order to benefit the system.
I say the same thing when people go mad for multivitamins, unless the body is lacking in any such vitamin, the majority of that will be flushed through the system, and the body will only take in what it is missing!
Very true Murray. As you say the body will only use any of these substances if it is need of it. If not they will just be flushed through, like throwing money down the drain.
Same as all the treatments, most are just a waste of money and do little if any good.
As far as the grains are concerned Neil there are many different seeds for different kinds of market. With barely you have grains designed for milling, malting, feed, etc. and different varieties in each sector. The cost of these seeds vary considerably depending on what they are designed for. The most expensive seeds are the ones for milling or malting. These will need the most care during the growing season and will also be dependent on the weather. The cost of production for these are a lot higher as better soil and more pesticides etc are required. Any of these once harvested and not meeting the required grade will be used as animal feed. Some of the cheaper seeds are designed for anima feed. This doesn’t mean that the grains rejected for their intended use aren’t still better quality than the lower rated grains. With the different varieties of grains they will also have a different analysis so impossible to know what the ones used in our mixes are.
This would be the same for any of the grains and not just Barley. I only used that as an example as Neil had mentioned it.
So unless you were to do a scientific analysis of every bag of corn you bought you wouldn’t know what the real analysis is.
Back just enjoying club racing for the time being.
