April/May 2024 NEBRASKA CATTLEMAN 17 1/2 page horizontal 4 color Nebraska Cattleman Holdrege Equipment April/May 2024 2000 Series Quad Auger TMR Mixer Meet the NEW 2000 Series Mixer Features: • Solid stainless steel troughs and lower sides • No liners, lower mixer weight, more feed capacity • Load bars replace load cells • Improved weighing consistency/reliability • Advanced hydrostatic drive with gravity discharge • Wider door improves feed-out speed • Promotes efficient, one-pass feeding Patented Ribbon Augers: • Effective for all rations • Lower feed pressure • Open augers improve mixing performance, speed and capacity • Faster mix times, lower total feeding time and less fuel saves money Orbit Evo Intelligent Controller: • User-friendly single joystick controls all box functions • Balances hydraulic, truck and mixer functions • Optimizes horsepower draw, mixing and feed-out speeds • Monitors all systems – hydraulics, truck ECM and mixer components The BEST is now even BETTER BETTER MIX • BETTER RESULTS BETTER RESULTS BETTER BOTTOM LINE Holdrege Equipment 1009 W U.S. Hwy 6, Holdrege, NE 68949 888-995-9565 | www.HOLDREGEEQUIPMENT.com Contact the Holdrege Equipment Sales Team for a demo TODAY! “If we’re being strategic about processing, best practices always apply,” Woiwode adds. “Avoid excessive use of handling tools as we don’t want cattle moving faster than a walk if we can help it. They’re not athletes and their respiratory capacity, especially those close to finishing, is really limited, so they don’t handle excessive activity really well.” Animal Nutrition and Heat Stress Since cattle are ruminants, they generate heat during ruminant fermentation and using energy for growth. “A common misnomer is we focus on the fat cattle during heat stress, but the ones that are at most risk for heat stress are those cattle that are transitioning to increasing energy in their diets,” Lukasiewicz explains. “They are going up on elevated energy levels, and it’s actually the metabolic heat that leads to a lot of our heat-stress deaths at the end of the day.” For prolonged heat stress events, both Lukasiewicz and Woiwode recommend working with your nutritionist to consider changing diets to include energy sources that are easier to digest and increase throughput, producing less metabolic heat. “Consistency is really important for cattle and their potential meat quality,” Woiwode expresses. “Big changes, either to their diets or in temperature, are both stressors. So having a strategy and working with a nutritionist to perhaps transition to a lower energy ration in anticipation of a heat event would be advisable.” ~NC~ Being proactive rather than reactive is important to avoid any “train wrecks” when it comes to heat stress. The following valuable resources can help. • Heat Stress Mitigation in Feedlot Cattle webinar https://beef.unl.edu/webinar/heat-stress-mitigationfeedlot-cattle • “Feedlot Heat Stress Information and Management Guide” https://extensionpublications.unl.edu/assets/ pdf/g2266.pdf • “Managing Feedlot Heat Stress,” UNL NebGuide, Sept. 2007 https://extensionpubs.unl.edu/publication/10 • Nebraska BQA Extreme Heat resources at https://bqa. unl.edu/resource-library • Nebraska Beef Quality Assurance – https://bqu.unl.edu • Jesse Fulton, M.S., Extension Educator – Director of Neb. Beef Quality Assurance. Jesse.fulton@unl.edu Resources
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