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How To Mix Feed Rations With The Pearson Square: Grains, Protein, Calcium, Phosphorous, Balance, & More
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A step-by-step guide to formulating and mixing your own animal feeds. Discusses various animal digestive systems and feeds appropriate for each, the different types of protein and what which ones are useful to your critters, how to decipher ingredients on a feed bag label, instructions for developing your own feed rations, and the cost effectiveness of doing it yourself.
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Leigh Tate
Leigh Tate has always loved living close to the land. From the back-to-the-land movement to the modern homesteading movement, the agrarian lifestyle is the one she says feels like home. She and her husband currently homestead five acres in the foothills of the Southern Appalachians. Their vision is to become as self-sustaining as possible by stewarding their land, animals, and resources. Leigh's homesteading activities include gardening, food preservation, foraging, raising goats, chickens, and guinea fowl, herbs, cheese making, permaculture landscaping, spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, quilting, natural dying, soapmaking, wood cookstove cookery, and renovating their old 1920s farmhouse.
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How To Mix Feed Rations With The Pearson Square - Leigh Tate
The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos
from 5 Acres & A Dream
How To Mix Feed Rations
With The Pearson Square
grains, protein, calcium, phosphorous, balance, & more
by Leigh Tate
Kikobian Books
www.kikobian.com
Text and photos copyright © 2015-2021 by Leigh Tate.
All rights reserved. This eBook is licensed for your personal use only. It may not be re-sold or given away. Purchaser is granted permission to make one print copy for their personal preparedness files. Otherwise, except for brief quotations in reviews, no portion of this book may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form without the written permission of the author. For more information, contact Kikobian Books at info@kikobian.com.
Originally published January 3, 2015
Revised April 6, 2021
Contents
Preface
All Things Considered
Why Mix Your Own Feed Rations?
What is the Pearson Square?
Understanding Feed Bag Labels
The Right Ingredients for the Right Critter
What is Protein? Crude Protein Versus Amino Acids
Protein Content of Common (& Uncommon) Feedstuffs
Feeding to Prevent Hypocalcemia & Pregnancy Toxemia
Feeding to Prevent Urinary Calculi
Calcium & Phosphorous Content of Common (& Uncommon) Feedstuffs
How to Mix Two-Ingredient Rations
How to Mix Rations with More Than Two Ingredients
But Is It Cost Effective?
Glossary
Resources
Bibliography
About The Author
Preface
When I published 5 Acres & A Dream The Book: The Challenges of Establishing a Self-Sufficient Homestead, I described it as neither a how-to nor a why-to book. Although it contains quite a bit of practical advice about many homesteading skills, it is mostly the story of our journey toward simpler, sustainable,
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