mikey
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« on: December 23, 2007, 01:48:06 PM » |
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this is only 1 method of making ummb,there are many different ways of making ummb,this is a composition for this method.Ummb is used in goat,sheep and cattle farming,goat farmers use ummb during the rainy season with a broad spectrum dewormer as a part of their management system for controlling worms,goats are generally not given the dewormer medicine at first but later on as they get use to the ummb sticks that hang in their barn.Personally we are not using these ummb sticks because our herd is already on a maintance system,know that these ummb sticks work well for native goats held in confinement,having used them in the past. One mixes all the ingredients on a clean floor,mix well together,roll out like a stick of bamboo,one can make them a few inches round,when dried hang them in the goats barn and they will lick at them,make the first 1 with no dewormer,after the goats are use to it,make the next ones with no bone meal,add the dewormer instead,feed during the rainy season. molasses-30-50% urea-5-10% bran-15-25% copra meal-10-20% salt-5-7% bonemeal-5-7%------broad spectrum dewormer minerals-1-2% (lime) cement-5-10% as the binder molasses provides vitamins bran provides phosphorus,trace minerals,vitamins oil seed meal provides phosphorus,soluble and nonsoluble proteins bonemeal,salt.minerals provides much othe macro mineral requirements. urea provides small amounts of extra nitrogen cement acts as a binder holding everything together.
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