Inexpensive way to add fat to feed.

[Hamhock]

I have used heavyweight with great success over the years but I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions for a cheaper alternative.

[Macs B]

I have also had great results with Heavy Weight supplement. In order to stretch it and reduce some costs for FFA kids I mix break it down with a 1/3 mix of bulk pancake flour. It brings my price per pound for the supplement down from 1.53 to 1.19. It accounts for a savings of just over 35.00 on the hundred weight of supplement.

[Tdgross89]

Macs B - Doesn't that just dilute down the amount of fat per pound fed? Therefore you need to feed more of that mixture to get the same amount of fat?

Purely from a cost perspective, when I looked a few years ago, it was cheaper to feed MooreFat than any of the others. They suggest feeding much less of it than the other products do so on a per feeding basis, it was cheapest. My personal favorite is to feed Sumo. The pigs seem to eat it well, and I am able to get the cover that I want. Maybe not the cheapest, but the cheapest isn't always the most effective. Heavy Weight is also a supplement that I have used and liked.

[Hamhock]

Thanks for the replies. Anyone else have any input.

[Elliott]

I don't have a suggestion. I hope someone does. I do have a comment though. We've been showing pigs for about 5 years now. Still have so much to learn. When we first started out though I'd come on here and read the posts and folks would suggest vegetable oil for fat or cake mixes for pigs that weren't eating and needed to make weight. Not knowing anything about pigs I'd think "oh that's great info". What I have come to realize though is there really isn't a cheap route. To buy enough vegetable oil or cake mix to last for as long as a bucket of Moorfat would be far more expensive than a product that was specifically engineered/designed for the pig's dietary needs. There's probably exceptions to what I'm saying......... and I'm not saying that I haven't/wouldn't give vegetable oil/cake mix........ just saying that sometimes to do the job right you just got to accept the cost.

[mit]

We offer a feed co-op at our local high school for all the county exhibitors if they wish to participate. Sometimes we mix 10 tons at a time and all the exhibitors and their families pitch in to help grind or bag feed. The cost varies from $10-13/50# depending on ingredient costs.

We use cooking oil that we get from local restaurants for free. It takes approximately 180# of cooking oil per 2 ton batch.

[LBsvail]

Go to your local Feed Mill or Coop and get some Soy Oil very high in fat and it is dirt cheap....Start feeding 2 oz a day it has worked well for us..

[SPRINGBRANCH]

2 products that i've had the very best success with #1 Lindners Full Figure. My pigs jump all over it, much more than Moor Fat http://lindnerfeeds.mybigcommerce.com/full-figure/ and #2 Dyne, a high calorie high fat supplement that seems addicting to my pigs. https://www.valleyvet.com/ct_detail.htm ... b0d0204ae5 now i feed wet, so we add the feed and supplements in a bucket, put just enough water to mix everything nicely, let it sit until the next feeding and it's really a mushy feed not a truly wet slop.