For Golden FLo users

I heard/read/saw/was lied to (HAHA) that for every 6lbs of feed 1oz of golden flo raises that fat content of your feed 1%??  Is this correct?  If not, please correct me.  Is this something you can use all the way through or is it best used only in the finishing stage.  I am trying to find a cheaper/more economical way to add some fat both early on with showmaster grower and later during fiinishing than using Honor Power Fuel.  With more calves to feed, looking for cheaper ways to start and finish.

It is 98% vegetable oil or something like that.  Just buy gallon jugs of vegetable oil when it is on sale.  Our cattle always turn up their noses at golden flo, but will eat feed topped with vegetable oil.

I second veggie oil.  It's more expensive but peanut oil will put on a slightly smoother finish if you can get it (I'm not sure if they sell it anywhere but the south so idk) and tastes great to them.  We have access to peanut skins, the red part on the outside of the kernel but inside the shell, which are about 70% fat and that is our fat in all of our feeds from heifers to bulls to show calves, they love it and we get it by the hopper bottom load for almost nothing

I have used the 40# jugs of soybean salad oil from Sam's club and gotten along great in the past when we did need a little extra cover on the Charolais or Simmi hfrs.  With the Angus heifers we spend more time and money trying to keep them lean enough than having to worry about getting them fat.
Ron
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We always swore by crocking 2-3 folger cans of corn & a folger can of barley, put quite a bit of golden flo (until we could stir the mix easily with a spoon) then measured out quarter and half pound baggies and froze. Each morning & evening each calf would get a 1/2 lb bag and we also used it lightly to give finish on sheep that were real lean.

We usually did this about December or January for the majors.

We fed out 5 steers in my four year show career, never could get the hair figured out  (lol) but got one placed at Houston and two placed at San Antonio.