"I asked Bill for help when my sheep started dying from copper poisoning while on a major name brand commercial mineral.  It turns out the one batch fits all approach used by the mega company did not work for us on our unique high copper, low molybdenum soils.  Bill custom designed a program for me that solved the problem *and* improved the performance of our sheep."

Janet W. McNally
Tamarack Prolific Sheep

"Having separate flexible mixes for different groups of sheep makes more sense than feeding only one kind of mineral to all sheep.  The mixes Bill puts together with bk Sheep Base II has greatly increased the Vitamin E level to our sheep.  It's nice to know that someone is there to support their products with nutritional knowledge instead of buying a product that may not even be right and that has little nutritional support."

Kevin Slack
K. Slack Suffolks and Club Lambs
Willow Bend Dorsets

"It was surprising to see the differences in the forage analysis of our permanent pasture forage versus hay harvested from our cropped acres.  With a prepackaged sheep mineral you are feeding for some average determined by that feed company.  They do not take into regard your local soil conditions and management.  With a company's prepackaged mineral you are overfeeding or under feeding, it is simply not balanced to the sheep requirements all the time.  As we push our prolific ewes harder to raise triplets and quads, I like to be able to adjust the mineral mix to better meet the ewe and lamb's production requirements.  Bill has allowed me to do this with the best opportunity to perform to their potential."

Gene Schriefer
Dodgeville, Wisconsin