Two New Products – Beef Mix & Sheep Mix

Elk Grove Milling is proud to announce the release of two brand new products; Beef Mix & Sheep Mix. You may read more about them on our website at:
1. Beef MixTM
2. Sheep MixTM

For more information or ask us any questions please contact us:

T: (888) 346-7649
P: (916) 684-2056
F: (916) 684-2059
Email: deb@elkgrovemilling.com

Below is an outline of the information on the site.

BEEF MIX TM

FEEDING DIRECTIONS
Specially designed for cattle. Feed at 2# to 2-1/2# per 100# of the animal’s weight each day. Provide fresh, clean water at all times except to hot, tired animals. Store feed in a cool, dry place.

GUARANTEED ANALYSIS:
Crude Protein Minimum 14.0%
Crude Fat Minimum 3.0%
Crude Fiber Maximum 18.0%
Ash Maximum 5.5%
Calcium Maximum 0.9%
Phosphorus Minimum 0.4%
Contains Zinpro 4-Plex & Zinpro 100

INGREDIENTS:
Alfalfa Meal, Carbohydrate Fines, Almond Hulls, Distillers Dried Grains, Rice Bran, Mix Hay, Grain Screenings, Cane Molasses, Salt, Ground Limestone, Dicalcium Phosphate, Monocalcium Phosphate, Zinc Methionine Complex, Magnesium Oxide, Manganese Methionine Complex, Glycerin, Manganous Sulfate, Copper Lysine Complex, Cobalt Glucoheptonate, Soybean Oil, Zinc Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Cobalt Carbonate, Ethylene Diamine Dihydriodide, Sodium Selenite

SHEEP MIX TM

FEEDING DIRECTIONS
Specially designed for sheep. Feed at 1# to 1-1/2# per 100# of the animal’s weight each day. Provide fresh, clean water at all times except to hot, tired animals. Store feed in a cool, dry place.

GUARANTEED ANALYSIS:
Crude Protein                Minimum           16.0%
Crude Fat                      Minimum             3.0%
Crude Fiber                   Maximum          20.0%
Ash                              Maximum            4.5%
Calcium                        Maximum            0.9%
Phosphorus                  Minimum             0.4%

INGREDIENTS:
Alfalfa Hay, Dried Vegetable Product, Distillers Dried Grains , Almond Hulls, Rice Bran, Mix Hay, Cane Molasses, Salt, Ground Limestone, Calcium Carbonate, Monocalcium and Dicalcium Phosphate, Sodium Selenite, Magnesium Oxide, Mineral Oil, Zinc Sulphate, Manganese Sulfate, Copper Sulfate, Vitamin E Supplement, Ethylenediamine Dihydriodide, Vitamin A Supplement, Vitamin D3 Supplement, Cobalt Carbonate

Stable Mix in 10 steps

  

Recipe: Stable Mix in 10 Steps

From the kitchen of: Elk Grove Milling, Inc.

Ingredients:

Various Hays, Almond Hulls, Rice Bran, Soy Bean Meal, Salt and Vitamin/Mineral packs containing Zinpro 4 Plex and Zinpro 100.

Directions:

Step 1: The various ingredients such as mixed hay, alfalfa hay, rice bran, soybean meal and almond hulls are weighed, inspected and unloaded in specified areas at Elk Grove Milling, Inc.  

Step 2: Each product has a specific formula which is converted to a mix card. The foreman instructs his crew to mix the ingredients, except the hay, together based on the specific mix card, going in by volume and weight.  

        

Step 3: The mix is then put into a hopper which is volumetrically controlled. The mix is metered at 45% into the product stream where it is blended with the required types of hay as they go through the grinder.

Step 4: From the grinder, the complete mix including hays, is airlifted to the top of the mill where it drops into the mill makeup hopper which drops into another mixer, continually mixing the product.

 

Step 5: The product then goes from the mixer to the steamer, where the product is continuously mixed as steam is injected into it.

Step 6: The steam mix is then dropped into the pellet mill. The product is dropped into the pelleting chamber, which consist of one die and two pellets. The rollers are stationary as the die revolves, forcing the feed through and creating small, soft, pellets.

Step 7: The pellets then drop out of the die and are placed onto the hot pellet conveyor which takes them to the elevator. They are then lifted up to the cooler. The cooler removes excess moisture from the steam injection, hardening the pellets.

Step 8: The cool, hard, pellets are then moved into a cleaner where broken pellets and fines are removed, reprocessed and eventually recirculated.

Step 9: The final product is then moved to storage tanks for bagging, barreling or sent to tanks for bulk loads.  

Step 10: Customers and orders come in and our crew packages the different products for purchase, shipment and delivery. The pellets are then ready to be fed to happy, healthy horses! YUM!

 

And the winner is….

Congratulations to our 2010 Horse Expo Winner, Robyn Thornton!

 

Robyn Thornton, owner of Cheyenne Stables, was this year’s Western State’s Horse Expo grand prize winner! Robyn has been in business since 2003 and runs a family friendly stable. As well as a boarding facility she also offers a work to ride program and is a vendor for the South Sutter Charter Homeschoolers. The Stables focus primarily on western riders and trail riding. She currently boards 35 horses ranging from minis to draft crosses and everything in between. Most of her horses are rescue horses that she has rehabilitated and nourished back to health. Robyn’s work ethic and dedication to horses is just the type of customers we love to see and we are proud to congratulate her as our grand prize winner!

 

Want to win a free ton of feed just like Robyn? Be sure to come by our booth next year during the 2011 Western States Horse Expo and enter our drawing!

Horse Expo’s over… for now!

Well folks, Horse Expo is over for another year and it was a complete success! After a long weekend of getting to know our customers better, advertising our products and meeting new wonderful individuals, we are more and more confident in our ability of providing a consistent quality feed to our customers. Elk Grove Milling would like to say thanks to everyone that made this year s Expo a success! Our dedicated employees worked hard setting up our booth, working all weekend and holding down the fort at the mill in Elk Grove.

Sheri Brodsky, Nutritionist, came by Sunday to help promote our new Cutter- Roper Mix™.  Bonnie Davis, Back Country Clinician, was kind enough to spend time each day in our booth visiting with customers and potential customer about our certified weed free pellets! Bonnie participates annually in the Trail Riding Symposium, presenting information and clinics on Horse Camping. Her experience and vast range of information has been great in teaching and encouraging individuals to ride the back country.

TJ Scoggin of Stance Equine was also there to spend a few days with the EGM crew. TJ’s company, Stance Equine, creates a product called Cool Stance, a specially formulated pelletized horse supplement made of  Coconut meal and oils  increasing protein and fat without the added starch and sugar to help keep horses naturally ”cool” . Cool Stance is being pelletized and distributed at Elk Grove Milling.  It was great to have TJ with us at Horse Expo!

Our new Cutter-Roper Mix™ was introduced for the first time at Expo this year! Cutter-Roper Mix™ is a new complete feed for EGM, designed for the moderate working horse by NRC standards.  This feed, 12% protein, 5% fat, includes Cool Stance. Please keep up on our blog to find out more about our new Cutter-Roper Mix™!

As the staff works hard to unwind from 2010 Expo and begin preparing for 2011′s Western States Horse Expo, we would love to hear from you!    If you visited us in our booth to say hi, tried out a new product, entered our drawings, or sent a friend by let us know what you think! We are eager to hear how our customers felt and look to you for ideas of improving next year’s show.

Click on the pictures below to see the fun times we had at Horse Expo!

   

• To lean more about our new Cutter-Roper Mix™ please visit our website at http://elkgrovemilling.com or call our office at (916) 684-2056
• To learn more about Cool Stance please visit the Stance Equine website at www.stancequine.com or call Elk Grove Milling at (916) 684-2056

Sacramento County Fair

Cal Expo Center has hosted another successful Sacramento County Fair! This past memorial weekend kids from all over Sacramento County showed up to show and auction off the animals they have raised. Elk Grove Milling, a proud supporter of the Jr. Livestock Auction and local FFA and 4-H chapters, was there to participate and bid on animals. This year, we are proud to announce the 11 individuals Elk Grove Milling supported in their 2010 agricultural experience!

Thomas Bettencourt
-Elk Grove FFA: Market Hog

Kelsey Huff
-Elk Grove FFA: Market Beef

Natalie Ross
-Delta FFA: Market Hog

Eric Davis
-Delta FFA: Market Lamb

Ashwin Naidu
-Elk Grove FFA: Market Rabbit

Sydney DaSilva
-Franklin 4-H: Market Hog

Luciano Santiago
-Elk Grove FFA: Market Hog

Kelsey Eldridge
-Galt FFA: Market Lamb

Gretchen Schauer
-Delta FFA: Market Hog

Michayla Davidson
-Herald 4-H: Market Hog

Maya Wistos
-Wilton 4-H: Market Goat

Congratulations to all of the particpants. Your hard work and determination showed and paid off! Enjoy your success and good luck in future years to come!

Western States Horse Expo is around the corner!

Every year in June, Cal Expo Center in Sacramento is transformed into horse mania. From shows to auctions and every vendor imaginable, horse folks like ourselves come to spend the weekend exploring, watching and learning about new products and events!

Elk Grove Milling will be there again this year! Come visit us from June 11-13th at Building C of Cal Expo. Stop by and chat with one of our horse feed specialists, learn about our new products and enter in our raffle! Prizes are being given away through out each day, and each entry will be put into our grand prize raffle of 1 FREE Ton! Yes, that’s right we are giving away one free ton of Stable Mix at the end of our show! We can’t wait to see you there.

May Updates

Elk Grove Milling, Inc. has been providing high quality horse feed to California’s Northern Valley since 1982. The Mill is nestled in the heart of horse country just a few minutes out of the city of Elk Grove in Northern California. Horse owners have placed their trust in our product for years. Bob Lent, owner of Elk Grove Milling continues to maintain his original commitment to provide a product that goes above and beyond any other horse feed product on the market.

We welcome you to our blog and invite you to “Subscribe” to the blog by entering your email address in the space provided in the lower right portion of this page.  We’ll keep you up to date with all the latest news in our industry, and events and specials at Elk Grove Milling.  Below are a selection of items we think you will find of interest:
1.  Buy a bag or a barrel of our balanced, satisfying Stable Mix and receive a FREE 50lb bag.
2. Click here to enter your horse in the 2011 Elk Grove Milling calendar photo contest!
3. The Good Day Sacramento crew visited us last week. Click here to see Courtney Dempsey at Elk Grove Milling learning what goes into our feed! Everyboday say it with me…HAYYY!

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