TNT Triple R Drench

Description

Rescue. Restore. Revive.

Every appetite product you own has the same flaw

Go look at the shelf in your barn. A top-dress. A flavor product. A conditioner. Good products, most of them, and every single one shares one weakness.

He has to eat it.

On an animal that has already quit, everything you own is sitting in a bucket he is walking away from. That is the moment this product is built for, and it is the reason a drench exists at all.

Why waiting is the expensive choice

Most of us have said it. He will come around in a day or two.

Here is the number that changed my mind. Work out of Canada on off feed events found that roughly 80 percent of otherwise healthy pigs that go off feed for 24 hours develop a stomach ulcer, and by 48 hours it is close to all of them. Not sick pigs. Healthy ones.

So a day off feed is not just lost ground. It can start a second problem that keeps him off feed longer than the first one did. The short problem becomes the long one.

That is why we made this something you keep on the shelf, not something you order after the trouble starts.

Why it is a drench, and where the name comes from

I built this for newborn calves.

A calf with scours is losing minerals. That is what that kind of sickness does, and in an animal that small it happens fast. When those minerals go, the enzyme systems that run on them go with them, because a great deal of what a body does depends on having those minerals there to do it with.

That is the part I built this for. Not to treat the scours. To put the minerals back, and let the enzyme systems that depend on them come back too.

That is also where the name comes from. Rescue is getting something into an animal that has already quit. Restore is the minerals. Revive is what comes back once they are there.

And a newborn calf in trouble is not going to eat anything you set in front of him. So it had to go in by mouth. That was not a feature we added on later. It is the reason the product has the form it has, and everything on this page about the animal that has already quit eating traces back to a calf that never started.

What is in it, and what each part is doing

• Five amino acid chelated minerals: zinc, copper, manganese, potassium, and magnesium. An animal that is off feed and stressed is losing minerals and not taking new ones in. Amino acid chelated is the form we use, and the reason is absorption. These are low molecular weight, under 800 daltons, and absorption starts as soon as it hits his tongue. That matters more on a drench than it would anywhere else, because you are not waiting on a gut that has already quit to get the minerals out of it.
• Medium chain fatty acids. A readily used energy source and gut support for an animal that is not getting energy out of feed right now.
• Oregano oil. Works against the bad bugs that take over when a gut gets upset.
• Cinnamon oil. Helps tip the balance back toward the good ones.
• Vitamin B12. Here is a thing most people never get told. In a ruminant, the B vitamins are not something the animal eats. They are made by the bugs in the rumen, so a healthy rumen makes its own supply. When he goes off feed and that rumen quits working right, the supply falls off at exactly the moment he needs it most. A pig does not make his own at all, he gets it out of his feed, so a pig that is not eating is not getting any. Either way, the animal who has stopped eating is the animal whose B12 has stopped coming in.

Guaranteed analysis: Zinc min 1,000 ppm. Copper min 1,000 ppm. Manganese min 413 ppm. Potassium min 840 ppm. Magnesium min 840 ppm.

Ingredients: Zinc amino acid chelate, copper amino acid chelate, manganese amino acid chelate, potassium amino acid chelate, magnesium amino acid chelate, acetic acid, mono and diglycerides of edible fats or oils or edible fat forming acids, oregano oil, cinnamon oil, glycerin, polyethylene glycol 400, polysorbate 60, dextrose, saccharin, natural and artificial flavors, and vegetable oil.

How to use it

Shake well before use.

Give one ounce per hundred pounds of body weight by mouth, up to a maximum of six ounces total per head. In metric that is 3cc per 10 pounds, up to a maximum of 170cc per head.

So a newborn calf gets about an ounce. A 250 pound market hog gets about two and a half. Anything over 600 pounds still gets six ounces, not more. The cap is the cap, and a bigger steer does not get a bigger dose.

You can drench it, add it to water, or top dress it on feed. Drenching is the point of the product, because it works on an animal who has already quit eating, but you have all three options.

Species: cattle, swine, and goats.

WARNING: Contains added copper. Do not feed to sheep.

Sheep are far more sensitive to copper than cattle, pigs, or goats, and copper builds up in them. This product is not for your lambs. If you run lambs and market animals in the same barn, keep this bottle away from the sheep feed.

When to use it, straight off the label: when breeding, such as when pulling CIDRs. For newborns, where it can be added to electrolytes or colostrum. At weaning. When receiving livestock. When vaccinating. When treating sick animals. Anytime to combat stress.

Ask your veterinarian how often to give it and how it fits the protocol you already run.

The honest part

I would rather lose a sale than have you expect the wrong thing from this bottle.

Triple R Drench is supportive care. It is not a treatment and it is not a cure for anything. It supports the gut and puts back trace minerals an animal loses when he is off feed and stressed. That is the job.

It is not your fluids. It is a low volume drench, so it will not rehydrate a dehydrated animal by itself, and it is not meant to. If an animal needs rehydrating, that comes from a proper electrolyte in the volume it takes, or from your vet. Give Triple R alongside those fluids, not instead of them.

And it does not replace your veterinarian. Take his temperature. If he is running a fever, if he is down, if he will not get up or drink, if his eyes are sunken, or if anything looks wrong beyond a stalled appetite, call your vet. Some of what puts an animal off feed needs a diagnosis you cannot make from the fence. Early beats late, every time.

Rescue, then daily

Triple R Drench is the rescue. It is for the animal that has already stopped.

Once he is eating again, keep him there with a daily gut program. For most show families that is TrueGlo, which is built to hold an animal on feed through the stress that knocked him off in the first place. Rescue with the drench. Hold the ground with the daily.

Drench or Concentrate?

We build Triple R two ways and people ask which one they need. Short version: this bottle is for one animal who has already quit. The Concentrate goes in the water for a whole group that is still drinking.

	Triple R Drench	Triple R Stock Solution Concentrate
Goes	In his mouth	In the water
Reaches	One animal	A pen, or the whole barn
Best for	The one who has already quit cold	A group under stress that is still drinking
Timing	After he stops	Through the stress stretch, ideally starting before
Dose	1 oz per 100 lb, max 6 oz per head	14 oz makes 1 gal stock, then 1 oz stock per gallon of drinking water
Size	32 oz	32 oz, treats about 300 gallons
Price	$42.80	$87.57

Most barns end up with both. They are not competing with each other. They cover different days.

Price, size, and how we handle it if it does not work out

$42.80 for a 32 ounce bottle. Shipping is included. Subscribe and Save takes another 10 percent off.

If it does not do what you expected, tell us and we will make it right. You do not need to ship a used bottle back to us. Call and ask for Doc.

FAQ: Triple R Drench

My animal has completely stopped eating. What do I do right now?
Cover the basics first and take his temperature so you are not missing something that needs a vet. If he is off from stress, a haul, or show week, a drench is your fastest move, because an animal that will not eat is not going to eat a top-dress either. Give one ounce per hundred pounds of body weight by mouth, and get him back on a daily gut program once he is eating.

Will this cure my animal?
No, and be careful of anything that says it will. This is supportive care. It supports the gut and puts back trace minerals an animal loses when he is off feed. Whatever is actually wrong still needs the basics, and sometimes a veterinarian.

Can I use it instead of an electrolyte?
No. They do two different jobs and you want both. Your electrolyte is the fluids, in the volume it takes to rehydrate an animal. Triple R is low volume and will not rehydrate anything by itself. What it brings is the trace minerals, the gut support, and the B12 your plain electrolyte does not have. Give the electrolyte for the fluids and Triple R alongside it.

How much does one bottle cover?
Thirty-two ounces at one ounce per hundred pounds is about a dozen doses on a 250 pound market hog, or roughly thirty on a hundred pound goat. On anything over 600 pounds you are at the six ounce cap, so a bottle is a little over five doses.

My steer weighs 1,200 pounds. Do I give him twelve ounces?
No. Six ounces is the maximum for any animal, regardless of weight. The one ounce per hundred pounds rule takes you up to the cap and stops there.

Can I give it to my lambs?
No. It contains added copper, and sheep are far more sensitive to copper than the other species. Do not feed it to sheep.

How is this different from the Stock Solution Concentrate?
See the side by side table above. Short version: this one goes in one animal’s mouth after he has quit, and the Concentrate goes in the water for a group that is still drinking.

When should I call my vet instead?
If he is down, running a fever, will not get up or drink, has sunken eyes, is not improving within a day, or you see blood. A drench is a tool in a protocol, not a substitute for a diagnosis.