TrueTrac Cattle Joint Supplement

The program that wins is the program that wears him down

A few years ago 1,280 pound steers won. Today they look like prospects.

Show cattle have gotten bigger every year, the same way cattle on feed have. Selection kept adding mass, and it added it faster than the frame underneath could keep up. The genetics moved. The pasterns did not.

And every pound you put on him is a pound his pasterns and hocks have to carry. On concrete. Up the trailer ramp. Around the ring. Through a summer of daily work and a fall of hauling.

There is no version of this where you feed him less. The mass is the point. The mass is also the load. That is the trade every show barn is making now, and mostly nobody names it.

None of that is a knock on your program. It is a knock on the arithmetic everybody in this business is running into at the same time.

Joint damage does not announce itself

It shows up first as a steer with less and less flex as he puts on weight. Not lame. Just a little stiffer through the hip and the hock every few weeks, in a way you would have to be looking for to see.

By the time you see a short stride, or a pastern starting to pop, or a steer who would rather stand than walk over to you, the wear has been building for months.

There is no catching it early. There is only before.

That is the whole logic of this product. TrueTrac is not something you reach for when he starts moving wrong. It is something that is already in him when the load goes on.

Start early. Feed it every day. Finish the season on it.

The hairpin turn

The blood vessels that feed the growth cartilage make a hairpin turn on their way in.

Inflammation at that turn puts pressure on the supply. You know what happens to the water when a hose kinks. That is what happens to the blood feeding the growth plate, and a growth plate that gets shorted while the animal is still building is a problem you do not see until later.

Inflammation there climbs when gain climbs, and it climbs when you start pushing for finish. Which is the same trade from the top of this page, arriving somewhere you cannot watch it.

Look at joints on the rail and a very high percentage of cattle show damage to the growth plate and the joint cartilage. Almost none of it announced itself on the way there.

Built for structure

Four things in the bag. Give the frame the material to build with, get it absorbed, and work on both of the things that turn daily load into permanent damage.

Built on what we have learned across more than a million head.

The part you can check in a week

We have fed DuoPort by itself, without the collagen, without the glucosamine, without anything else that is in this bag, to more than a million head of cattle on feed.

Not show cattle. Fed cattle, in commercial yards, where nobody is walking the pen hoping to see something and nobody has any reason to be generous about what they saw.

What we see, over and over, is that inside of a week those cattle are moving better.

That is not the reason you feed TrueTrac. The reason is the nine or ten months of load we talked about up top. But it is the part you do not have to take our word for, and you do not have to wait a season to find out.

Watch him get up. Watch him turn. Watch how he walks up to the bunk. Start him today and you will have your own answer by this time next week.

Before, left. After, right. Same pen of fed cattle in a commercial yard.

One fast thing you can verify. One slow thing you are buying. The fast one is how you know the slow one is working.

The Clean Formula

A pretty label does not mean a clean formula. What a company leaves out matters as much as what it puts in.

That is the standard TrueTrac is built on, and it is the reason one popular joint ingredient will never appear in any bag with our name on it.

A lot of joint supplements in this category are built on green-lipped mussel. It carries thiaminase, an enzyme that breaks thiamin down.

In a ruminant, short thiamin means polioencephalomalacia. Everybody in the barn just calls it polio. It has nothing to do with the human disease that name brings to mind, it only got stuck with the same name. Cattle get it, and they get it most on high grain, which is exactly what a show steer eats every day of his feeding period.

So we leave it out. Out of the cattle product, out of the lamb and goat product, out of the pig product. We do not add thiamin to chase the problem. We just refuse to put in the ingredient that tears it down.

A customer wrote in this spring certain we had made a mistake

He was new to us. He opened his TrueTrac, looked at the scoop, and was sure we had put the wrong one in the bag. It was way too small.

We had not made a mistake. That scoop is the whole point.

Your animal only eats so much in a day, and everything in that bucket is competing for the same room. A supplement that is mostly carrier does not just cost you money, it takes up space the feed was going to occupy. So we build the other direction: nothing in the bag that is not doing a job, and a dose sized to what the animal actually needs rather than to what looks generous in your hand.

He fed it all season.

Top dress daily, by weight

Right on his ration. No mixing, no separate step, nothing to teach anybody.

Start it early in the feeding period, before the load goes on, not after something starts to look wrong. Feed it every day, both feedings, straight through the show season.

And here is the honest part

Most people buy this product about 90 days before a show.

We can see it in our own numbers. Orders spike roughly 90 days ahead of the summer state fairs, and again ahead of the spring majors. Same pattern every year.

I talk to those customers. And way too often, the order is a reaction to something. He started moving a little different, or a pastern started to give, and TrueTrac is what they reached for.

I will be straight with you. Sometimes that helps.

But the best results come when you start feeding TrueTrac on day one.

And understand, this is not a knock on how hard you are working. You are already working hair, turning him out late at night and getting him back in the cooler before daylight. Nobody who does that is short on effort. This is just the one piece of the program where the timing does more than the effort does.

Go back and read the second section on this page again. Wear does not announce itself. A steer bought in the fall and shown in August has been loading that frame for nine or ten months. The 90 days you are worried about is just the part you can finally see.

Start him on day one, and the last 90 days takes care of itself.

If day one is already behind you, start him today anyway. Then do the one thing that actually changes next season: decide right now what date you will start the next one, and put it on the calendar in the barn where you will see it.

On the subscription

If you are running him the way this product is built to be run, you need three or four bags, not one, and you will need them on a schedule rather than whenever you happen to notice the bag is light.

The subscription ships on schedule and takes 10% off every bag. Set it up on your first order and the start date stops being something you have to remember.

Use it alongside balanced nutrition and the daily work you are already doing. It does not replace either one.

Doc will make it right.

If you are not satisfied, let us know. You will not have to ship anything back.

That is the whole policy.

The craft stays yours

TrueTrac does not work his hair for you. It does not turn him out late at night or get him in the cooler before daylight. It does not fit him.

What it does is take one variable off the table, so the animal you present is the one your program built rather than the one the season left you.

That is all a good tool is supposed to do.

Straight answers