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TrueFit 2.0

One bag. Three jobs. The rate is how you choose.

2 to 4 oz adds shape and spread. 6 to 10 oz cleans up a heavy front end. 12 to 16 oz holds him back. Highly available amino acids and peptides, 50% protein, no soy. Pigs, cattle, sheep and goats.

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Price range: $84.87 through $90.87 — or from Price range: $76.38 through $81.78 / month

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There are three different reasons to reach for this bag

They are not the same job, and you do not feed them at the same rate. Find yours.

One. He needs a little more shape.

Nothing is wrong with him. He is just not as sharp as he could be. You want a crisper edge on that loin, more spread in a barrow, more top on a steer, a better handle on a lamb or a goat.

Nothing is coming off him for this one. You are not burning fat and you are not slowing him down. You are adding muscle shape, and that is all.

Two. He is heavy in his front end.

Coarse through the jowl on a pig. Thick through the brisket and the neck on a steer or a heifer. Short and thick in the neck on a lamb or a goat.

Here the cover does have to come off, and it has to come off the front without taking the shape behind it. You want him jet fronted and right now he is not.

Three. He is going to be too big too soon.

Maturity is worth more in the ring every year, so more and more the problem is not growing him. It is holding him while the calendar catches up.

Here you need the gain to nearly stop, and you need him to keep his freshness and his shape the whole time he is waiting.

Same bag for all three. What changes is how much you feed.

The job What it does Pigs, per day
1. Add shape Nothing comes off. Just more muscle expression. 2 to 4 oz
2. Clean up the front end Cover comes off the jowl, brisket or neck. 6 to 10 oz
3. Hold him Gain slows right down. 12 to 16 oz

Sheep, goats and cattle work the same way inside their own ranges, which are further down the page.

Why one product does all three

The rate changes what it does

This is a highly available amino acid and peptide supplement. At a low rate that is all it is, and that is the first job: building material, nothing more.

Feed more of it and something else starts happening.

When an animal takes in more protein than he needs for building, he does not simply store it. He has to convert it, and that conversion runs through gluconeogenesis, which costs him energy to perform. So a ration carrying more protein delivers less usable energy than the same weight of feed without it.

Every other thing you add to a ration adds energy. This is the one you add that takes energy away.

There is a hormonal side too. Insulin is the signal that lays fat down, and a ration carrying more protein and less energy changes that signal. Protein also moves the satiety hormones, the ones that tell an animal he has had enough, so he gets there sooner.

Turn that dial up far enough and the gain stops. That is the third job.

Low rate, you are adding. Higher rate, you are subtracting. Same bag.

Job one, 2 to 4 oz

Adding shape, and burning nothing

Sometimes nothing is wrong. You are not fighting a heavy front and you are not trying to hold him back. He just needs to be a little sharper than he is.

That is the bottom of the range, and all you are doing is bumping the protein a little. What it looks like depends on what you are leading:

  • Crisping up the edge of that loin
  • More spread in a barrow
  • More top on a steer
  • A better handle on a lamb or a goat

No cover coming off. No gain being held back. Just a little more muscle shape than he had, and nothing else changes.

Job two, 6 to 10 oz

Cover comes off. Shape stays on.

A heavy jowl, a deep brisket, a thick neck. That is cover, and cover comes off when energy comes down.

So you do the thing everybody does. You pull the feed back.

And it works, right up until it does not, because cutting feed does not take cover off one part of him. It takes it off everywhere, and it takes muscle with it. You clean up the front end by giving away the shape you spent all season building.

Feed TrueFit instead and the energy still comes down, but the amino acids and peptides are sitting right there while it does. The cover leaves. The shape has what it needs to stay.

Jet fronted, not flat.

Job three, 12 to 16 oz

Holding him without losing him

You have to hold him. Slow the gain down and let the calendar catch up.

Holding is where projects get given away. Pull the energy back far enough to stop the gain and you usually surrender everything that made him worth holding. He goes flat. He loses his freshness. The shape softens right when you needed it to sit still.

TrueFit is what you feed through that stretch. The energy comes down. The amino acids and peptides stay. He keeps his shape and his freshness while the weight quits moving.

And we have written down exactly how to do it. There is a full recipe on the blog for holding a show pig to virtually zero gain, numbers and all.

Picking your number

The job sets the band. How much and how fast set the number.

Three things decide what you feed.

What job you are doing. That puts you in a band.

How much you have to change.

How fast you have to change it.

A little to do and all season to do it, stay at the bottom of your band. A lot to do and three weeks to do it, go to the top.

Most people run this at one rate all season. The rate is the tool.

One thing it is not

This is not an appetite product

Nearly everything else we make is built to keep an animal eating. TrueGlo, Turbo, Revved Up, all of it is about holding an appetite together and getting more into him.

This one moves the satiety hormones the other way on purpose. Do not reach for it when what you have is a pig that will not eat. That is a TrueGlo problem.

What it is

Fermentation biomass, broken down before he ever gets it

TrueFit 2.0 is built on dried fermentation biomass, the same protein source we use in Revved Up.

The protein is broken down into amino acids and peptides during the spray drying process, then prilled so it flows and mixes into a ration instead of dusting out or separating in the bottom of the pan.

Broken down before he gets it means he is not spending anything to take it apart. The amino acids are there to be used.
Crude protein 50%
Lysine 7%
Methionine 3.8%
Crude fat 5%
Crude fiber 4%

Both of those numbers are there on purpose. The fermentation biomass brings the protein, the amino acids and the peptides. Then we add lysine and methionine on top of it to bring them to seven percent and three point eight, because that is where we want them, not because that is where the ingredient happened to land.

Lysine and methionine are the two that decide whether protein becomes muscle. We were not going to leave either of them to chance.

What it is not

No soy, and this is where the tightness story comes from

Most protein supplements in this business are built on soybean meal, soy flour, or soy protein isolate.

You have heard it said that if you feed those high protein rations your animals are going to get tight. That they will not drive or reach like they should. A lot of people believe it, and a lot of people have watched it happen, so they are not making it up.

Here is what was actually going on. The anti-nutritional factors in soy interfere with mineral availability. Feed a lot of soy based protein and you are tying up minerals that animal needs. The mineral depletion is what showed up as tightness.

It was never the protein. It was what the protein came in.

That is why this one is not built on soy. You bought the mineral. You ought to get the mineral.

How to feed it

Mix it into the regular ration

Species Rate per head per day
Pigs 2 to 16 oz
Sheep and goats 2 to 8 oz
Cattle 4 to 20 oz

Sheep, goats and cattle can also take it by drench.

What a bag covers

Species Days on 25 lb Cost per head per day
Pigs 200 down to 25 $0.42 to $3.40
Sheep and goats 200 down to 50 $0.42 to $1.70
Cattle 100 down to 20 $0.85 to $4.24

Bag or bucket

The refill bag and the bucket hold the same 25 pounds of the same product. The bucket is six dollars more and it is a container, not a better version. Buy the bucket once if you want something to keep in the feed room, then buy refills.

Running it with Fired Up

They do different jobs

Plenty of people run TrueFit alongside Fired Up to get shape and attractiveness on faster. They are doing different jobs and they work together.

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.

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The craft stays yours

TrueFit does not decide which of the three jobs you are doing. It gives you one bag that can do any of them, and a dial to pick with. The reading of the animal is still yours.

Questions we actually get

Straight answers

What rate should I feed?Three things decide it: which job you are doing, how much you have to change, and how fast. The job puts you in a band. On a pig, 2 to 4 oz adds shape and spread, 6 to 10 oz cleans up the jowl, and 12 to 16 oz holds him. Inside that band, a little to do and plenty of time means stay low; a lot to do and a short runway means go to the top. Sheep, goats and cattle follow the same logic inside their own ranges.
Can I use it without burning any fat off?Yes, and that is the first job. At 2 to 4 ounces on a pig you are simply adding available amino acids and peptides for muscle. Nothing is coming off him and nothing is being held back.
How does adding feed make him leaner?At the higher rates, protein is the one thing you add that costs him energy to use. When he takes in more than he needs for building, he has to convert it, and that conversion runs through gluconeogenesis and costs him energy. It also changes the insulin signal that lays fat down and moves the satiety hormones so he gets full sooner.
Why not just cut his feed?You can, and it will take the cover off. It will also take the muscle, because there is nothing there to hold it. TrueFit brings the energy down while the amino acids and peptides are sitting right there for the muscle.
Can I use it in a holding ration?That is the third job and one of the main reasons it exists. There is a full recipe on our blog for holding a show pig to virtually zero gain.
Does this work on more than pigs?Yes. The fault shows up in a different place by species. In a pig it is the jowl, in a steer or heifer it is the brisket and the neck, in a lamb or goat it is the neck. Same three jobs in all of them.
My pig will not eat. Is this what I need?No. This one moves the satiety hormones the other way. If appetite is the problem, look at TrueGlo or TrueGlo Turbo instead.
I have always heard high protein rations make them tight. Is that true?Not the way people mean it. That one comes from soy. The anti-nutritional factors in soybean meal, soy flour and soy protein isolate interfere with mineral availability, so a heavy soy based protein program ties up minerals the animal needs, and that mineral depletion is what showed up as tightness and animals that would not drive or reach. It was never the protein itself. It was what the protein came in. TrueFit is not built on soy.
What is the difference between the bag and the bucket?Six dollars and a container. Same 25 pounds of the same product. Buy the bucket once and refill it.
How long does a bag last?Entirely depends on your rate. A pig at 2 ounces runs 200 days on a bag. At 16 ounces it is 25.
What is it made of?Dried fermentation biomass, the same protein source in Revved Up. The protein is broken down into amino acids and peptides during spray drying, then prilled so it mixes into a ration cleanly. We also add lysine and methionine to bring those two to seven percent and three point eight.
Can I feed it with Fired Up?Yes, and a lot of people do. They are doing different jobs.
Can I drench it?Sheep, goats and cattle, yes. Otherwise mix it into the ration.
What if I am not satisfied?Let us know and Doc will make it right. You will not have to ship anything back. That is the whole policy.

Additional information

Weight 27 lbs
Dimensions 18 × 12 × 12 in
Size

25# Bucket, 25 # Refill Bag

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