Valu-Pak Question

I fed it for a while and was even selling it and I had problems with a few of my females not cycling and a good friend of mine was having the same issue, can't place all the blame on the feed being as we did have some females coming in, just not the ones we wanted, and it was the ones we were hunting a good bit, an old dog man told us about feeding a female a baseball size ball of raw ground meat with a table spoon of salt in it everyday for a week, can't say if that works either because his gyp cycled and mine didn't it, I swapped to retriever in the blue bag from TSC, and still no heat cycles at all on my yard, finally put the whole yard on Showtime, and the bitches I wanted bred started them on a multi vitamin for k9's and it wasn't long and all of my females started cycling, I keep mostly females anyways and it was, bam, one estrous cycle after another, I'm currently still feeding the showtime and dang sure not having any troubles with them cycling at a minimum twice in a calendar year, now I have read where there were some studies being done to look at the effects of ivomectin interfering and disrupting a females dogs normal estrous cycle, and again that was a common denominator on both mine and my buddies yards, I used to give ivomectin religiously once a month at 1cc per dog, I have since stopped doing that and only give it once the weather stays consistently above 75 degrees which is usually May-sept/oct. and only give them .5 cc per dog and give the first dose orally with the .5cc of ivomectin and the other 2.5ccs is water I n a 3 ml syringe so it doesn't scaled their throats, the rest of mosquito season I swap it up between sub-que and IM, a lot of different things can be playing a factor in them not cycling, I have a running Walker gyp that is was extremely lean and muscular, real athletic type and build, that didn't come in until she was nearly 3, full time professional women athletes such as gymnast, track and field, and swimmers, experience the same things when they're at tip top shape, this gyp was the first one I tried the vitamin and showtime feed on and was the first to cycle within a month of changing her diet and also backing off on the ivomectin until mosquito season, your dogs could have some sort of vitamin or mineral deficiency that they're not getting from the Valu-Pak, I was buying a ton a month for myself and selling half of it to few cattle/day hands and I got 3 bad tons in a row, and my dogs fell off horribly quick when they were getting used a lot, the feed was extremely dry and hardly had any oil/grease, so I quit buying it and corresponded with a feed rep for Specialty feeds, the makers of valu pak, and was assured the issue was taken care of, now it's just not logistically feasible for me to buy it where I live, and I can get the showtime right here by my house from two different dealers, cost me a little more but it's a small expense I'm willing to deal with, I was first turned on to VP by some hardcore year round running dog guys that hunted hard and ran hard during the off season in 2013, they all loved it and I saw the condition of their dogs and I was sold on it, it was the greatest thing since an ice box in my opinion at first, I was paying 19$ a bag at pallet price and my dogs looked great, after a year I noticed the decline in the feed and my dogs performance, and about the same time so did a few of the deer doggers, and slowly we all stared feeding the showtime, a few of those guys have since gone back to the VP and aren't having any complaints performance wise but I haven't heard any of them mention it effecting their estrous cycles, and aside from being to lean and muscular and dog can be to fat and that will cause them to have a higher body temperature that could offset and disrupt a females bodies ability to regulate hormonal function and that can be an underlying issue for a number of problems , I know that is a big issue in the 4H/show calf world, maybe some of this rambling will help point you in the direction to getting to the source of your problem and straightening it out, time for me to fix another glass of ice tea and get back out in the sauna I call a yard here in South La...