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Best salt blocks for steers??
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<blockquote data-quote="IluvABbeef" data-source="post: 317872" data-attributes="member: 3739"><p>I kinda disagree with this. First of all, from what I know, the trace mineral salt has <em><u>all</u></em> the microminerals that are necessary (vital) to the animal, not some: it has Fe, Cu, Zn, I, Co, and Mn, (and Se, depending on the location and herd) and the rest of the macrominerals (Ca, P, S, K, and Mg) the cattle, depending on whether you have a cow-calf herd or not, can get from their feed, whether it's silage, forage hay, grain, etc. (and yes, Fe IS needed in the diet not sometimes :roll: <strong>Cu</strong>'s the one that's needed sometimes; not Fe.) But of course, the producer has to supplement macrominerals to the cows that need those macros to do their job. </p><p></p><p>But as for me, it don't matter whether the trace mineral salt is complete or not, because I don't have a cow-calf herd (as you already should know by now) and the <strong>trace</strong> mineral is just that: microminerals, and the salt is the added macrominerals. And then of course the rest comes from the feed. Supposedly.</p><p></p><p>Okay, now you have a bit of useless info, so I'll shut up now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IluvABbeef, post: 317872, member: 3739"] I kinda disagree with this. First of all, from what I know, the trace mineral salt has [i][u]all[/u][/i] the microminerals that are necessary (vital) to the animal, not some: it has Fe, Cu, Zn, I, Co, and Mn, (and Se, depending on the location and herd) and the rest of the macrominerals (Ca, P, S, K, and Mg) the cattle, depending on whether you have a cow-calf herd or not, can get from their feed, whether it's silage, forage hay, grain, etc. (and yes, Fe IS needed in the diet not sometimes :roll: [b]Cu[/b]'s the one that's needed sometimes; not Fe.) But of course, the producer has to supplement macrominerals to the cows that need those macros to do their job. But as for me, it don't matter whether the trace mineral salt is complete or not, because I don't have a cow-calf herd (as you already should know by now) and the [b]trace[/b] mineral is just that: microminerals, and the salt is the added macrominerals. And then of course the rest comes from the feed. Supposedly. Okay, now you have a bit of useless info, so I'll shut up now. [/QUOTE]
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