Calf Won't Suck - TIP

[backhoeboogie]

This sounds nuts but has worked on stubborn calves, some it did not. Take a hand full of sugar and shove it in their mouth. Immediately stick the nipple in.

Paint said the same thing or something similar to it once. Never tried it but intend to.

 

[AngusLimoX]

About 4 years ago I had what I am fairly sure was a WMD case, but since using this stuff I have not. Still get the odd chilled calf, or one I haul in to dry or warm.
This is what my loose mineral has in it.

Sodium…………..3%
Calcium……………12%
Phosphorus……………………12%
Magnesium………………..5%
Sulfur…………………….1%
Iodine…………………….101mg/kg
Copper………………………..1700mg/kg
Manganese……………………5100mg/kg
Zinc………………………....5100mg/kg
Cobalt……………………….17mg/kg
Fluorine…………………….500mg/kg
Vitamin A…………………….350,000 IU/kg
Vitamin D3.…………………….105,000IU/kg
Vitamin E……………………..3000 IU/kg

Not much of a nutritionist but I think the E is important?

 

[randiliana]

Yes, E and Selenium work together. A Vit E deficiency is pretty much the same disease as a Se deficiency.

 

[AngusLimoX]

Yes, E and Selenium work together. A Vit E deficiency is pretty much the same disease as a Se deficiency.

So, what do they put in it that is vitamin E?

 

[randiliana]

?? not sure what you mean?

 

[dun]

BoSe is both selenium and vitamin E in the same shot

 

[AngusLimoX]

Sorry, not my forte, is vitamin E a compound on its own, or do they put something else that contains vitamin E in it, and call that vitamin E. Like chicken feathers in tubs, the chicken feathers contain certain things that they list as ingredients, but they don't list chicken feathers.

When I buy my loose minerals, is there actual chunks of vitamin E??

 

[randiliana]

I really couldn't tell you where they get Vit E from, never looked into it.

 

[hillsdown]

Sorry, not my forte, is vitamin E a compound on its own, or do they put something else that contains vitamin E in it, and call that vitamin E. Like chicken feathers in tubs, the chicken feathers contain certain things that they list as ingredients, but they don't list chicken feathers.

When I buy my loose minerals, is there actual chunks of vitamin E??

I never thought about that, might be something to ask the mineral makers.

On my bottle of selenium called Selon-E active ingredients per ml are :
selenium (as sodium selenite)...3.0 mg
di-alpha tocopheryl acetate (vitamin E) ... I.U.