Epsom Salt

[HDRider]

Does anyone know if adding epsom salt to the cattle mineral is a good thing to help prevent grass tetany?

 

[HDRider]

Magnesium (Mg), not less than 5.0% Magnesium (Mg), not less than 10.0%

My mineral is the one on the left. I can't get the hi mag on the right.

Looking at a box of epsom salt it says 10% Magnesium and 13% sulfur.

 

[Redgully]

Never tried but i have sprayed pasture with it to bring up magnesium quickly. I have however had good results feeding powdered dolomite in the cows feed. The extra calcium doesn't go astray either.

 

[kenny thomas]

A 50# bag of 56% mag oxide is around $40. Mix as you desire.

 

[HDRider]

A 50# bag of 56% mag oxide is around $40. Mix as you desire.

How much of that might I add to 50# of my regular mineral before it effects palatablity?

 

[kenny thomas]

A 50# bag of 56% mag oxide is around $40. Mix as you desire.

How much of that might I add to 50# of my regular mineral before it effects palatablity?

It's been a while since I done it but I used some ddg to calm down the bitter taste. Can't remember the mix. It just made more sense to me to buy 14% high mag mineral for the short time each year that I use it.

 

[HDRider]

A 50# bag of 56% mag oxide is around $40. Mix as you desire.

How much of that might I add to 50# of my regular mineral before it effects palatablity?

It's been a while since I done it but I used some ddg to calm down the bitter taste. Can't remember the mix. It just made more sense to me to buy 14% high mag mineral for the short time each year that I use it.

Not being a cattle area makes getting stuff hard when those that do carry stuff are more concerned with not getting stuck with inventory that does not turn over.

 

[Nesikep]

Magnesium oxide may be cheap, but oxides have poor bioavailability, Epsom salt, Magnesium sulfate is much more bioavailable

 

[clintong]

Epsom salts are magnesium sulfate. We can absorb a small amount of this through our skin. (Not a lot), but it does have a mild anti-inflammatory effect. This means that joints and muscles that are stiff can experience some minor pain relief from the anti-inflammatory nature.

However, the heat of the water is just as beneficial, and you'd get better results with having a 'purpose-made' anti-inflammatory.

But if you can't have the anti-inflammatory for whatever reason (pregnant/medication or whatever), it can provide a little additional relief.

However, the amount is quite small. It'd be like comparing 2 identical pains. Having 2 nearly identical baths. Heat/volume etc. The only thing different is Epsom salt. You might rate the non-epsom salt as reducing pain by 50% and the Epsom salt bath as a 55% reduction.

It also may be purely psychosomatic. However, the uptake in magnesium sulfate has been proven (in very small quantities), and the effects of this have been proven. So it's got a smidge of truth to it.

As for drawing out the toxins? No. Don't go there. This is a new-age-hippy-medicine FUD. (In my personal opinion)

 

[TexasBred]

A 50# bag of 56% mag oxide is around $40. Mix as you desire.

How much of that might I add to 50# of my regular mineral before it effects palatablity?

It's been a while since I done it but I used some ddg to calm down the bitter taste. Can't remember the mix. It just made more sense to me to buy 14% high mag mineral for the short time each year that I use it.

10 lbs. of Magox mixed into one bag of mineral would bring it up to about 10% mag. Check with your feed store and see if they can get a bag of it from their mill. Should be around $25 for 50 lbs.