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<blockquote data-quote="rockridgecattle" data-source="post: 721857" data-attributes="member: 6198"><p>Depending on where you are here, salt can increase intake or decrease depending on the herd. Some years we add salt and they go crazy for the mineral. Some years they would rather not have the salt in the mineral. Our feed house recommends and even places on the bag to mix 50/50 with loose salt. However, for our herd, we rarely mix 05/50. at the most 30% salt. </p><p>The livestock ag guy was also suggesting at a cattle producer's dinner, because we feed free choice salt, and since all cows eat salt, skip the free choice salt block and add the salt to the mineral, guaranteeing that all cows will get some mineral. the consumption of mineral will go up in the beginning but they will level off after a bag or two.</p><p></p><p>We are also iodine deficient here in our area. We actually add iodine to the mineral several times a year. We used to have several foot rot cases a year, and lumpy jaw was eating into the bottom line. The vet recommended adding iodine and we have not had a problem in several years on lumpy jaw. This year we saw a few cases of foot rot, but the two years of wet ground took it's tole, and we ran out of the iodine. Once we got it back into the mineral we stopped having cases of foot rot.</p><p></p><p>I think it depends on your area. A regional thing</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rockridgecattle, post: 721857, member: 6198"] Depending on where you are here, salt can increase intake or decrease depending on the herd. Some years we add salt and they go crazy for the mineral. Some years they would rather not have the salt in the mineral. Our feed house recommends and even places on the bag to mix 50/50 with loose salt. However, for our herd, we rarely mix 05/50. at the most 30% salt. The livestock ag guy was also suggesting at a cattle producer's dinner, because we feed free choice salt, and since all cows eat salt, skip the free choice salt block and add the salt to the mineral, guaranteeing that all cows will get some mineral. the consumption of mineral will go up in the beginning but they will level off after a bag or two. We are also iodine deficient here in our area. We actually add iodine to the mineral several times a year. We used to have several foot rot cases a year, and lumpy jaw was eating into the bottom line. The vet recommended adding iodine and we have not had a problem in several years on lumpy jaw. This year we saw a few cases of foot rot, but the two years of wet ground took it's tole, and we ran out of the iodine. Once we got it back into the mineral we stopped having cases of foot rot. I think it depends on your area. A regional thing [/QUOTE]
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