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Why do salt/mineral blocks exist?
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<blockquote data-quote="Dave" data-source="post: 1298526" data-attributes="member: 498"><p>The nutrient requirements for minerals in a cows diet are real well established. If you can meet those requirements without a supplement more power to you. But reality is that the chances of that occurring are somewhere between slim and none. So you have three choices. Use a stock mineral mix that provides sufficient amounts of all the required minerals. Have a custom blend made based on soil, forage, and manure samples to meet your exact needs. Two problems with that approach. First it is pretty darn expensive. The second is that it is based on a snap shot in time. As in, what the conditions were on the day you tested. Or you can feed no minerals at all and run the risk of being short on one or more of the minerals that your cattle require. That could have no noticeable effect or it could cause a train wreck. Myself I have been through enough train wrecks to have learned to do everything I can to avoid them in the future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave, post: 1298526, member: 498"] The nutrient requirements for minerals in a cows diet are real well established. If you can meet those requirements without a supplement more power to you. But reality is that the chances of that occurring are somewhere between slim and none. So you have three choices. Use a stock mineral mix that provides sufficient amounts of all the required minerals. Have a custom blend made based on soil, forage, and manure samples to meet your exact needs. Two problems with that approach. First it is pretty darn expensive. The second is that it is based on a snap shot in time. As in, what the conditions were on the day you tested. Or you can feed no minerals at all and run the risk of being short on one or more of the minerals that your cattle require. That could have no noticeable effect or it could cause a train wreck. Myself I have been through enough train wrecks to have learned to do everything I can to avoid them in the future. [/QUOTE]
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