Salt Buckets for Animals
Salt is an essential part of the diet and is vital to stock health. Salt plays a major role in maintaining body fluid balances, transmitting nerve impulses and uptake of key nutrients from the bloodstream.
In the wild animals will risk great danger to satisfy their need for salt. It therefore makes sense that if animals in the wild will risk all to obtain salt it is essential that salt is provided in the domestic farm environment.
Animals have a more well defined appetite for salt than any other element except water.
Salt deficiencies are shown in abnormal licking or chewing of wood, soil, and sweat of other animals, urine drinking and slow growth rates or low milk yields.
What better way to provide salt than with one of the range of Dallas Keith's salt buckets specially formulated for all types of stock and diets?
- Convenient plastic buckets are easy to handle and feed
- Salt base prevents excessive intakes commonly seen with molasses licks
- Feed all year round to provide the daily intake of salt as well as trace elements
- Choose from a wide variety of block sizes from 20kg up to 500 kg
- Six types of salt licks to suit a variety of applications
Formulations:
STANDARD SALE (Soil Association approved)
- Suitable for feeding in organic farming situations
- Contains 2.2% magnesium but with no trace elements
- For all year feeding to all classes of stock to provide essential sodium.
HIGH TRACE ELEMENT SALT - Cattle
Supplies essential salt and all trace elements particularly copper which is so essential for growth rates and general thrift in cattle.
HIGH TRACE ELEMENT SALT - Sheep
Feed where forage/grazing is low in trace elements
HIGH MAGNESIUM SALT
Dairy cows salt requirements significantly increase when lactating, as large amounts of sodium are excreted in milk. Contains extra magnesium for all stock especially dairy cows, sucklers and ewes post lambing.
Two different sources of magnesium for maximum availability-sodium reduces potassium tie-up of available magnesium.
Feed whenever magnesium deficiency occurs especially in Spring and Autumn.
HIGH ZINC SALT
Zinc is known to help with foot problems also some contagious skin complaints in sheep and cattle. For beef cattle on high cereal diets
GARLIC SALT
Garlic's antiviral action maes an outstanding contributjion to some of the most difficult to treat conditions. Suitable for cattle, sheep and horses.
ANALYSIS
| STANDARD SALT | HIGH TRACE - CATTLE | HIGH TRACE - SHEEP | HI MAG | HI ZINC | GARLIC SALT | |
| Salt | 82% | 82% | 82% | 73.50% | 82% | 76% |
| Magnesium | 2% | 2% | 2% | 6% | 2% | 2% |
| Phosphorus | - | - | - | - | 1% | - |
| Calcium | - | - | - | - | 2% | - |
| Selenium | - | 12 mg/kg | 12 mg/kg | - | 12 mg/kg | - |
| Manganese | - | 1600 mg/kg | 1600 mg/kg | - | 1600 mg/kg | - |
| Cobalt | - | 100 mg/kg | 100 mg/kg | - | 100 mg/kg | - |
| Zinc | - | 1800 mg/kg | 1800 mg/kg | - | 7000 mg/kg | contribution |
| Iodine | - | 200 mg/kg | 200 mg/kg | - | 200 mg/kg | - |
| Garlic | - | - | - | - | - | YES |
| Copper | - | 1500 mg/kg | - | - | - | - |