They say V that a horse can stand and lick a mineral block all day
every day and not get the minerals he needs, so you have to have loose
minerals. I have had probs now and then with bark chewing and think
its related to minerals. also the move for you... a place with new
soil nutrients, stuff in the grass causing a different balance etc...
like here in my area, a documented deficiency in the soil of selenium.
also dont know why but when teev came here he was insane wanting
minerals and I thought that was just him, but now trausti is too.
there must be something at karens that they are feeling a depletion of
here. I give my horses loose minerals when i know it isnt gonna rain
so it wont melt away but now and then it gets caught in rain and one
day i found Trausti was lapping the mineral water he wanted it so bad.
I moved a "holder" further under the shelter and keep minerals in it
all the time for him now. I thought it was because it was more hot
and humid here but Trausti does not seem excessively sweaty and its
not all that different here in summer from karens! in winter yes, but
not summer... so it has to be feed/grass/soil even water! water has
minerals you know. And if heavy in one thing can cause an imbalance
so they need more of anotehr. we have high iron content and no
sulphur. water in lousiana for instance, smells like rotten eggs from
ten feet away when you turn on a fawcett its so full of sulphur.
janice
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even good horses have bad days sometimes.
