"Michael" wrote in message
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"Lotus" wrote in message
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"Michael" wrote in message
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There are licks AND feed blocks. Both weigh about fifty pounds. The feed
blocks must be protected from the weather or they will crumble and become
inedible. The licks are solid enough to be either simply dropped in the
pasture or put in a salt block holder.

Fine, but the animals take of it ad-lib, which is different
from adding minerals to feed, which was my point.


Blocks are free access for the animals. Granulated minerals that are added
to the feed are the same materials but administered differently. Is there a
problem with that?

Nope, that's what I said.

What is your point, not a cut and paste from twenty years ago..

That dairy herds ingested more manganese, minerals having been
added directly to their feed, than suckler herds mostly grazing and
taking minerals ad-lib, which may also partially explain the higher
incidence of BSE in dairy herds than suckler herds.