Re: RC: Re: loose salt (was: No Sweat)

[CMKSAGEHIL@aol.com]

In a message dated 5/27/00 1:56:59 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
provincmk@fanninelectric.com writes:

<< I live in hot, often dry, Texas.   My horses (just pasture horses, no work)
 don't seem to really want any salt---the only salt they will lick is the
 sulfur salt--they totally ignore white salt and mineral salt blocks.    I
 have figured that they must be getting salt through the grass somehow (is
 that too far-fetched???)   I have tried some free choice mineral/salt----it
 got snarfed up by the goats and essentially ignored by the horses.    Do I
 need to force these guys to eat some salt??? >>

No, I wouldn't worry about it.  Make sure it's available, and if they are 
preferring one type over another, I'd stick with that.

Heidi