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

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

If they're not working, they don't require alot of salt, probably getting
all they need from the sulfur salt block.  You don't need to force anything
additional on them.

(And no, they're not getting it directly from the pasture, unless they're
eating dirt). :-)

Susan G


----- Original Message -----
From: Claudia Provin <provincmk@fanninelectric.com>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Saturday, May 27, 2000 5:00 PM
Subject: RC: Re: loose salt (was: No Sweat)


> 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???
>   Claudia
>
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