Copper Question

CaliannG · #21 02/09/12, 11:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Jyllie63

I like this copper pipe idea! Once I get them moved to their "summer" home I may try this. Right now they share a water bucket with our horse and I'm not sure about horses and copper so I better not try it.

Horses copper needs are nearly as high as goats. That's why they have the copper-rich mineral blocks for horses now, as well as other copper things for them to ingest.

My horses and goats share water, as the trough is situated to serve both sides of the fence. My horses also have the high-copper mineral block next to the water trough, and they get a high copper feed. They are rescues and, when I first got them, were copper deficient.

where I want to · #22 02/09/12, 12:18 PM

I haven't read anything about bolusing versus loose copper rods since I read something on a blog that a woman had xrays done after loose, orally fed rods and found the rods lodged where in the same place as the bolused ones.
I did read an old Scandinavian university study that said it was important to bolus otherwise the rods tended to poop out or dissolve too fast.
Anyone got better info than this about how important it is to get it down in one fell swoop or not?

Alice In TX/MO · #23 02/09/12, 02:38 PM

See the links above.

Here's the marshmallow x-rays. Yup, marshmallows, peanut butter crackers, etc. It all works fine. They all go to the wall of the digestive system and lodge there, dissolving merrily over the course of a few months.

http://www.goatspots.com/copper.html

Jyllie63 · #24 02/09/12, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Alice In TX/MO

See the links above.

Here's the marshmallow x-rays. Yup, marshmallows, peanut butter crackers, etc. It all works fine. They all go to the wall of the digestive system and lodge there, dissolving merrily over the course of a few months.

http://www.goatspots.com/copper.html

I believe this was the website I referenced when I decided to use the marshmallows. I'm going to make jelly sandwiches this weekend

Jyllie63 · #25 02/09/12, 02:47 PM

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Originally Posted by CaliannG

Horses copper needs are nearly as high as goats. That's why they have the copper-rich mineral blocks for horses now, as well as other copper things for them to ingest.

My horses and goats share water, as the trough is situated to serve both sides of the fence. My horses also have the high-copper mineral block next to the water trough, and they get a high copper feed. They are rescues and, when I first got them, were copper deficient.

Very good to know!