Himalayan Rock Salt

Tomjim

Anyone know how much this retails at.

I got a piece and am happy with it. Had an in calf heifer who was struggling on slats and is now much improved once I left lick available

It it any good for grass tetnany

Beauty of it is it lasts a long time as it is not sweet

stanflt

Tomjim wrote: »

Anyone know how much this retails at.

I got a piece and am happy with it. Had an in calf heifer who was struggling on slats and is now much improved once I left lick available

It it any good for grass tetnany

Beauty of it is it lasts a long time as it is not sweet

1 ton is 400 delivered

Reggie.

Tomjim wrote: »

Anyone know how much this retails at.

I got a piece and am happy with it. Had an in calf heifer who was struggling on slats and is now much improved once I left lick available

It it any good for grass tetnany

Beauty of it is it lasts a long time as it is not sweet

Any use to put it out with out wintered bullocks

mahoney_j

stanflt wrote: »

1 ton is 400 delivered

370 down here Stan ,got a tonne of it on offer at ploughing .have a block per bay in all sheds ,peior to feeding it I was finding lots of cud balls at front of cubicles ,none since and there's always some ainmal kicking them .

jd06

mahoney_j wrote: »

370 down here Stan ,got a tonne of it on offer at ploughing .have a block per bay in all sheds ,peior to feeding it I was finding lots of cud balls at front of cubicles ,none since and there's always some ainmal kicking them .

Bought two bits just to try it
1 euro a ķģ

stanflt

jd06 wrote: »

Bought two bits just to try it
1 euro a ķģ

I could sell it to you at that price

Sam Kade

Is it just snake oil or is it proven to be of benefit to livestock?

ganmo

Sam Kade wrote: »

Is it just snake oil or is it proven to be of benefit to livestock?

Salt is needed by animals so yes there is some good to stock after that I don't know and neither do the ppl selling it.
By right you should get a spec with it when ya get it detailing exactly what's in it.
I was chatting to a dept inspector earlier in the year who wasn't happy with how it's being sold

Nekarsulm

ganmo wrote: »

I was chatting to a dept inspector earlier in the year who wasn't happy with how it's being sold

No doubt he thinks it should be an inspection issue.

ganmo

Nekarsulm wrote: »

No doubt he thinks it should be an inspection issue.

he was gung ho for trying to ban the stuff

Miname

Have it here and honestly couldn't say if it's any good. Have the cows on seaweed too which I'd swear by, so should be fairly well covered.

farawaygrass

Miname wrote: »

Have it here and honestly couldn't say if it's any good. Have the cows on seaweed too which I'd swear by, so should be fairly well covered.

There is a lad close by to me selling it. Was thinking of getting it last year but didn't in the end. How do you find it good?

Miname

farawaygrass wrote: »

There is a lad close by to me selling it. Was thinking of getting it last year but didn't in the end. How do you find it good?

The seaweed is brilliant stuff but couldn't say for the salt. Seaweed imo is the pick of minerals.

frazzledhome

Have ye all gone mad?

€400 per tonne for something with no research behind it.

€400 would get a nice weekend away, buy Santy for kids,

1 Tonne 18/6/12

€400 spent on fa safety?

jaymla627

frazzledhome wrote: »

Have ye all gone mad?

€400 per tonne for something with no research behind it.

€400 would get a nice weekend away, buy Santy for kids,

1 Tonne 18/6/12

€400 spent on fa safety?

Tons of articles on the benefits of salt in cows diet, use the nutritbo salt licks here usually from Jan to march when calving is in full swing....
Started in Dec this year cows went up a litre a day when the blocks where put in on exact same diet and still holding at 15 litres as I speak....
The science is their it's not some of the witchcraft products that are on the market

stanflt

frazzledhome wrote: »

Have ye all gone mad?

€400 per tonne for something with no research behind it.

€400 would get a nice weekend away, buy Santy for kids,

1 Tonne 18/6/12

€400 spent on fa safety?

Sure with the extra 1.5 litres per cow from the rock salt and 2 litres from the Keenan feeder and 2 litres from the green cubicles my cows will be flying


Not using any other minerals and monitor blood results so will see if it saves any money

ganmo

jaymla627 wrote: »

Tons of articles on the benefits of salt in cows diet, use the nutritbo salt licks here usually from Jan to march when calving is in full swing....
Started in Dec this year cows went up a litre a day when the blocks where put in on exact same diet and still holding at 15 litres as I speak....
The science is their it's not some of the witchcraft products that are on the market

yes but what dawg is saying that you can get normal feed grade rock salt cheaper at least 100 quid a ton cheaper than the himilyian stuff, it might come in bags and need to be top dressed on the silage or put in a bucket.

keep going

im always sceptical of anything that promises "12 %"more milk or whatever and have a policey of only buying the bare essentials-feed fert diesel lime doses and minerals for 2 months precalving and thats more or less it.but maybe thats where im going wrong when i see some of the litres ye are horsing out but i have found that you use these things for a while and then you stop and dosent seem to make any difference either end

Blue Holland

Done a quick google search and found this, can't say how reliable it is but I think as far as benefit of feeding salt to cattle i'll stick with the 10-15% thats in bagged mineral.

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/pass-the-salt-but-not-that-pink-himalayan-stuff/

Bonus question: What kind of salt should we use?

A related question is whether some kinds of salt are healthier than others. Sea salt, table salt, kosher salt, flavored salt, fleur de sel, Hiwa Kai, Black Hawaiian Sea Salt, Kala Namak, “organic salt,” and Pink Himalayan Sea Salt are all basically the same chemical, sodium chloride. Only the trace amounts of other substances vary. Table salt is fortified with iodine and is a highly effective way to prevent iodine deficiency and goiter. Gourmet cooks swear by the taste differences of different salt varieties.

(Don’t eat Epsom salt. You’d regret it: it’s has a significant laxative effect when taken internally.)

Pink Himalayan sea salt was introduced to me by an e-mail correspondent who questioned the claim that it contained “84 trace minerals that promote health and well being.” I questioned it too, so I did a little research.

Mike Adams, the infamous Health Ranger, explains that Himalayan Pink Crystal Salt contains the full complement of minerals and trace elements “just like Mother Earth intended.” It is an unrefined, unprocessed raw salt mined by hand from salt caves that formed 250 million years ago as ocean salt settled into geologic pockets. It is stone-ground, which apparently doesn’t count as “processing.” Table salt is bad stuff, you see, since it was processed to remove all the good stuff and then they had to replace the iodine because people who ate it started to get goiters. Oh, and incidentally he sells the good stuff on his website and even offers a discount.

I found a website that reports the results of a spectral analysis of Himalayan salt. I think this is where the claim comes from. Even if this analysis is accurate, it is meaningless for health and if anything is worrisome. The amount of minerals in it is too minuscule to make any difference, and we already get plenty of the same trace minerals from other foods. They claim that two double-blind studies were done, but no such studies are listed in PubMed. There is no evidence published in peer-reviewed journals that replacing white salt with pink salt makes a shred of difference or leads to any improvement in health.

If you read down the list of minerals, you will notice that it includes a number of radioactive substances like radium, uranium, and polonium. It also includes substances that act as poisons, like thallium. I wouldn’t be worried, since the amounts are so small; but if anyone believes the trace amounts of “good” minerals in Himalayan sea salt are good for you, why not believe the trace amounts of poisons and radioactive elements are bad for you?

The claim that pink Himalayan salt contains 84 trace minerals may be true, but the claim that it “promotes health and wellness” is false until proven otherwise by legitimate clinical studies. While waiting for evidence, I’d just as soon my salt didn’t contain uranium.

kowtow

frazzledhome wrote:

€400 would... buy Santy for kids,

As far as Santa is concerned I'm told that research doesn't back up his sales claims at all. Some doubt that he even exists.

You might as well lash it out on the rock salt.

stanflt

kowtow wrote: »

As far as Santa is concerned I'm told that research doesn't back up his sales claims at all. Some doubt that he even exists.

You might as well lash it out on the rock salt.

Take a bow

A true gem

J.O. Farmer

kowtow wrote: »

As far as Santa is concerned I'm told that research doesn't back up his sales claims at all. Some doubt that he even exists.

You might as well lash it out on the rock salt.

Don't they say that the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was to covince the world he never existed.