Common mineral deficiencies
What happens to animals not getting enough minerals in the right balance?
Here is a quick guide to demonstrate the sort of conditions that can be avoided, provided your animals are getting the right minerals.
Lack of Boron
- Arthritis
- Osteoporosis
- Bone malformations in young animals
Lack of Cobolt
- Sway Back
- Lack of apettite after illness
Lack of Copper
- Fungal diseases
- Anemia
- Cancer
- Failure to come into season
- Footrot
- Worm infestations
- Fence and bark chewing
- Staphylococcus Infections
- Diarrhoea
Lack of Iodine
- Goitre swell
- Too many male offspring
- Metabolic disorders
Lack of Potassium
- Urinary tract problems
- Difficulty in calving (for cows)
- Bloat (in ruminants with lack of Magnesium)
Lack of Sulphur
- Inabillty to assimilate selenium
- Lack of Amino acids in the gut
- Exterior parasistes
Lack of Selenium
- Reproductive issues
- White muscle problems
Lack of Zinc
- Eczema
- Prostate and reproductive problems
Lack of Calcium and/or Magnesium
- Bloat
- Bone deformities
- Chalky or soft teeth
- Laminitis
- Mastitis
- Nervous behaviour
- Osteoporoisis
- Peeling horns (goats and cows)
- Respiratory ailments
- Stringhalt
- Warts and other viral illnesses