Intetesting that copper came up yesterday as I was talking to a livestock nutritioust on Friday about copper. Did you know that sheep can very safely conusume up to 7ppm of Cooper daily? Our industry has chosen to promote copper free when in reality our sheep do need some copper and there are startig to be some issues our there with copper deficiencies. We cam get custom mineral mixes here according to feed and soil samples, but a minimum of 400 lbs. That is a lot of mineral, even with 210 head! I generally mix in some cattle mineral with my sheep mineral. There are many vegetarian dog treats out there-even a tiny bit if meat is a concern. That is supposedly what caused BSE if you recall and has made a 8 year nightmare of the cattle industry in Canada. I am a little more inclinded to believe the story about pour on wieners causing BSE myself, but still herbavors should not eat animal products of any sort.
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