To all of you that worried about copper. I have always put out a dry goat
mineral for my hair sheep. They also had access to a cattle mineral block
which they did use at times.
I have not had any toxicity problems.
TX may be one of those states that doesn't have copper naturally, I don't
know.
You have to remember that hair sheep have different requirements than wool
sheep.
Thank you,
Rhonda
- Original Message -
From: "Mary Swindell"
To:
Sent: Sunday, June 13, 2010 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [Blackbelly] Copper
Several years ago my friend and blackbelly sheep breeder Barb Lee posted
quite a bit of correspondence to this e-mail list regarding some
nutritional problems she was seeing in her sheep. She concluded that her
sheep were actually suffering from a copper deficiency, and she had quite
a bit of data to back up that conclusion. Her sheep began to improve once
she added an appropriate level of copper as a supplement to their diet.
It was very interesting because like Carla's note below, Barb said
essentially that because copper-free sheep diets have been promoted so
heavily, many sheep breeders overlook the fact that their flocks can
sometimes actually be suffering from too LITTLE copper. I do not know if
Barb is still subscribed to this e-mail list, but if you are Barb, it
would be very helpful if you could give us the basics of this information
again!
Thanks in advance,
Mary Swindell
At 05:00 PM 6/13/2010, you wrote:
Message: 3
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 06:41:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Carla Amonson
To: "blackbelly@lists.blackbellysheep.info"
Subject: [Blackbelly] Copper
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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.
Carla Amonson
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