Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't it was the feeding of sheep
bonemeal thy led to the prion that first caused Mad Cow disease. And
aren't there mandates against feeding livestock, especially
herbivores, animal biproducts?
Curtis
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Hi Mary,
This has been discussed at length, as you know. I don't think Barb Lee is a
member of this list any longer, however, there are interesting posts from
her and other members in the archives regarding copper requirements for
sheep.
Anyone interested can go to:
http://www.mail-arch
My previous post eluded to the a little is good, a lot is bad. Since there
are those that believe any copper is bad, I was trying to be cautious.
We definitely saw an improvement when we added copper to the mineral mix.
Interesting, we found an old study that used copper as a wormer. We tried
it
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
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 st
