Sheep licks with Horses

[crbecky10]

We give our sheep the Extra high energy crystalyx (makers of horslyx), does anyone know of if would harm a pony if she was licking at it too? As she needs to be kept in the same field.

 

[Passtheshampoo]

I keep sheep and horses but never let my horses get to the sheep lick. Can you fence off a corner of the field with tape so the sheep can get in to the lick but the horses can't reach it.

 

[WelshD]

They are really high in sugar, I let my sheep have theirs when the ponies arent in the field (eg when stabled)

 

[sprytzer]

Think the copper content would poss be to much for a horse

 

[WelshD]

there is no copper in sheep licks beyond a trace usually

 

[sprytzer]

Must be getting muddled with the cattle ones then, but they are sheep, cattle and horse licks for a reason, each contain ingredients not suitable for other livestock....i certainly would never have dreamt of letting my horses near the cattle and sheep licks for that reason.

 

[amage]

Think the copper content would poss be to much for a horse

Hardly given that copper is highly toxic to sheep and thus their licks wouldn't generally have copper in them. A horse lick would kill sheep but not really vice versa.

 

[flirtygerty]

Must be getting muddled with the cattle ones then, but they are sheep, cattle and horse licks for a reason, each contain ingredients not suitable for other livestock....i certainly would never have dreamt of letting my horses near the cattle and sheep licks for that reason.

I agree with this, but try telling my 16 2 WB mare, built like a tank she can't have it, all of mine try to get these sheep licks on the way to the barn, all the rest accept that at best they get a little taste, the WB mare is like a pig in a trough, it literally takes two hands on her headcollar to get her head up, then I'm like Eddie Eagle in the mud getting her away from temptation, the licks we avoid smell strongly of molasses

 

[Exploding Chestnuts]

I agree with this, but try telling my 16 2 WB mare, built like a tank she can't have it, all of mine try to get these sheep licks on the way to the barn, all the rest accept that at best they get a little taste, the WB mare is like a pig in a trough, it literally takes two hands on her headcollar to get her head up, then I'm like Eddie Eagle in the mud getting her away from temptation, the licks we avoid smell strongly of molasses

Yes there are some which are molasses and urea to help digesting fibre, but the others are just minerals, like Horselix but for sheep.

 

[popsdosh]

Yes there are some which are molasses and urea to help digesting fibre, but the others are just minerals, like Horselix but for sheep.

Horselyx are molasses based aswell!!

 

[crbecky10]

Well I've been looking at the difference between the crystalyx and horslyx, they contain very similar ingredients, the horslyx actually contains more sugar! They are both molasses based and the horslyx contains more of a lot of the minerals/trace elements.

 

[fatpiggy]

Think the copper content would poss be to much for a horse

Its the other way around. You should never give horse feed to sheep because the copper content is too high and will poison sheep.

 

[WelshD]

Well I've been looking at the difference between the crystalyx and horslyx, they contain very similar ingredients, the horslyx actually contains more sugar! They are both molasses based and the horslyx contains more of a lot of the minerals/trace elements.

I wouldn't give a pony one of those either.