What salt do you feed?

[BBP]

Mine won’t tuch the stuff, not in licks or loose, it’s really annoying as everyone says how important salt is for their health! Even a pinch and he turns his nose up at it. But my grass is very high in sodium and chloride so not sure if that means he is getting enough that way?

 

[Sussexbythesea]

I don't add to feed normally and just use the Himalayan salt licks. In summer in very hot weather I do add an electrolyte supplement.

 

[poiuytrewq]

Just a possibility as so many of us use salt rocks, and I've only just found this out!
The rocks on string cost what £6-£9 each? My local feed place hidden away in plain sacks so I've never noticed have bags of them for £9 a bag which had a good 4/5 big chunks one massive one and several smaller bits. Huge saving.
I put them in buckets.

 

[JennBags]

Some horses are not all by a long stretch. Himalyan salt also contains iron which most horses arent deficient in.

I feed table salt from whichever supermarket I happen to be in when I need it. I am aware of the fuss about caking agent but I only feed 40gms most days so I'm not unduly concerned.

I rhought I'd heard this before and it makes me reluctant to order the Himalayan salt. I use supermarket brand table salt too but was trying to find a better alternative, seems there isn't any.

 

[Reacher]

my horses won't touch mineral licks. I added supermarket salt to bucket feed for years and years but recently was advised by a hoof person not to use it due to that anti caking agent. So I have just bought sea salt from ebay. I am sure the anti caking agent isn't harmful else it wouldn't be allowed to be sold but I am sufficiently paranoid / gullible....
I recently had a grass analysis and it turns out my grass is high in iodine - maybe because we are coastal
(Bloody kindle, I typed all this out the hit the wrong button and lost it all!)

 

[Reacher]

A very quick internet search for minerals in himalayan salt gives macrominerals as calcium, chloride, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium and sodium
The pink colour being iron oxides.(copied from live strong.com)

 

[ycbm]

De-icing salt in 25 kg bags, from a nearby Cheshire salt mine. No additives, just the same as you put in your grinder. 50g a day.

 

[windand rain]

I just chuck a handful of table salt into the water when I soak the grassnuts all eat it that way

 

[tallyho!]

Some horses are not all by a long stretch. Himalyan salt also contains iron which most horses arent deficient in.

I feed table salt from whichever supermarket I happen to be in when I need it. I am aware of the fuss about caking agent but I only feed 40gms most days so I'm not unduly concerned.

Actually, most UK horses are over-supplemented with iron. Iron is high in UK soils. It's iodine that is lacking.

 

[Leo Walker]

Thats what I said about the iron? I think my appalling grammar confused you :lol:

I dont think very many are deficient in iodine though. I know the places I've had them that the top soil contains a lot of iodine. Isnt too much iodine the reason people stopped feeding seaweed?

 

[Toby_Zaphod]

I don't put salt in the food, each has a himalayan salt block strung on their wall which they use when they want.

 

[tallyho!]

Thats what I said about the iron? I think my appalling grammar confused you :lol:

I dont think very many are deficient in iodine though. I know the places I've had them that the top soil contains a lot of iodine. Isnt too much iodine the reason people stopped feeding seaweed?

oh yes! You're right I am very easily confused!

 

[lottiepony]

I was advised that it should be iodised salt you should add. Both my boys have access to salt licks and i add salt into one of their feeds. Not a massive amount - 50g for the one that weighs 570kg and 20g for pony at 288kg.