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Location: Kentucky | What kind of salt block is best to buy at TSC? Red, yellow, white? I've always used red but didn't know if there was a better option. |
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Location: Kansas | I use both the yellow and white, yellow tends to go faster lol |
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| My horses never licked regular blocks but they love their Himalayan salt on a rope. I tie them up around their pens. Has some texture to it. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | Isn't the red a mineral block? I've always bought red and white.... and my gelding still likes to lick his corral panels clean. Maybe I should give the yellow a try! lol |
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Location: Winging It in KY | I have used the red and white. Not sure I have ever used the yellow. Might have to check out the Himalayan salt. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | I work at a feed store that is owned by TSC (it's called Del's and I think they're mainly in WA, OR, ID and there are two in Hawaii) so I'm assuming the colors of blocks are the same. Red is a trace mineral, white is just plain salt basically, and yellow has selenium. So it just depends on what you think your horse needs.
My horses get red, I've never put out a yellow for them though. They are all on a vitamin supplement with selenium in it (PNW is a selenium deficient area, so most of the supplements made by PNW-based companies add enough in it).
At our store we also have "pink", which is iodized. My dad buys all 4 colors for our cows.
Edited by livexlovexrodeo 2015-03-23 9:35 AM
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Location: Bandera, TX | I got free samples of the Himalayan salt licks once. My horses didn't understand the concept and wouldn't touch it..... |
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Location: Willows, CA | There is so little added mineral in the red that it is just a con to get your money. I personally use Redmond. It is 8 1/2 % mineral other than salt, and my horses like it. The red blocks are 1 1/2% mineral other than salt, and that mostly just to make it red. When the heat and humidity are both high, my horses will eat the Redmond salt better than any other form. For the record, I do not sell it. |
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| Doesn't the yellow have Sulfur in it? |
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Location: Kentucky | FlyingJT - 2015-03-23 11:24 AM Doesn't the yellow have Sulfur in it?
Yes.
I may try out the Redmond Rock. I think they sell it at my TSC. |
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| Yellow has sulphur in it. I've gone with the SmartPak Vitamins and Minerals, and you can add a tsp or so of just plain old table salt to their grain daily if you need to. Horses and salt licks are usually pointless. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | There are two that are "yellow", one is sulfur, the other is an added selenium. The store I work at only has the added selenium, we don't have the sulfur block. I think the sulfur one is more yellow when you compare them side by side. |
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Location: Pacific Northwest | classicpotatochip - 2015-03-23 8:44 AM
Yellow has sulphur in it. I've gone with the SmartPak Vitamins and Minerals, and you can add a tsp or so of just plain old table salt to their grain daily if you need to. Horses and salt licks are usually pointless.
That's kind of how I feel. Mine really have never been interested in any kind of block, I'm not sure if its because they've always gotten a complete vitamin or what. Each horse has a block available but only one actually licks theirs. |
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| I never use salt blocks. Horses need 2 tablespoons of salt daily. I put that amount of loose salt in their feed everyday. If they don't need it they will leave it. The vet told me once that a horse would have lick a long time to get what they need from a salt block. |
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Location: Phoenix | Following. I'm due to get another block. |
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| streakysox - 2015-03-23 10:52 AM
I never use salt blocks. Horses need 2 tablespoons of salt daily. I put that amount of loose salt in their feed everyday. If they don't need it they will leave it. The vet told me once that a horse would have lick a long time to get what they need from a salt block.
They'll bite and scrape their teeth along it too.... Giving free choice salt isn't pointless, they'll take what they need and leave what they don't. |
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Midget Lover
Location: Kentucky | I put free choice out last summer. They passed that up to go to the salt block. |
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The Resident Destroyer of Liberal Logic
Location: PNW | I keep a Redmond block in the bottom of the feed bin in the stalls. My horse licks it, scrapes his teeth on it, and just plain bites it if he needs to. |
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Hungarian Midget Woman
Location: Midwest | I use white. Mine goes through them quickly. He won't touch the red ones though. |
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Location: Oklahoma & Texas | Im a freak about mineral/salt licks.. they have redmonds on a rope in their stalls, the flavored ones in their hay trough's (peppermint) in their stalls and red ones in the pasture... no excuse to be short lol.. and they seem to like the red in the pasture the best.. although i think some of that is peer pressure.. they see one lick on it and figure they must know something the other doesn't and then they line up and take turns lol.. |
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Rad Dork
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Location: Oklahoma | svincent - 2015-03-23 11:03 AM I keep a Redmond block in the bottom of the feed bin in the stalls. My horse licks it, scrapes his teeth on it, and just plain bites it if he needs to.
I'll have to look into these.... anything to keep my gelding from scraping his water tank! gah, it's annoying!! |
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Location: Back in MT BABY!!! | We have always done a variety of salt blocks for our horses....Traditionally we will offer White, Green(this is trace mineral w/selenium), and Yellow (sulfer). The horses LOVE the sulfer block!!! They will go through this twice as fast as the other two. That being said we just did a test and our horses are also showing they are low in Cobalt so now we are giving them a Blue block! |
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Location: Nowhere Land | I find that the Himalayan Salt Licks last much longer and horses love them most of my "picky" eaters wont touch a regular salt block. The Himalayan ones have a "smoother" surface they seem to enjoy them much more. |
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Location: Texas | My horse loves his Himalayan as well |
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Location: Piedmont, OK | I was told by my grandpa to put yellow ones out in the summer it helps keeps ticks off because it has sulphur. |
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Location: Kansas | soonergirl98 - 2015-03-23 2:11 PM I was told by my grandpa to put yellow ones out in the summer it helps keeps ticks off because it has sulphur.
that is why I put the yellow out...I've never really had an issue with ticks when I use them. Spiders on the other hand........ICK! They are everywhere in my horses pasture!!!! |
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Location: Lost in the swamps | I have all three(white,yellow,red) in each pasture, I let them choose what they need. |
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Location: Jersey Girl | I always have the mineral and regular (white) salt blocks available to my horses. IMO its part of good horse keeping.
I didn't know there was a yellow one..... |
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Location: That part of Texas | fulltiltfilly - 2015-03-23 8:16 PM I always have the mineral and regular (white) salt blocks available to my horses. IMO its part of good horse keeping.
I didn't know there was a yellow one.....
I always have some form of mineral block and salt out too. I will have to try the others this summer. I must have freaky horses because all of them like the blocks and will lick/bite/eat them from time to time. I didn't ever consider it a waste but something that was necessary as good horsekeeping too. |
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Location: SE KS | FlyingJT - 2015-03-23 10:24 AM
Doesn't the yellow have Sulfur in it?
This is what I thought too!!! We get them bc of the sulphur to help keep the flies off the horses. |
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