I followed you tuber Greg Judy regenerative farmer for a year (that’s enough) and found his methods of bringing back agriculturally exhausted land by his methods. One thing he did was to devise a mineral box with compartments containing the trace elements separately. The cattle only went for the minerals they needed. Since animals in the wild do this instinctively, sometimes travelling a great distance to source them,I guess it comes as no surprise that they crave what they need. It also makes sense to get a blood analysis to achieve what the animal would do for itself if it could. A pity there is a fair bit of snake oil sold to farmers that really should be regulated.

@anachronisticon

2 жыл бұрын

What I don't understand is where to get such minerals from in the UK? In what form the minerals are provided? it's always talked about as if it's self evident.

@classicambo9781

2 жыл бұрын

If cattle are anything like horses the evidence from clinical trials is very clear that they don't actually select for the minerals they are deficient in. They do not self medicate or selectively source food accurately. Not giving a properly balanced mineral supplement that is based on forage testing is a sure way to end up with deficiencies. Many people buy into the bullshit of 'natural practitioners'. In Australia that is invariably zinc, copper and iodine as a starting point.

@wendyrowland7787

2 жыл бұрын

@@classicambo9781 but I expect the wild Brumbies thrive, well that is other than during a prolonged drought.

@anachronisticon

2 жыл бұрын

@@classicambo9781 But what if forage testing is likely to be inaccurate? Our farm is almost entirely permanent pasture, with large hedgerows and huge variation in the makeup of the forage within the field. Any forage test is unlikely to reflect the proportion of what the livestock eat. Blood tests?