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Animal Lick Salt
Why do animals like to lick salt?
Every day, they need salt to make milk which contains a good bit of sodium and chloride. If cows don't get enough salt, the first sign would be a loss of appetite and weight. In time, cows craving salt would start eating odd materials like dirt, rocks and wood to try to satisfy their instinctive taste for salt.
Do Horses like Salt?
We normally think of salt more as a warm weather requirement. Horses do require about 1-2 ounces of salt per day to provide help meet their requirement for sodium and chloride.
Benefits of Animal Licking Salt
- Decreases stressful behaviors such as constant licking, chewing on fences
- Strengthens immune system Increases milk yields by 5-15% (12.8%) .
- Helps animals develop shiny & healthy coats
- Helps harden the hooves of animals
- Restores salt lost by animals via sweating in hot climates
- Increase in the threshold at which animals/horses sweat with exercise.
- Reduces animal drowsiness
- Increases feed intake
- Increases animal weight
- Increased farm efficiency & productivity
