Mineral Blocks
Minerals and vitamins are essential to all livestock throughout the year. They supplement the deficiencies associated with poor roughage, high quality forage crops such as Maize and Whole crop silages and seasonally challenging times such as Spring turnout.
Gloucester Animal Feeds supply a comprehensive range of products in convenient, easy to feed ways.
Minerals and vitamins maintain the health and vitality of livestock and have a direct influence on growth and production in modern intensive farming systems.
Powdered Minerals and Vitamins
Supplied in 25K bags. Powdered minerals/vitamins contain molasses and spices to reduce dust and encourage intake when offered ad lib or sprinkled onto silage etc. in-feed versions do not contain molasses and spice and are slightly cheaper.
General purpose cattle - an all round mineral suitable for dairy cows, cattle, calves on forage based feeding systems.
High phosphorous cattle – to add to grass silage systems where phosphorous is known to be deficient.
Ultra – bioguard No 3 – a high quality, speciality mineral containing protected trace elements to aid fertility in dairy cattle.
Cattle high magnesium – formulated specially for use during Spring and Autumn when cattle are grazing lush grass to prevent ‘ grass staggers’ or ‘hypomagnesaemia’
Dry cow minerals – carefully prepared to supply the correct balance of minerals and vitamins for dry cows on roughage and grazing.
Maize balancer – cattle – for use with high inclusions of maize and whole crop silages or when the extra calcium is required i.e. on high cereal grain diets.
TMR balancer – ideal for complete mixed diet systems including several forage sources.
Intensive beef – the complete balancer for cereal based home mixed rations for beef cattle. Also suitable for forage/cereal based systems.
Sheep general purpose – an all round mineral for home mixed feed for ewes. In Spring extra magnesium may be required. Do not use for intensively fed lambs.
Mineral Blocks
Mineral blocks are generally salt based, hard cakes which can be placed in a feed manger, tied to a post/gate or left on the ground for stock to lick.
Cattle licks – contains salt, major minerals and trace elements including copper, 2 x 10Kg per pack.
General purpose lick – suitable for all ruminants and horses. Does not contain copper, 2 x 10Kg per pack.
Salt licks – contains 100% pure salt in a small brick form. 4 x 2.5Kg per pack.
Molassed mineral buckets – very palatable molassed mineral licks conveniently supplied in 20Kg buckets.
Dry cow buckets – ideal for feeding dry cows at pasture or in loose yards indoors. Ensures optimum fertility and strong healthy calves.
General purpose buckets – convenient for feeding all cattle but especially beef cattle and rearing heifers on pasture or winter forage.
Rumevite Personal Energy& Protein Block 22,5Kg
Convenient feed blocks providing a range of ingredients including cereals, proteins, molasses, minerals and vitamins.