Re: Trace elements and TB



"Tim Lamb" <tim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Selenium is still part of the mineral mix I use for home feed
> production. I don't know of any enhanced TB susceptibility but low
> levels of Selenium in dams was suggested as a possible cause of eye
> defects in bought in calves.

I'll have to ask a couple of the firms when the holiday staggers to a halt

>
> If you had to kill Badgers with a shotgun I suppose SSG rounds (9
> pellets) or buckshot would be effective and certainly more humane than
> using a rifle on a moving target at night.

Mind you, can you just see the look of the chief constables face when he
hears they are handing out buckshot! Certainly it would be far more
sensible, but I think that there is some thought given to good old fashioned
carbon monoxide from tractor exhausts

>
> I use ammonium sulphate on cereals but not grass.
>

It would be interesting to know just how much is used

--

Jim Webster.
Pat Gardiner, Five years raving about bent vets and still no result



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