loose minerals?

[lissapell]

I have read about many of you using mineral blocks for your rabbits. Some seem to use a wheel some seem to chunk up a goat block and crock feed it. Is there a way to add loose minerals to my grain mix so its all in the same dish? I would like to avoid adding more items to the cage floor.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

I think you would need to get it to stick to the grain. MaggieJ sometimes mixes a little molasses with her grain if somebunny is doing poorly. I forget the ratio, but perhaps you could do that to a portion of the grain, add the minerals and stir to coat, and then mix it up with the rest.

 

[MaggieJ]

I'd be worried that they might ingest too much of the salt/minerals if it was mixed with the grain. Perhaps you could wire or zip-tie a little container to the wall of the cage to keep it from being underfoot.

 

[lissapell]

I have their grain container ties to the corner of each cage so I was concerned that a second container would be to much space.

 

[Frosted Rabbits]

Inguess one of us needs to devise an all purpose, all-in-one hopper!! of course, that would ,mean one whole wall of each cage is a nutritional wall!

 

[Frecs]

Inguess one of us needs to devise an all purpose, all-in-one hopper!! of course, that would ,mean one whole wall of each cage is a nutritional wall!

ummm...it could be designed kinda like one of those Fisher N' Price crib activity centers. :mrgreen:

 

[Miss M]

ummm...it could be designed kinda like one of those Fisher N' Price crib activity centers. :mrgreen:

:rotfl:

 

[Dood]

A salt block can hang from the wire.

I use to make my own from loose livestock mineral salt ($15/50lb bag) mixed with water and boiled down, then poured in ice cube trays, or Dixie cups with a plastic coated garbage tie looped in, then dehydrated in the oven on low.

Pelleted feed has salt added but if you feed hay and grains, they must have a salt source. I would worry about giving too much if mixed with their regular ration and the rabbits dumping the feed because it was too salty. However, it would be easy to sprinkle a pinch of the loose salt onto their food.

 

[Zab]

At least here, there are pelleted minerals for horses. Small pellets, I think that could be mixed with grain

We've used it since the horses are hgood at sorting out the sand-like minerals ad one of them over-use a slat/mineral block

 

[akane]

I've used loose minerals but I wasn't using any grain or pellets at the time so that was all that was in their feeders. They had no problem eating what they needed along with clover hay. I would not mix it with their feed because first they may eat more than they need trying to get the feed and 2nd they are going to leave a lot behind so your feeder slowly fills up with leftover mineral mix.