question about offering salt/minerals and holders

[JoannaCW]

As my rabbits switch from pellets to natural feeds, and as the weather gets warmer, I figure they should have access to salt. I have a cattle/swine/horse mineralized salt block from which I could cut small chunks, but I'm not sure what sort of holder the salt block requires. How do you offer salt?

I have also heard that you can soak wood in salt water and put it in for the rabbits to chew on. Has anyone here tried this?

 

[MamaSheepdog]

I live in a dry climate, so I just put the chunks of salt on the cage floor. In a high humidity area salt on the wire will cause rust. You can punch a couple of holes in a tuna can and ziptie it to the wire. I recently found some little candle holder (?) bowls at DollarTree that have a lip and I ziptie those to the cage to offer supplements in.

I buy the 50lb red salt/mineral blocks for my rabbits and knock chunks off with a hammer.

I have also heard that you can soak wood in salt water and put it in for the rabbits to chew on. Has anyone here tried this?

I haven't tried it, but read about that method in The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery. I'm not sure if it would actually provide enough salt though.

 

[JoannaCW]

As my rabbits switch from pellets to natural feeds, and as the weather gets warmer, I figure they should have access to salt. I have a cattle/swine/horse mineralized salt block from which I could cut small chunks, but I'm not sure what sort of holder the salt block requires. Do you give straight salt or a salt/mineral combination or neither? If you feed salt, is it loose or in a block, and what kind of holder do you use?

I have also heard that you can soak wood in salt water and put it in for the rabbits to chew on. Has anyone here tried this?

 

[Sagebrush]

I see MSD beat me to it!! :lol:
I was going to day you could use a tuna fish tin that is cleaned out. Make two holes into the side of the tin and using a ziptie attach to the cage.

 

[MamaSheepdog]

I live in a dry climate, so I just put the chunks of salt on the cage floor. In a high humidity area salt on the wire will cause rust. You can punch a couple of holes in a tuna can and ziptie it to the wire. I recently found some little candle holder (?) bowls at DollarTree that have a lip and I ziptie those to the cage to offer supplements in.

I buy the 50lb red salt/mineral blocks for my rabbits and knock chunks off with a hammer.

JoannaCW wrote:I have also heard that you can soak wood in salt water and put it in for the rabbits to chew on. Has anyone here tried this?



I haven't tried it, but read about that method in The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery. I'm not sure if it would actually provide enough salt though.

***Please don't cross-post the same question to different forums, as it ruins the continuity of the replies.

I have merged your post from Cages, hutches, and equipment, and edited your title to address the question of holders.

 

[akane]

I have these now http://www.statelinetack.com/item/himal ... SLT901558/ They will probably last longer than your rabbit and I just tie them from the top of the cage so it doesn't hit wire. They also come in the form that fits small block holders for individual horses in a stall.

Prior to that I used soft horse mineral blocks not the trace mineral and salt but full mineral mix or loose goat or horse minerals in a separate feed dish. Rabbits also go crazy for these http://www.statelinetack.com/item/manna ... SLT208768/ but they are a little expensive to supply to most entire rabbitries as the only supplement source. We feed them out once a month.