question about offering salt/minerals and holders

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JoannaCW

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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?
 
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":yedwzv9z said:
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.
 
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?
 
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.
 
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.
 
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