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What Is The Importance Of Salt For Your Livestock

What Is The Importance Of Salt For Your LivestockThe elements of common salt, sodium and chlorine, are essential for animal life. They are part of several functions in maintaining osmotic pressure in body cells which is vital to the transfer of nutrients and waste products across the cell membrane. Salt is a major component of fluid blood, which contains about 0.17% of both Continue reading

4 Top Tips to Get Your Pets Through Hot Weather

4 Tops Tips to Get Your Pets Through Hot WeatherOur pets are some of our nearest and dearest. So the team at Valley Rural Supplies has constructed a tip sheet to help protect and keep your pets cool this Summer.

Cool Water
When it is hot, the last thing you want to drink is hot water. If you pets are kept outside put out at least two sources of water. Consider the direction of the sun as it moves through the day and supply your pet with options so they can always have fresh water that hasn’t been sitting in the sun.

Plenty of Shade & Air Flow
Shade is important for outside pets to self manage Continue reading

Are Block based Supplements Effective?

Are Block based Supplements Effective?In the early 1920’s it was found that animals that were given separately protein, energy and minerals and allowed to decide the proportions of each ingredient for themselves, out-performed those that were fed a fully mixed “ideal” ration.

Even today, although soil and plant analysis is available, these tests have little correlation to what is happening in the animal. Individual animals in fact, need different combinations of nutrients on any one day.

Thus it has been found that Continue reading