What minerals do cows need to stop eating wood?

Answer 1

Actually, its primarily one type of mineral that they need: Phosphorus. Phosphorus can be supplemented in a loose mineral mix from some sources including dicalcium phosphate, deflourinated phosphate, bone meal, soft phosphate, sodium phosphate, ammonium poliphosphate, orthophosphates, metaphosphates, pyrophosphates, and tripolyphosphate. Oilseed meals and animal and fish products contain large amounts of phosphorous. Grains, grain-by-products and high-protein supplements are fairly high in phosphorus thus rations that are high in these type of ingredients require little to no phosphorus supplementation.

Answer 2

Loose mineral is better than a salt block. You can get minerals for cattle at your local feed store. The standard mineral block is the blue block that contains Cobalt and Iodine. Other blocks contain more minerals, such as Selenium, Iron, Manganese, Potassium, Magnesium, Copper, etc. There are also mineral mix that contains proteins (be very careful about this due to concerns w/ BSE) and calcium for breeding herds/lactating cows. You can get a specific mineral mix from your local feed mill according to the kind of cows you have and what you feed them.

Answer 3

I would personally not give them minerals for i am nice to animals