Rockies Baby Mineralised Salt Lick – 2kg

Rockies Baby Red Mineralised Salt Lick – 2kg

Baby Red is the small block in the Rockies equine range: a compressed mineralised salt lick that hangs in a holder or sits in the manger, left for the horse to take as it wants rather than measured out. Rockies describe it as carrying seven vital minerals, with supplementary copper for bones, joints, growth and fertility, and magnesium to help take the edge off a stressy horse.

Free-access salt is the simplest thing you can do for a horse's mineral intake, and the small block suits a single horse or pony better than a 10kg agricultural lick that will sit outside weathering for a year. The red colour marks it as the copper-supplemented block — that matters, because copper is exactly what a sheep must not have.

Performance & Benefits

• Mineralised salt lick carrying seven minerals, offered free access rather than fed by weight.
• Supplementary copper, which Rockies link to bone and joint health, growth and fertility.
• Magnesium included, which Rockies say helps reduce stress.
• Compressed block that stands up to being licked at over weeks rather than crumbling in a day.
• Small block size, sized for one horse or pony in a stable or small paddock.

Suitable For

• Horses and ponies of any age, at grass or stabled.
• Cattle, deer and goats, all of which tolerate supplementary copper.
• Horses on a forage-only diet, where trace minerals are most likely to be short.
• Absolutely not for sheep. Rockies make separate sheep licks for that reason — a copper-supplemented block is the wrong one to put in a field sheep can reach.

Feeding

• Offer free access in a lick holder, in the manger or in a shallow tray in the field.
• Site it under cover where you can, as rain washes a salt block away faster than a horse can use it.
• Fresh water must be available whenever salt is on offer.
• Rockies publish no feeding rate for this block — it is designed to be taken to appetite.

Composition & Analysis

• Rockies describe the block as a mineralised salt lick with seven vital minerals including supplementary copper and magnesium.
• Rockies publish no analytical breakdown for this lick — no salt percentage and no figure for copper, magnesium, zinc, iodine, cobalt, manganese or selenium appears on their own website, so none is stated here.
• The block weight is given as 2kg in this store's title; Rockies do not publish a weight for the Baby range on their site.

Care & Caution

• Contains added copper. Never offer this lick where sheep can reach it — sheep store copper in the liver and a copper-supplemented lick can kill them.
• Water must be freely available at all times. A horse taking salt without water available is a real risk, not a formality.
• Take the block out of a stable if a horse starts eating rather than licking it, which occasionally happens with a bored or salt-deficient horse.