Alternatives for copper supplementation

the al kid

Hi all,
just wondering is there any way of getting supplementary copper into cattle other than using boluses or the intra muscular copper .Just recovering from back surgery so the boluses are out:eek: and the intra muscular stuff leaves massive reactions at the injection site no matter how careful you are.The subcutaneous coprin injections were ideal but seem to have gone off the market.BTW i I farm in a high molybdenum area and copper supplementation is essential esp for young stock. Thanks in advance.

Al

Farmer Pudsey

A neighbour used to get a bag of Bluestone the fine powder not the crystals he put one heaped tea spoon for every four cattle 400 kgs into a plastic milk container and add a liitle hot water he would shake it until it would dissolve (5-6 sppons at a time) Then he would add this to some molasses and mix in a small 10 litre drum he put it into a watering can and drizzle onto troughs or blue barrels cut lenght ways. The cattle would come and lick it do not use too much molasses. He would feed them this every week seemed to work there was always a shine off them in the autumn when he did it

bbam

Look at the Mayo Healthcare website.
They have a product you hang in the drinkers and change every week or so. I've used it in the past and found it very handy.
Simple way to administer copper/minerals to cattle, they all drink water and fairly even amount too.

blue5000

mineral lick buckets, go for one with high chelated copper, because of the Mo