Benefits of ammonia chloride in feed

[valtraman]

Just comparing cattle feeds & prices & have been asked if I require ammonia chloride in it ? I’m not sure what does it do & benefits ? I’m feeding beef suckled calves

 

[Norfolk Hill Farmer]

I think it’s to stop urinary stones

 

[Whitepeak]

It's usually included in intensive lamb finisher rations to help prevent urinary calculi (stones) in tup and wether lambs. Makes them drink more and so flush themselves out more frequently I think.
Suckled calves should be fine without it I'd have thought providing they have plenty of forage and water.

 

[Pistonbroke]

We have a lamb finishing blend and it's in one of the pellets. If it gets damp in troughs or hoppers it goes bitter or something because they will sort through and leave it. Ok if fed and cleared straight away

 

[Lemon curd]

It makes the urine acidic so that phos and mag crystals dissolve to prevent a blockage in the pipe between the bladder and the exit. Wether lambs are more prone than tup lambs to calculi.