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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 5209470" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>They seem to.</p><p>It is fairly high in potash, of course - it is not really any different to eating burnt toast when you have an stomach upset, sometimes you need it, and sometimes you don't.</p><p>I have found my sheep eat more seaweed in certain paddocks and none in others, and cattle have a different pattern according to my notebook... so I feel it does depend to a degree what minerals they feel they need to forage for.</p><p>Certain paddocks I don't even bother supplementing them, but the younger grass they like a bit, and will nibble bits of char in there too.</p><p>Mature grass, not so much, as a generalisation - so I conclude their requirements are better met.</p><p></p><p>I don't believe that they simply don't understand what they are eating - it is reasonably apparent that animals are the true forage experts, they co evolved and did alright.</p><p>Deer wouldn't walk 5 miles through thick bush to nibble seaweed on an open beach just because they like the view? They do it because their diet is not complete, much as we crave fruit but may simply overeat desserts and other sweet things because we are misinterpreting the signals from our gut flora etc - probably the real crux of human nutrition disorders lies in misreading these clues, stemming from a mineral-poor diet; we continue to eat the wrong things, to satisfy "cravings"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 5209470, member: 63856"] They seem to. It is fairly high in potash, of course - it is not really any different to eating burnt toast when you have an stomach upset, sometimes you need it, and sometimes you don't. I have found my sheep eat more seaweed in certain paddocks and none in others, and cattle have a different pattern according to my notebook... so I feel it does depend to a degree what minerals they feel they need to forage for. Certain paddocks I don't even bother supplementing them, but the younger grass they like a bit, and will nibble bits of char in there too. Mature grass, not so much, as a generalisation - so I conclude their requirements are better met. I don't believe that they simply don't understand what they are eating - it is reasonably apparent that animals are the true forage experts, they co evolved and did alright. Deer wouldn't walk 5 miles through thick bush to nibble seaweed on an open beach just because they like the view? They do it because their diet is not complete, much as we crave fruit but may simply overeat desserts and other sweet things because we are misinterpreting the signals from our gut flora etc - probably the real crux of human nutrition disorders lies in misreading these clues, stemming from a mineral-poor diet; we continue to eat the wrong things, to satisfy "cravings" [/QUOTE]
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