Iodine

[Beef farmer]

just had the blood results back, low on iodine levels.
Apart from bolus how are people supplementing iodine?
Thanks in advance

 

[upnortheast]

Someone was telling me once that pouring iodine along the animals back was the answer.
Never did work out if he was taking the pee, or not

 

[boumaticboy]

20ml iodine along their back to bring levels up but only lasts a week then aquadine tablets go in water trough one tablet per cow per week.not that handy if moving fields or paddocks regularly

 

[TomB]

Syringe full in the water trough daily for close calving cows

 

[Wee Willy]

Vet told me using an iodine based teat dip provided all that's required.

 

[le bon paysan]

just had the blood results back, low on iodine levels.
Apart from bolus how are people supplementing iodine?
Thanks in advance

We use these, 2 months before calving

ALL-TRACE® HIGH IODINE CATTLE | Agrimin

Agrimin manufacture and distribute trace element, mineral and specialist nutritional products.

www.agrimin.co.uk

Low in Iodine and Selenium here

 

[Beef farmer]

Vet told me using an iodine based teat dip provided all that's required.

That's what we use already but still low.

 

[Beef farmer]

Syringe full in the water trough daily for close calving cows

Of a specific iodine?

 

[Beef farmer]

20ml iodine along their back to bring levels up but only lasts a week then aquadine tablets go in water trough one tablet per cow per week.not that handy if moving fields or paddocks regularly

Moving paddocks 2x day. But might work for dry cows. Vets says last month of gestation and 1st 3 months of lactation

 

[boumaticboy]

I was using cosIcure and switched to Agrimin as they had higher iodine levels

 

[Beef farmer]

I was using cosIcure and switched to Agrimin as they had higher iodine levels

Is that a bolus?

 

[boumaticboy]

Is that a bolus?

Yes

 

[Beef farmer]

I've got all this years bolus here just as a standard mineral bolus to administer after calving. Sub 3 weeks to psc so don't want to yoke em all

 

[Rossymons]

Big deficiency or small one?

 

[Beef farmer]

Normal is 80-150
Were 49
To me thats low but apparently not alarmingly low

 

[Ffermer Bach]

in the winter I use trace element services cattle mineral sprayed on the silage face twice a week (copper 12 mg, zinc 14mg, cobalt 1 mg, selenium 1.2mg and iodine 2mg all per 1 ml, and 8 to 10 ml per animal per day). Also put trace elements on the pastures (7 years ago), but no iodine in it, cobalt 3.9%, copper 13.8%, selenium 0.3%, boron 0.8% at 2kg per acre.

 

[boumaticboy]

I've got all this years bolus here just as a standard mineral bolus to administer after calving. Sub 3 weeks to psc so don't want to yoke em all

I do them at dry off with hi iodine one

 

[Homesy]

10ml 10% iodine on their back/flank weekly. If you think it is burning them dilute with water 50:50. Lots of people do it around here. Had a mineral consultant out over my high copper levels. He said the iodine component of the bolus does not last long enough so keep putting it on their backs. Cheap and easy.

 

[Rossymons]

I wouldn't say spraying iodine on 2 herds of cows every week is easy.

I haven't had any experience with iodine but it must be possible to get in cake, surely?

That would be the easiest way especially with tsunami of freshly calved cows coming up soon.

 

[Beef farmer]

10ml 10% iodine on their back/flank weekly. If you think it is burning them dilute with water 50:50. Lots of people do it around here. Had a mineral consultant out over my high copper levels. He said the iodine component of the bolus does not last long enough so keep putting it on their backs. Cheap and easy.

What sort of iodine? Just normal or a special?