[Rhiannon]

Hi all!
What mineral block do you recommend?
Many thanks
Rhiannon

[mojocafa]

Yellow rockie

[devonlad]

eurobloc calsea zinc etc

[Rhiannon]

Many thanks

[plumseverywhere]

We use red rockie as it has the copper goats need. Our sheep cannot gain access to it an they have the yellow version 

[sokel]

Red Rockies here aswell 

[jinglejoys]

Both

[Anke]

Yellow Rockie for GG's and red ones for BT's. Just changing over for the BT's.

[Lesley Silvester]

I'm using yellow because I didn't know which was best but I also give Caprivite, garlic and seaweed.

[Carl f k]

Red rocky but both goats have never touched it

[Dogwalker]

Yellow Rockie for GG's and red ones for BT's. Just changing over for the BT's.

Why yellow for the GG's?

[Anke]

Because they never touch theirs really (theirs have been in the shed for the last 4 years and only have rounded edges), and as they are milking fine I felt that I do not want to overdose on Copper for them. The BT's go through at least a lick per year roughly, and as they are milking twice the amount of the GG's I felt that more Copper wouldn't be amiss....
 
All of my adults (milkers and goatlings) also get a 6-weekly mineral/multi-vit drench with added Copper, GG's and goatlings get half the dose of the large BT's. I have some really fussy eaters this year (same goats as last year, just getting fussy), so have stopped givin Caprivite, as they were refusing to eat their food once Caprivite was in it... (same bucket as before kidding, so no idea what's going on).

[Dogwalker]

My GG haven't used their blocks as much this year as last but the angoras go through them really quickly. 
Are there big differences between breeds of sheep or other animals or is it just goats. 

[sokel]

None of our 100% Boers touch the licks where as the dairy and the 75% Boer all go through them fast

[Anke]

My GG haven't used their blocks as much this year as last but the angoras go through them really quickly. 
Are there big differences between breeds of sheep or other animals or is it just goats.

I don't think anyone has been able to do some analysis on this one, not economically important I guess. But it is probably that due to different local circumstances (mineral contents of grass/hay/feed etc etc) it is individuals that need different amounts, probably within a breed and also between different breeds...
 
The GG's not using them is just my personal observations on my holding, I have heard from others that their girls are using them more...