Youngevity’s Bloomin Minerals
Now for horses!
And dogs, cats, chickens, pigs, goats, sheep, cows, donkeys, llamas, tigers, even elephants.
And crops, small gardens, pastures and hay fields.
Tested on Humans!
This is terrific news indeed! Youngevity’s 70+ essential plant-derived colloidal minerals are now available for horses! And every other animal. The very same essential plant-derived minerals that our own bodies need in order to function as they are genetically designed to function. Two-time Nobel Prize winning scientist Linus Pauling said “Every sickness, every ailment, every disease can be traced to a mineral deficiency.” In other words when I give my body and my horse’s body and my dog’s body what they genetically need – but are no longer getting – those bodies can do amazing things. They can heal themselves. Read more
I gave this a try with my horses. The “raw” minerals smell like dirt and are “gritty”, like sand. At first most wouldn’t touch it, so I had to back off to a teaspoon each day until they weren’t sorting it out of their feed. I have 15 horses, so going thru a huge ritual each day is too time consuming for me. (I feed rolled oats only.) I thought about sprinkling or spraying water on the grain for the minerals to stick to, or a little spritzing of oil, but then the horses were suspicious of all this tampering with their grain. Some started eating it, but leaving the bigger grits. So I bought a cheap coffee grinder and ground it to more of a powder. That seemed more acceptable to them. Finally, because of impatience on my part, I just dumped a whole cup in each feed trough. I wouldn’t add any more until they ate that with their grain. Took a couple weeks until most ate a whole cup once a day. I have a couple old horses in their 30’s that absolutely refused the minerals. No way, no how. Didn’t matter how I would disguise them, they were very suspicious and would not touch it. So overall, depends on the horses. A greedy horse will eat them right up, might take a day or two for them to accept a new “substance” and “smell”, but they’ll eat it no problems. Other horses took a week or two. Old fussy horses wouldn’t go for it at all. By the end of my experiment, I had run out of minerals and patience. I think maybe the company might want to explore adding something to the minerals to make it more horse friendly. Or a mineral lick block. I know how important minerals are, but my horses just weren’t really excited about them in this form. However, if I could just get our local hay man to spread the minerals on his fields, this would be the ultimate way to get the minerals into the horses!
Thanks for the tips. I’ve had similar issues with some of the horses. The dogs gobble them down, but the horses, especially the mustangs, want no part of them. I’m currently experimenting with one or two at a time while also free-feeding. The free-feeding bucket is going down, but slowly. I’ve had a 29-year-old-eating them when mixed with a cold-processed soy oil and then stirred into his Triple Crown Safe Starch (forage in a bag). Slowly I withdrew the oil until he was getting them dry, and eating them all. My hope is that once their system gets used to having them it’ll take charge and say “Eat!!” Doing the same with the second horse now but haven’t started reducing the oil yet. I like your powder idea. Might try that. The problem with the company starting down the road to make them palatable is that they then start to get expensive. It involves cleansing to rid the dirt taste, changing their form, adding flavoring, all while staying organic and pure. I wonder if your powder form mixed with a bit of stevia would help. Some big farmers use the Liquid version injected to their water systems. I wonder if spraying the base feed (Safe Starch for us) with the Liquid Bloomin Minerals would work. I’ve asked upline what the equivilent dosage would be. Our hay grower has promised to test them this spring. That, as you said, would be the ultimate solution. And using the liquid EFM version it costs less than $5.00/acre to add the minerals to their current system and makes a huge difference. Here’s a video worth watching. Farm animals, not horses, but it translates:
Minerals and Animals
http://1drv.ms/1LilUUJ
I’ll let you know if anything new works. Please do the same.
Joe
Joe, this product sounds incredible; almost too good to be true. My horses have been on The Natural Vet’s “Feed for Success” plan for seven years, ever since I saw his banner on The Soul of a Horse website, and they’ve never been healthier. The cornerstone of the plan is RedCal loose minerals.
Can you tell me the difference between RedCal and Bloomin’ Minerals? I hold you in the highest regard, and have the utmost respect for your wisdom. But I can’t afford to switch to a more expensive product on a whim, nor do I want to jeopardize my horses’ health because a new and improved product came on the market. Nobel prizes aside, what makes Bloomin’ Minerals so much better? Please be frank; I need to know, and I’m sure others need to know, as well.
Red Cal is basically unprocessed sea salt with a few trace minerals. Not many. Bloomin Minerals (we need a better acronym for this :) is 71 minerals and trace minerals. The complete compliment of what the earth could be providing were it not for man’s intervention. This is what Doc found in his research for zoos and wild animal parks (which is all in his book The Diseases of Exotic Animals; which is in the Smithsonian and used by Zoos, Animal Parks and Vet Schools today). When wild animals come in from the wilderness untouched by man they were healthy and robust. And their blood samples had all of these minerals. Soon, eating domestically grown plants or animals, they would become listless, sickly, and even die… and the minerals were gone from their blood samples. By putting the minerals back through supplementation in their feed Doc and his associates removed over 900 diseases from the exotic animal world.