Copper (Copasure) to break and top food or not to???

Melisa Hubbs

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I read a few spots where people tried topping the grain with the cooper supplement as apposed to using the bolus tool....then I read the label and it says not to. Is it ok to let them eat the grain with the cooper if they will? It just seems less stressful if they will eat it.

Thanks for any advice, it is really appreciated!
 

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I have always used the tool but only because mine would never eat anything that I put the copper on. I tried grain, marshmallows, PB, BOSS, minerals, and cookies. They wouldn't touch any of it. I have seen articles that say that the copper needs to get to a certain stomach and that eating and crushing it won't work. I have also seen one where they put it in a marshmallow and did x-rays and was right where it needed to be. So your guess is as good as mine.

I have given up on bolusing 40+ goats and now do an injectable...Multi Min 90
 

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I gave up on the actual bolus gun. I open mine and give it by grm/per lbs... on an empty stomach. I generally mix mine in with the mineral and feed. I feed my mineral by hand so no biggy for me.
 

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Thanks so much yall!! I was so afraid that it may hurt them, now I am relieved. I am probably going to switch to the injectable. One might think I like giving shots to my goats, seems I have to do that often, but it is the only way to make sure they get the exact dosage.

Any advice on the best injectable that has the copper they need?
 

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Most of my goats LOVE pumpkin. I mix it in pumpkin and they will lick it right up. For the ones that don't I put the pumpkin/copper mixture in a syringe (a big syringe with the end cut off) and give it to them that way.
 

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I have always used the tool but only because mine would never eat anything that I put the copper on. I tried grain, marshmallows, PB, BOSS, minerals, and cookies. They wouldn't touch any of it. I have seen articles that say that the copper needs to get to a certain stomach and that eating and crushing it won't work. I have also seen one where they put it in a marshmallow and did x-rays and was right where it needed to be. So your guess is as good as mine.

I have given up on bolusing 40+ goats and now do an injectable...Multi Min 90

do you still provide lose minerals too? How many times/year do you give Multi Min 90?
 

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I do provide a loose mineral. I give the Multi Min 2x a year but could possibly go 3. I wish that there was a reliable test for copper other than liver biopsy. Blood work tells a little, but doesn't tell you what is stored and it can literally change between morning and night. A herd wide sampling would help I'm sure.
 

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