Mineral Brick

A trace-mineral brick gives your livestock both the salt they crave and the trace minerals that Florida pasture and grass hay often run short on. Each brick weighs roughly four pounds and is built to stand up to weather, so you can set it out free-choice and let your animals lick as they need it. For horses, cattle, goats, and other stock, free-choice access to salt and minerals is one of the lowest-effort ways to fill the small but important gaps a forage-only diet tends to leave behind.

North Central Florida forage is commonly thin on copper, zinc, and selenium, which is why a properly matched mineral source is such a common gap-filler for animals in the Williston, Ocala, and wider Marion and Levy County area. A trace-mineral brick is a convenient way to offer those minerals alongside salt in a single block. How much your animals truly need depends on what else they eat: a grass-hay-only diet usually benefits more than one that already includes alfalfa, a premium fortified feed, or a ration balancer that carries its own mineral package.

Set the brick in a holder or under cover so rain does not melt it down prematurely, and check it every few weeks to see how fast your herd is going through it. If you are feeding a metabolic or hard-keeping horse, or you are not sure whether a brick, a loose mineral, or a full ration balancer is the better fit, give us a call. At our Williston store we try to stock one or two well-matched options per diet type rather than one of every brand on the shelf, so it is easy to walk out with the right product. Call (352) 528-1255 with the hay you feed and your animals work level, and our family-owned, fifth-generation team will point you to the closest match.