May
05
Salt can stimulate saliva secretion of other digestive enzymes to promote digestion and to improve feed flavor, enhancing the role of animal appetite. The lack of sodium and chlorine and excess can affect dairy and beef cattle production performance and body healthy, long-term lack of adult cattle salt diet can lead to loss of appetite, listlessness, malnutrition, coarse hair, milk production and productivity levels ; calf diet long enough salt, showed growth retardation, and decreased feed efficiency. However, when too much salt can cause a serious increase in water intake, diarrhea, poisoning. General salt content of total concentrate fed 0.5% to 1% is appropriate; cows to increase milk yield, increased salt may be appropriate.