Premium Loose Lick North Island

Agvance’s Premium Loose Lick North Island is a cost-effective free choice stock lick to provide a balanced mineral supplement over the winter months so you’re ready to crack on come transition.

Scientifically-proven benefits:

  • Excellent palatability
  • Cost-effective and easy to feed
  • Metabolic disease prevention
  • Blood and liver mineral level maintenance
  • Enhances body condition
  • Aids in energy utilisation
  • Aids the cow’s metabolism
 

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Agvance’s Premium Loose Lick North Island is designed for lactating and dry cows, young stock, and beef cattle. It contains effective mineral levels that aid in metabolism, prevention of metabolic disease, energy utilisation, body condition and the maintenance of blood and liver mineral levels.

Loose licks are a very cost-efficient way of offering a general mineral blend to animals fed on pasture or forage crops. They are an easy and simple option for providing a macro mineral and trace element supplement to the herd.

What’s in the Premium Loose Lick North Island mineral blend?

  • Salt – to balance mineral levels in crops and pasture aiding in metabolism and the prevention of metabolic disease.
  • Effective Magnesium – high-quality Australian magnesium oxide used in maintaining blood magnesium levels and helping to prevent metabolic disease.
  • Copper Glycinate Chelate – a high-quality chelate providing a high-quality organic copper supplement. This helps to build/maintain copper levels in the liver and blood and supports the health of the animal.
  • Zinc – maintains/boosts the immunity of the animal through times of stress (wet/cold conditions and late stages of pregnancy).
  • Iodine – in highly available EDDI form, helps to maintain iodine levels while on goitrogenic crops. Aids metabolism is important in preparing the cow for the calving period.
  • Selenium – supports the maintenance of blood selenium levels going into the calving period.
  • Chromium – aids energy metabolism by helping a cow efficiently use the energy she is eating to increase her body condition.
 

Check out ruminant nutritionist Shaun Balemi and Farm4Life’s Tangaroa Walker talk Loose Licks:

With Agvance’s Premium Loose Lick North Island, you don’t need to worry about your cows over winter. This is an excellent way to get a good balance of minerals into your cows efficiently and cost-effectively, building up their reserves over winter so they can crack on come transition.

Get in touch today for specific advice or to order:

Call 0800 BALANCE, contact your local Agvance consultant directly or login to your Agvance account.

What the research shows

  • High dietary potassium can reduce magnesium absorption in cattle, which helps explain why magnesium shortfalls can show up on pasture-based diets unless intake is well covered. (DOI: 10.4141/cjas94-071
  • In a controlled NZ study, oral copper supplementation increased liver copper stores, and liver copper response differed between supplementation forms. (DOI: 10.1080/00480169.2010.67515
  • In NZ dairy cows, iodine supplementation increased iodine concentrations in milk, showing dietary iodine can shift iodine status outputs in practical systems. (DOI: 10.1080/00480169.2005.36462)
Limits

These studies relate to mineral supplementation and mineral status outcomes. They do not test this specific Agvance loose lick, or free-choice intake consistency.

Study details and links

What was tested

Research on (1) the effect of dietary potassium level on magnesium absorption and excretion, (2) oral copper supplementation forms and their effect on liver copper stores, and (3) iodine supplementation in dairy cows and resulting iodine concentrations in milk. 

Magnesium apparent absorption and excretion, liver copper (via liver sampling/biopsy) and blood copper, plus milk iodine concentrations (and milk production outcomes in the iodine trial).

  • Effect of level of dietary potassium on the absorption and excretion of calcium and magnesium in lactating dairy cows, Canadian Journal of Animal Science: DOI 10.4141/cjas94-071
    Publisher PDF: https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.4141/cjas94-071 
  • Accumulation and depletion of liver copper stores in dairy cows challenged with a Cu-deficient diet and oral and injectable forms of Cu supplementation, New Zealand Veterinary Journal: DOI 10.1080/00480169.2010.67515
    PubMed record: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20514087/ 
  • Impact of iodine supplementation of dairy cows on milk production and iodine concentrations in milk, New Zealand Veterinary Journal: DOI 10.1080/00480169.2005.36462
    PubMed record: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15731828/ 
  • Evidence supports the mineral principles (magnesium antagonism from high potassium, copper storage response to supplementation, iodine supplementation effects on milk iodine), not this branded product on its own.
  • Intake consistency matters. With free-choice loose licks, individual cow intake can vary, so outcomes depend on placement, access, and herd behaviour.
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