Horslyx Smallholder Block for Ruminants
Smallholder Block from Horslyx is tailored for diverse smallholder environments, catering to mixed species grazing habits.
Designed for free access, ruminants such as cattle sheep & goats can help themselves to this nutritional supplement, aligning with their natural "little and often" grazing behavior. This approach ensures a balanced and consistent intake of essential nutrients throughout the day.
This weather proof lick accommodates the varied needs of different ruminant species, making it a valuable addition to smallholder environments.
Can be offered all year round providing essential vitamins, minerals and trace elements to all classes of grazing livestock along with additional energy and protein.
Key Benefits
-
Supports Overall Health: Provides essential vitamins, minerals, and trace elements, promoting health and vitality in ruminant stock.
-
Cost-Effective Solution: Lasts long due to its concentrated nature, providing great value for money. It's licked, ensuring it's consumed over time, making it cost-effective.
-
Boosts Rumen Efficiency: Enhances the efficacy of rumen bugs, allowing better utilization of fibrous forages, improving digestibility and nutrient absorption.
-
Fits Natural Grazing Habits: Mimics the natural grazing habits of ruminants, allowing continuous trickle feeding over a 24-hour period, ensuring a balanced diet.
-
Corrects Nutrient Deficiencies: Addresses nutrient deficiencies in forage, ensuring a balanced diet for various ruminant stock, from goats to cows.
-
Improves Forage Utilization: Stimulates forage intake and improves digestibility, allowing greater reliance on homegrown forages and reducing overall feeding costs.
-
Supports Immune System: Contains powerful antioxidants like Zinc, Selenium, and Vitamin E, supporting a healthy immune system in ruminants.
-
Enhances Animal Health: Improves animal health and performance by addressing nutrient deficiencies, making it the top choice for supplementation in smallholder environments.
- Corrects Nutrient Deficiencies: Smallholder Block ensures a balanced diet for ruminant stock by correcting deficiencies in minerals, vitamins, and trace elements found in forage.
- Cobalt for Vitamin B12 Production: Unlike equine supplements, it contains added cobalt, essential for Vitamin B12 production within the rumen, crucial for ruminant health and performance.
- Stimulates Forage Intake: It stimulates forage intake and enhances digestibility, encouraging reliance on homegrown forages, reducing overall feeding costs.
- Suitable for All Ruminants: It does not contain added copper, making it suitable for all ruminant species, from pygmy goats to cows and even pigs.
- Optimized Consumption: Offered in multiple units, it reduces competition among animals, ensuring optimal consumption and nutrient intake.
- Enhanced Forage Utilization: Its unique production process enhances forage utilization within the rumen, making it an excellent choice for smallholders.
Smallholder Block is not designed for equine consumption.
Sizes
5kg
15kg
Shipping charges mainland GB zone1
| Value | Weight | Delivery Charge |
| Over £49.00 | Any Weight | FREE |
| Under £49.00 | No weight limit | £4.50 |
| Under £49.00 | Under 250 grams | £3.49 |
Most orders are despatched the same day and standard delivery is 3 to 5 working days from despatch. FAST Expedited options are available at extra cost - these usually arrive in 24-48hrs from dispatch but delays are possible during busy periods.
Postcodes outside of Zone 1 (including some areas within mainland UK) may incur extra carriage charges due to surcharges imposed by the couriers. These will be calculated on the website at the checkout.
NB: Orders placed with faster delivery must be placed before 13:00 to ensure same day dispatch (excluding weekends and bank holidays). Please also check on the product page that the items ordered show 'In Stock' otherwise your order will be delayed until the stock becomes available, which in most cases will only be 24hrs.
Estimated "Usually shipped in" information is shown against most products
Overseas orders
We no longer send goods outside of the UK.
Prescription Items
Prescription items will be sent on receipt of a legally valid signed and dated prescription.
Pick up
We offer a pickup service for orders placed over the phone.
Please ring us on 01833 641112 for more information.
Refrigerated Items
- Refrigerated lines Packaging Cost: Despatched with Woolcool Refrigerated Packaging for £7.50.
- Receipt Required: Someone must be available to receive the delivery. Woolcool packaging is designed for temperature-controlled goods, so parcels cannot be left unattended.
- Immediate Refrigeration: Upon receipt, refrigerate the contents immediately to ensure your food or medicine remains at the correct temperature.
- Failed Delivery Attempts: We are not responsible for the cost of replacements if a delivery attempt fails due to the absence of someone to receive it.
We want you to be completely satisfied with any purchase. If not any item* can be returned to us within 14 days of receipt for exchange or refund Please give us a ring for a returns number on 01833 641112 or alternatively email sales@hyperdrug.co.uk to obtain a returns number.
*Due to legal requirements medicines may not be returned except to correct an error in despatch or in response to an "official recall". If an item is believed to be faulty it should be returned for inspection and it may be necessary to forward it to the manufacturers for testing before replacements or refunds can be authorised. This does not infringe legal rights. Please contact our customer services for a "Returns Number" which must appear on the outside of the package or it will not be accepted. We advise customers to use an insured method of shipping and to retain proof of despatch. We may refuse returns on products specially obtained or manufactured to order. Items must be returned unsoiled and unused and sent adequately packed and carriage paid.
