Pelletless pellet??
Sef - that is very interesting. Can you show me the link?
slavetofuzzy - I have contacted Oxbow about this before, but they didn't bother to answer. But I guess if they got many letters they would perhaps listen?
kleenmama - I am very glad you don't put more than a tiny amount of salt in your pellets! I whish there was a way to get them to Europe...
slavetofuzzy - I have contacted Oxbow about this before, but they didn't bother to answer. But I guess if they got many letters they would perhaps listen?
kleenmama - I am very glad you don't put more than a tiny amount of salt in your pellets! I whish there was a way to get them to Europe...
I would absolutely love this!! My boys are so picky that they actually dig all of the pellets out of their food! So I end up wasting a good bit of the bag. I'm sure no matter how expensive it would be, I'd save money in the long run. :-)
- Sef
- I dissent.
This is just one typical example, from a men's health website citing possible causes of calcium-based stones (emphasis mine):
Excessive sodium. Calcium absorption in the kidney tubules follows the absorption of sodium and water. High urinary levels of sodium then results in increased levels of calcium. Defects in the kidney tubules transport system can cause imbalances in sodium and phosphate that result in elevated calcium in the urine. A high salt diet can also produce this effect.
Thank you for that link, Sef. I also did a search on sodium AND bladder stone, and found a lot of links. It seems that it sometimes is possible to dissolve stones in dogs with diet and antibiotics http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articl ... tid=545988, but I have no idea if this could be used in pigs. And if so, what diet would be appropriate?
I must admit, though, that I find this field very complicated, and my head is near to spin when I try to get the essence out of all these articles. Some of them even seem to partly contradict each other! Time to get to bed soon, I guess, but I will read more tomorrow.
I must admit, though, that I find this field very complicated, and my head is near to spin when I try to get the essence out of all these articles. Some of them even seem to partly contradict each other! Time to get to bed soon, I guess, but I will read more tomorrow.
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- 4 the Good of all Pigs
Ozzy's stone got bigger during our Actigall trial. Maybe if you catch the stones early and small it may work.