When choosing pet food, people often think about how the selected feed composition can bring their pets. It is necessary to pay attention not only to the components, but also to the content of certain vitamins and microelements, mineral salts. Of course, pets, like ourselves, need full, balanced nutrition. It is important to know how important mineral salts are in animal feed.
Mineral substances play a very important role, performing a variety of metabolic and physiological functions, both in the human body and in the body of animals. As for pets, they themselves cannot properly organize their diet, which means that the owners must take care of this. Animals receive mineral salts with feed, and also partly with water. If there are not enough minerals in the feed or, on the contrary, their excess is observed, the animal may get sick.
Most (about 75% of the total) mineral substances in the body of animals are calcium and phosphorus. If an animal suffers from rickets, if chicken eggs have a very soft shell, then there is an obvious lack of calcium in the diet. From livestock, especially cows and goats need calcium, because with milk, a fairly large amount of minerals is released from their body.
When composing a “menu” for livestock and for your pets (cats or dogs, rabbits or chinchillas, ferrets or guinea pigs), keep in mind that the full functioning of all body systems is possible only if you find the right diet. It is very important that the body has a balance, a balance of the content of alkalis and acids. If the harmony is disturbed, changes in the skeleton will inevitably begin: the bones will become porous and weak.
Do not forget that mineral salts are the basis for controlling the balance of the body's water regime. The role of salts in the metabolic process is no less important. So, for example, phosphoric acid is especially important for the metabolism of carbohydrates. But the exchange of nitrogenous substances depends on the ratio of minerals to the body.
Do you want your animals to be healthy, bring good offspring and weight gain, and simply - to please you every day? Take care of their proper nutrition, because this is the main secret of good health.
