Sodium nutrition in livestock and poultry

Larry L. Berger, Ph.D.

Salt Institute

Salt and Trace Minerals newsletter

Summer 1995 (Vol. 27, No. 1)

All animals, including humans, require sodium. Livestock and poultry producers would be wrong to economize by short-changing salt supplementation since sodium deficiency saps performance, retards growth, invites heat stress and undermines animals’ immune systems.