Box of 4pcs x 3kg
3kg blocks wrapped in plastic film in box of 4pcs x 3kg
Box of 4pcs x 5kg
5kg blocks wrapped in plastic film in box of 4pcs x 5kg
10kg block
Individually shrink wrapped 10kg block with handling strap.
SELENIUM PLUS is a highly bioavailable mineral lick enriched with organic Selenium, Zinc Chelate, and Cobalt, designed to support optimal health, productivity, and reproductive performance in ruminants.
The inclusion of organic Selenium and Zinc Chelate ensures superior absorption, helping to prevent muscular dystrophy and pododermatitis, while promoting healthy hoof development. These trace minerals also play a key role in immune system function, enhancing the animal’s resistance to diseases such as mastitis.
SELENIUM PLUS additionally improves the texture of wool and skin, and supports the synthesis of Vitamin B₁₂ in the rumen, contributing to efficient feed metabolism. By strengthening the reproductive system it helps increase fertility and overall herd performance, making it an essential supplement for growing, pregnant, or high-producing animals.
Analytical Ingredients / %
Sodium (Na): 38%
Calcium (Ca): 2%
Minerals mg / Kg
Zinc (Zn) (Oxide) (3b603) 5.000 mg: 50%
Zinc (Zn) (Chelate of protein hydrolysates) (3b612) 100 mg: 10%
Iron (Fe) (Sulphate monohydrate (II)) (3b103) 1.500 mg: 8%
Selenium (Se) (Coated granulated sodium selenite) (3b802) 30 mg: 7%
Organic Selenium (Se) (Selenomethionine) (3b8.12) 10 mg: 6%
Cobalt (Co) (Coated granulated cobalt (II) carbonate) (3b304) 25 mg: 5%
Vitamins IU / Kg
Vitamin E (All-rac-alpha-tocopherylacetate) (3a700) 1.000 mg: 5%
Sodium Chloride, Calcium Carbonate, Molasses (Sugar beet)
Selenium and zinc are essential trace elements that play critical roles in metabolic, immune, and reproductive functions in ruminants. Deficiencies in these minerals can lead to serious disorders such as muscular dystrophy, poor hoof health, reduced fertility, and compromised immunity, which can negatively impact both animal health and farm productivity.
Composition and Bioavailability
SELENIUM PLUS is enriched with organic Selenium, Zinc Chelate, and Cobalt, forms that are highly bioavailable and efficiently absorbed in the digestive tract. This ensures that ruminants receive adequate levels of these critical micronutrients, even under conditions where feed quality or soil mineral content may be insufficient.
Health and Metabolic Benefits
Selenium functions as a cofactor for glutathione peroxidase, an enzyme that protects cells against oxidative stress, maintaining muscle integrity and reducing the risk of white muscle disease (muscular dystrophy). Selenium also supports liver function and aids in metabolic regulation during late pregnancy and lactation, periods of high oxidative and metabolic demand.
Zinc is essential for keratin synthesis, enzyme activation, and immune competence. It promotes healthy hoof growth, skin integrity, and wool quality, while contributing to the proper function of over 300 enzymatic systems involved in growth, reproduction, and immune defense.
Cobalt is vital for the ruminal synthesis of Vitamin B₁₂, which is necessary for efficient carbohydrate and protein metabolism. This improves feed conversion efficiency and supports overall energy balance, particularly in growing, lactating, or stressed animals.
Practical Applications
SELENIUM PLUS is ideally administered as a licking block, allowing animals to self-regulate intake and ensuring consistent daily consumption of essential trace elements. It is suitable for all classes of livestock, including young, pregnant, lactating, or high-producing animals, and is especially beneficial in regions where soils and forage are low in Selenium and Zinc.
Reproductive and Performance Benefits
By supporting muscle function, immune competence, and vitamin synthesis, SELENIUM PLUS contributes to higher fertility rates, healthier offspring, and improved milk production. It also enhances disease resistance, particularly against metabolic and infectious challenges such as mastitis, reducing losses and improving overall herd performance.
Conclusion
SELENIUM PLUS represents a scientifically formulated solution for trace mineral supplementation in ruminants. Its organic Selenium and Zinc Chelate content, combined with Cobalt, ensures optimal absorption and bioavailability, supporting muscle health, hoof integrity, immune function, and reproductive efficiency. Regular use of SELENIUM PLUS helps maintain productive, healthy, and resilient livestock, making it an essential component of modern, science-based feeding programs.
Calcium
Calcium is the main component of bones and teeth. It has chief metabolic functions in the animal bodies and is also essential for muscle activity, skeleton, blood clotting, nerve transmission and dynamics of enzyme function. Calcium metabolism at calving is one of the most important animal health factors influencing the production, reproduction and feed conversion efficiency as it plays a major role in the absorption of nutrients (modification of the cell permeability).
Cobalt
Iron
Iron is essential for a wide variety of the metabolic processes of living organisms, due to its chemical transitional property. Iron is present in the different forms of heme and the iron-sulfur (Fe-S) cluster binding protein, which plays an important role in various enzymatic reactions such as aerobic respiration, TCA-cycle function and DNA synthesis as well as oxygen transport and storage. It is a substantial component of red blood cells participating to the blood’s structure and improves the functioning of organs and tissues.
Zinc
Zinc is an essential nutrient for animals, functioning in enzyme systems and being involved in protein synthesis, carbohydrate metabolism, and many other biochemical reactions. Severe zinc deficiency causes numerous pathological changes, including skin parakeratosis, reduced or cessation of growth, general debility, lethargy, and increased susceptibility to infection.
Sodium
Selenium
Selenium is a component of glutathione peroxidase, an enzyme for the removal of lipid peroxides. Selenium is very important in fertility and helps muscular development. Se is also a component of two other selenoproteins. The midpiece of sperm requires selenoprotein. Microbes in the rumen replace S with Se in their S-containing amino acid synthesis. They are absorbed in the duodenum as amino acids. White muscle disease and exudative diathesis are two Se deficiency symptoms, which can be treated with both vitamin E and Se. Deficient animals also show liver necrosis. Selenium prevents oxidative damage to tissues by offering an antioxidant action and protects against cell damage.
Vitamin E
Vitamin E has been shown to be essential for integrity and optimum function of reproductive, muscular, circulatory, nervous, and immune systems. One of the most important functions is its role as an intercellular and intracellular antioxidant. Vitamin E is part of the body’s intracellular defense against the adverse effects of reactive oxygen and free radicals that initiate oxidation of unsaturated phospholipids and critical sulfhydryl groups.