Selenium problems are sneaky because both deficiency and toxicity produce vague, overlapping, “not quite right” symptoms. Selenium has very small margins between too much and not enough - which is why it's a 'Goldilocks mineral'. That means owners - and sometimes even professionals - often chase the wrong diagnosis while the real culprit is a mineral imbalance hiding in plain sight

If you were using an online feed balancing calculator based only on hard feed and ignoring pasture, that would be like trying to balance your human diet by focusing super hard on the biscuit you had at morning tea, and ignoring everything else you ate in that day. If we don’t know what’s in the largest part of the diet, we can’t perfectly balance minerals on paper. So instead of chasing perfect numbers, here at Sound Advice we teach owners something far more practical.

At Sound Advice, we are frequently asked by clients which pelleted feed we recommend. That's like a parent asking whether we would...