摘要 |
A tablet suitable for adding to animals' drinking water contains one or more vitamins and one or more trace elements and a water-soluble substrate, preferably an effervescent substrate containing an edible carboxylic acid and an alkali metal bicarbonate. Other components of the tablet may be a flavouring, an anti-oxidant, an anti-biotic, a growth promoter and an anti-algal and/or anti-fungal agent. The tablets may be prepared by forming separate granules containing respectively, vitamins, trace elements and bicarbonate, with the edible acid being in the trace element granules. The invention includes a method of feeding animals by adding the tablets to animals' drinking water or aqueous feed. |