A mineral lick (also known as a salt lick) is a place where animals can go to lick essential mineral nutrients from a deposit of salts and other minerals. Mineral licks can be naturally occurring or artificial (such as blocks of salt that farmers place in pastures for livestock to lick).

How do you make a cow lick block?

Start with 2% blocks at first, then introduce 5% and eventually 10% urea mix blocks after several weeks. Carefully weigh all ingredients, mix them thoroughly with a cement mixer and pour into moulds. Molasses is used to dissolve urea and salt and to encourage stock to eat the block.

What is in a cattle lick tub?

Most lick tubs are made up of 200-250 pounds of hard-cooked molasses; it’s not likely that they are going to blow away in the wind. Even if the wind did happen to blow one over, or an animal knocked one over, tubs are easy to tip back up.