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Llamas will lick holes in them. Make sure that mineral block does not have selenium in it if you are giving it to Llamas. Huh? Se is a required nutrient for all animals, including llamas. It's deficient in the soil here so it's needed in a mineral supplement. We have a lot of white muscle problems here in farm animals. While I haven't heard of it in llamas or alpacas yet, they are prone to it. Many breeders use Bo-Se on pregnant females and newborn crias to prevent it.
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When I was little, some of my favorite things were salt licks, dry dog food, and drinking from the horses water tank.
These kids drinking chlorinated water, soy milk, and getting wiped down with disinfectant every second (before corona') have to have a compromised immune system. My friend used to drink from our bird bath.
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The mineral block challenge?
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When I was little, some of my favorite things were salt licks, dry dog food, and drinking from the horses water tank.
These kids drinking chlorinated water, soy milk, and getting wiped down with disinfectant every second (before corona') have to have a compromised immune system. My friend used to drink from our bird bath. He was getting all his vitamins and trace minerals....grin
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That is what you put 50 yards from the deer stand.
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That is what you put 50 yards from the deer stand. In Idaho, hunting a salt lick is considered baiting and is illegal.
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I licked a few of those as a kid back in the 1950s. NOT ME! Now the 1940s? Yep!
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Never licked one but the kids did.
We used the sulfur/salt blocks along with the red mineral block.
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That is what you put 50 yards from the deer stand. In Idaho, hunting a salt lick is considered baiting and is illegal. I was joking.Not legal here either but you do see them.
Ideas are far more powerful than guns, We dont let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas. "Joseph Stalin"
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Used to knock chips off and carry them with us for a kick on demand.
Put out a block under a big spruce, protected from rain, in one of my hunting areas, for moose some years ago. 4 years later, it was still there. Stupid moose.....
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I learned an important lesson in electrical conductivity one day. Standing there barefoot holding on to an electric fence(weak 12V unit) when a 'friend' poured some water on my foot. The grounding amplified the jolts to at least 100,000 volts. I'm told that I screamed like a little girl.
I've tasted many a salt block but only tried the molasses bucket once.
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city kids would have ground up a chunk and snorted it.
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An older friend talked a lot of about the "Dirty Thirties" .He said they had livestock salt on the kitchen table, cheaper. That would have been rock salt. LOL. Our "small prepping type stash" contains a couple of bags of granular stock salt. 5 bucks per 50 pounds... pretty cheap... and it own't kill us and will preserve any meat if we get in a bind.
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Used to knock chips off and carry them with us for a kick on demand.
Put out a block under a big spruce, protected from rain, in one of my hunting areas, for moose some years ago. 4 years later, it was still there. Stupid moose..... LOL!
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One of my cherished memories is helping milk the Jersey herd at my grandparents place (in New Jersey!) when Uncle Ted showed me milking technique: "Two for the bucket, one for the cat - and one for me." Every day, after they'd hauled the milk to town, there'd be a gallon jug of that day's creamy goodness on the kitchen table.
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When my then 6 y/o son and I were deer hunting in the Rubies we came up onto a small flat on the hillside we were sneaking over, and I heard him laughing. He was standing in a bunch of mostly licked-away salt blocks. I asked what was so funny, and he told me we were in Salt Lick City.
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When I was 12 my dad hooked me up w/ a job on a sheep farm Near Swink, Co. I learned early on when you were given a salt block and told to carry it out to the spike in a pen w/ 200 sheep you might get trampled. To this day I enjoy eating lamb. those phuggers nearly trampled me and ate the buttons off my shirt.
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We throw them in the river and catch mullet off of them, bait deer with them and supplement the cows with them. I can't recall licking them but I wouldn't doubt it.
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