A big hard block in the feed store?

[Chicabee19]

When I was in the feed store the other day I saw a big hard, solid square block of orangey-colored stuff.

Is this chicken food?

 

[MissPrissy]

It depends. Was it suet?

Or was it a giant mineral block for cattle?

How big was it?

 

[Chicabee19]

I don't think it was suet - I've seen that before.

It was sitting next to a block just like it that said 'wild bird feed'. I could see all kinds of seeds in the wild feed block.

This stuff was really orangish, uniform - no obvious 'seeds' showing, and the color was a lot like pictures of 'crumbles' that I've seen. I didn't see a tag - it was just wrapped in plastic around the edges -- the sides were open.

 

[d.k]

* Doesn't sound like any chicken food I've every seen. I would have just asked somebody that worked there.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Sounds like a mineral or salt block. Usually the deer or wildlife blocks are dark brown.

This is a salt block.

http://www.windsorsalt.com/images/agricultural/blaco_big1.gif

 

[Katy]

Purina has a flock block, but you can see all the seeds in it. We buy an orange colored salt/mineral block for our cows.

 

[Chicabee19]

oh... yeah, you're probably right! When I was growing up salt blocks were white. Have they changed?

 

[Katy]

They still make the white ones....that one is just plain salt. The different colored ones just have added minerals in them. We get a yellow one and also an orange colored one.