How to protect salt block from rain in pasture

[QChickieMama]

I have steers. I have a stall for them in inclement weather, but in good weather, I hate to have them in there. They make an understandable mess of it and then lie down in all the mess and it won't dry out. But that's where I keep their salt block.

How do you put a salt block out for animals--where the rain won't fill the tray and dissolve it and fill your pasture with salt?

 

[Percheron chick]

Place the salt block in a feed pan without holes. Yes it will sit in water and dissolve but as the water evaporates, the salt will settle out and you will have salt covering the bottom of the pan. They will lick the salt off the bottom. I feed loose salt and just hang a bucket on a fence post.
They do make mineral feeders with covers that rotate to the prevailing wind but they are pricey.

 

[Isadora]

Place the salt block in a feed pan without holes. Yes it will sit in water and dissolve but as the water evaporates, the salt will settle out and you will have salt covering the bottom of the pan. They will lick the salt off the bottom.

This is what we do. Salt block in a feed pan.

 

[QChickieMama]

Geepers. You guys are helpful. Seems obvious but I didn't think of using a feed bucket.

Thanks!! They'll get shut out tonight and STILL have salt.