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Kabardin horse with lick-log on pasturage

How to Make Your Own Salt Block

Published Jul,08 2011 | By Stellina Aubuchon

Salt blocks, also known as salt licks, are used by farmers for domesticated animals and by hunters to attract deer. Echonet.org states that salt blocks provide animals with the proper nutrients that they not only need but desire, and they can smell the sodium from far away.

Stellina Aubuchon has been writing since 2003. She writes on health and communication issues for various websites. Her past writing experience includes her master’s degree thesis on college students' oral health. Aubuchon is working towards her doctoral degree in communication studies, with a specific emphasis in health communication, sensation-seekers and risky behaviors.