Yessiree. And I might very well lick one again if I ever get the chance. If only for the barefoot-summer-and-the-smell-of-fresh-cut-hay nostalgia.
Oddly enough, yeah, I have. It was new, though, about to be put in the barn.
I’m sure I must have once or twice when I was hanging around one of my great uncles’ farms.
Yes.
Yes, it was quite tasty all the times I have indulged. I have never mustered enough licks to get to the center of a salt lick though. I wonder how many licks that would take. I have also feasted on feed corn as well. It looks like candy corn except it is better and more nutritious. It is good and wholesome to munch on it around the barnyard.
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Well sure, who hasn’t? Not often (maybe 2 or 3 times) because it’s pretty much just… you know… salt.
Not only have I licked many salt licks, it was my habit to knock a corner off a new lick for my personal use. Alfalfa pellets aren’t bad, either.
I was at a feed and seed last week where they had some sort of salt crystal - it was really pretty! I had to exert some strong self control to keep from licking it. I would have but it was right up on the check out counter in front of everyone.
Yeah, this is why I spend several hours a day moderating this forum.
You are sooo on my list. 
Back in my childhood, my mom would buy these for the horses. And yes, I licked more than a few. I’m sure a lot of us did.
I used to wonder when we went to the feed store why they didn’t just have one on the counter for the customers. I guess if I ever buy a farm, I’ll have to have a smaller version sitting on my desk, we could pass it around at parties or something. Yeah, we have great parties way out here in the sticks.
You cannot silence the salivating!!! 
“Lick Lickers” does make a snazzy t-shirt slogan.
No, but I used to eat rock salt as a kid, not having been a farm kid. If I’d had access to a salt lick (a new one, not one covered in cow spit), I’d have licked it.
I was going to say no, and then I remember being in the feed store when I was small and it smelled so good…my mother was so embarrassed! It was a little disk, a pinkish color. The other salt licks that were around were for the cows. Ick, cow slobber! The horses didn’t need salt licks, or I’m sure I would have tried theirs. Sweet feed is amazingly tasty, especially the corn. Alfalfa pellets are pretty good, too. Actual alfalfa hay isn’t bad, either. Ah, the joys of rural life!
No, I haven’t. I can’t say I’ve ever been on a farm with animals. If I had been, I can’t see it having occurred to me to wonder, then find out what dirty, dried-cow-saliva-caked salt tasted like.
Ew.
I suppose I just don’t consider them very dirty. Having spent many hours up to my knees in chow shit, their tongues are quite pristine in comparison. I kinda think of it like Joey’s self-cleaning soap. 
Nope. Never even seen one in person.
Also…ew. I can absolutely understand the appeal of a fresh-out-of-the-box or…however salt licks come packaged one (in fact, I sometimes wish I had such a thing, because mmm salt), but one that’s in a barn? Ew. Ew ew ew. I can’t imagine voluntarily putting anything that’s been in a barn…anywhere near any bodily orifice.
Yes, I am a ‘city girl’.
All the ones that I’ve shlepped around haven’t come packaged. They might have a strip of paper around the middle with the manufacturer’s info on it, or they might just be stamped with that information. They come in the store on great big pallets that are wrapped in plastic, but the blocks themselves aren’t wrapped in anything. Which leads me to my feeling of:
Oh, disgusting! You guys have licked those things? They smell awful, even the white ones. The brown ones smell even worse. They smell all animal-grade medicinal. I can’t be sure where or what they’ve been in at the store, but I know they’ve been in the back of the truck and I know what’s been in there.
I’m not so disgusted by the cow saliva, really, because they’re pretty friendly with sharing it, whether you like it or not. Cow shit doesn’t really gross me out either, although I don’t really like it and certainly wouldn’t want it in my mouth. (Sometimes you get hit in the face with a tail when you’re milking, and you spend the next couple days wondering how weak a bleach solution would be safe to gargle.) But the thought of voluntarily licking something that has been dragged all over who knows what in an ag store? I think I’d rather lick a stall door in a men’s room.
As for eating field corn? Oh my god, no way. Rats and mice and snakes and earwigs crawling all over it in the storage bin. No way.
I don’t even know what it looks like, let alone what it tastes like.
I helped with rabbits, they have one for rabbits and such like. I tasted it, and yes, it was salty. :eek: