Salt and mineral licks for the cattle

Black Friday discounts, so I bought salt blocks, a bloat block, and tubs of mineral lick for my cattle for next year.   In the past I ran out of salt blocks during the year, so last year I bought lots of them.  I still had 8 salt blocks left this year.  Still, I bought 6 more blocks to be safe I have enough.

Usually I buy them at the Murdochs Ranch store.  But this year we also got a Tractor's Supply store in part of the old Kmart building.  I stopped there.  They were cheaper than Murdochs.  So I bought the salt blocks there, and also the mineral lick tubs.  Tractor Supply didn't have any bloat blocks.  So I went to Murdochs to get a bloat block.   Lots of people at Murdochs.  I had to drive around until someone pulled out of a parking spot.  Crowded in the store.   Most crowded of anywhere I went on Black Friday.

Then back to Tractor's Supply.  Their mineral lick is a different brand than Murdochs.  After comparing the mineral percentage I went for the ones at Tractor Supply.  The Tractor Supply's tub is 200 pounds, not 250 pounds of the Vitalix mineral tubs.  But the Tractor Supply's price was a little less than half the price of the Vitalix.   So I bought 2 tubs for the cattle.

I ended up putting an old Vitalix covering on the Tractor Supply's tub.  When driving home the cardboard flew out of the one tub.  I then put something on the other tub to make sure the other cardboard wouldn't fly out of that tub.