Why are cows always licking this rock?

good evening and welcome back to the stoney ridge farm got the cows all moved out here and i just want to show you guys in case you don't know you see this little block out in your cow pasture sometimes or when livestock's roaming around and this little block is a mineral block and it has trace minerals for the cows so this is what i call gatorade for the cow herd okay it gives them the minerals that they need and those minerals will pass through their body and go back out and feed the land and help our grass to grow better here on this regenerative farm so that is a mineral block and that is cindy the biggest fattest cow we have guys we'll see in the next video here on the stoney ridge farm beautiful day