Abstract: A pelleted mineral supplement for land animals is provided. Each of the pellets is a cohesive mass of mineral components that when consumed by a land animal promotes the health and/or growth of the animal, and each of the cohesive masses has a largest dimension less than 0.5 inches. In certain aspects of the invention, the pelleted mineral supplement can be combined with a conventional animal feed to provide a mineral-supplemented animal feed.

Abstract: A process of attracting land animals and/or supplementing the diet of land animals with mineral nutrients involves selecting a location for attracting and/or supplementing the diet of the land animals and disposing at the selected location a compressed cohesive mass of mineral components that when consumed promotes health and/or growth, wherein the compressed cohesive mass of mineral components has a size, shape and mass that facilitates portability, ease of delivery to a selected location and avoidance of communal consumption that could promote the transmission of disease.