Salt for deer
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02/16/22 09:39 PM
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charles
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Which salt product is best for deer? Loose, small blocks, or standard blocks.
Do you mix it with soil or just pour or place on the ground or stump?
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Re: Salt for deer
[Re: charles]
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Mix some loose regular salt with a bucket of Lucky Buck (TSC). on a stump or in the dirt.
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Re: Salt for deer
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I put a yellow bag of water softener salt on a stump and deer go crazy over it. They will eat the dirt around the stump. White salt blocks work well, but people steal those here. I never could get deer to come to the reddish brown salt blocks much. That's funny, I've had better attendance at the mineral (red) blocks than the standard white. I don't think it matters, you could mix sand with stock salt and they would eat it. They crave the minerals, so they consume them, imo.
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Re: Salt for deer
[Re: charles]
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I've dumped a 50 lb sack of white salt in the same several spots every few years. I've got holes in the ground 2 ft plus deep and 10 to 15 foot round. Never saw a deer lick a block f salt. They always seem to nibble at the dirt underneath the block getting the salt that dissolves into the soil.
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Re: Salt for deer
[Re: charles]
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02/17/22 01:26 AM
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A friend took me to an old shed where salt blocks for livestock were once stored. Deer had eaten the wood threshold under the door. I've seen cattle eat the paint right off a barn, I'm assuming for the same reason.
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Re: Salt for deer
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Trophy rock, is what gets hit hardest here. Rural King and Tractor Supply both carry them Same here in Ga. Trophy Rocks get licked until they're gone. The heaviest use time is about to start....
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Re: Salt for deer
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03/13/22 11:13 AM
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Where are you from nosipho_truter
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Re: Salt for deer
[Re: charles]
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My guess is somewhere in Africa. Seeing a lot of spam post on other sites. Most linking to a fake site. Not saying that the post above is that but folks need to be careful. Especially with a first time poster.
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Re: Salt for deer
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Illegal to put salt out for deer in Mi. so they get theirs off the roads in spring those little divots that are cut on the centerlines every foot make perfect containers
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Re: Salt for deer
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We can't bait anymore here. Some are switching to h2o holes &/or licking sticks
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Re: Salt for deer
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I put out some acorn and apple mineral blocks last year with almost no interest
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Re: Salt for deer
[Re: BryanOney]
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08/06/22 03:04 AM
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I put a yellow bag of water softener salt on a stump and deer go crazy over it. They will eat the dirt around the stump. White salt blocks work well, but people steal those here. I never could get deer to come to the reddish brown salt blocks much. This is what I do. I'll hatch out the center of the stump.
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Re: Salt for deer
[Re: AJE]
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We can't bait anymore here. Some are switching to h2o holes &/or licking sticks Check out "licking ropes"
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Re: Salt for deer
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08/06/22 06:22 AM
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Bulk Trace mineral salt, mixed with di calcium phosphate. Lactating does benefit from the phosphate, and both bucks and does benefit from the calcium. Deer need the minerals and deer will not consume the di cal without mixing it with the trace mineral salt. Salt alone does little benefit to deer, it is just an attractant. Another thing it is good to place your mineral lick close to a water supply. Spot on... A lot of minerals needed for whitetails exists in natural forage and natural licks, certain regions lack the much-needed trace minerals in plants and soil - supplementing minerals in these situations make sense. If you're mixing salt to attract the deer to minerals that's a sound strategy, sodium will attract deer but offers little nutritional benefit for the herd on its own. Di Cal promotes feed digestion, weight gain and milk production for lactating does, fetus development is an important part of herd health and antler development. Hardened antlers contain 40-50% organic matter, proteins mainly derived from calcium and phosphorous- the mineral intake of these two compounds helps with that development in bucks and replaces the drain on lactating does. I utilize Redmond Mineral Salt (I think a Trophy Rock is a chunk of Remond), Trace Mineral and Di Cal - Trace Mineral has a much higher ppm level of magnesium which is important because it promotes health and doesn't naturally exist in high quantities in certain regions. If you're in an area where it's legal to put out mineral stations- think longer term... a 5-year plan should produce noticeable results.
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Re: Salt for deer
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At least in my part of Wi, last year we were only allowed to bait during the archery season, making it impossible to feed deer during their growing season, other than utilizing food plots. I think it's like that statewide, except for the more than half the counties in which baiting is disallowed year round. I don't know if other states are like that.
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Re: Salt for deer
[Re: charles]
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Is there something to mix in to kill ticks?
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Re: Salt for deer
[Re: AJE]
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At least in my part of Wi, last year we were only allowed to bait during the archery season, making it impossible to feed deer during their growing season, other than utilizing food plots. I think it's like that statewide, except for the more than half the counties in which baiting is disallowed year round. I don't know if other states are like that. There's not a lot of counties left in Wisconsin- if you put minerals out during the prescribed times- the deer will still be mining those sites in the spring. Timing: No person may: • place, use, or hunt over bait or feed during the closed season for hunting deer, but may start to place bait for deer hunting 24 hours prior to the first deer hunting season, which is the archery season. Note: The 24-hour period is the period from 12:00 A.M. to 11:59 P.M. on the day immediately before the archery deer season.
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Re: Salt for deer
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Trophy rock, is what gets hit hardest here. Rural King and Tractor Supply both carry them Next time your in TSC look at the analysis on that 20 dollar trophy rock . Then look at the analysis on the 7 dollar brown mineral block Your welcome
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Re: Salt for deer
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HeavyDieselSparks on youtube went into the salt mine that they get trophy rock from, good information and fun video to watch.
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Re: Salt for deer
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We can't bait anymore here. Some are switching to h2o holes &/or licking sticks I remember when they first OK'd baiting, think it was in the late '90's. Was hunting up in the Glidden area on a shirt tail relatives place. about a dozen large bait piles all over a 40 acre tract. Deer tracks all over the place around the bait piles. Several of us sat on those bait piles for many days straight. It was rare to see a deer. Next morning fresh tracks all over and the bait was all gone. Seemed to me it allowed the deer to fill up big time at night and lay in the swamps all day and sleep the full belly off. But if its legal and you feel you need the help go ahead and use bait.
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Re: Salt for deer
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We can't bait anymore here. Some are switching to h2o holes &/or licking sticks I remember when they first OK'd baiting, think it was in the late '90's. Was hunting up in the Glidden area on a shirt tail relatives place. about a dozen large bait piles all over a 40 acre tract. Deer tracks all over the place around the bait piles. Several of us sat on those bait piles for many days straight. It was rare to see a deer. Next morning fresh tracks all over and the bait was all gone. Seemed to me it allowed the deer to fill up big time at night and lay in the swamps all day and sleep the full belly off. But if its legal and you feel you need the help go ahead and use bait. Down here most people use feeders that are on timers. Only scatters a bit of corn at certain times of the day.
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Re: Salt for deer
[Re: Kevin Colpetzer]
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Trophy rock, is what gets hit hardest here. Rural King and Tractor Supply both carry them Yep Trophy rock works great on the farm we hunt in Ky. Also the mineral salt for livestock,.
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Re: Salt for deer
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Couldn't find Kelly on Bowsite?
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Re: Salt for deer
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What state or city was Kelly from.
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