Salt lick homemade deer cane

[duvhntr]

Poured out a sack of salt 3 weeks ago with arm and hammer washing soda mixed in.. a recipe I found for homade deer cane.. so far they are basically ignoring it.. lol

 

[BSK]

Just buy a Trophy Rock and be done with it! Hate to push any one product, but I sure have had great results with them over the years.

 

[CATCHDAWG]

Just buy a Trophy Rock and be done with it! Hate to push any one product, but I sure have had great results with them over the years.

Same. It's also the only mineral I have found that they will use year round. Obviously more so in spring/summer but they never go dead.

 

[Ski]

Another vote for Trophy Rock. Easy easy easy and effective. I set mine up on a bowled out stump. They seem to last longer than when put on bare dirt. The runoff still gets to the dirt and they wallow out all around the stump, but seems the rock itself dissolves faster when it's sitting down in the muck where there's often standing water.

 

[BSK]

I'm going with that technique next year Ski. All Rocks will be placed on stumps. They melt too fast when sitting in a puddle of water (which happens fast once the deer start licking the dirt around the Rock).

 

[Ski]

I'm going with that technique next year Ski. All Rocks will be placed on stumps. They melt too fast when sitting in a puddle of water (which happens fast once the deer start licking the dirt around the Rock).

Most of mine are firewood logs stood up in the middle of an old lick site, but I have a couple that are actual stumps. Deer don't seem to care either way.

 

[backyardtndeer]

Trophy rock is about the best. If you want them to find it quick, pour on some pink lemonade powder.

 

[Omega]

Poured out a sack of salt 3 weeks ago with arm and hammer washing soda mixed in.. a recipe I found for homade deer cane.. so far they are basically ignoring it.. lol

Did you water it in? For about the first three seasons I used a homemade mix in a hole where a stump had been:

1 Part Dicalcium Phosphate 50lb bag
2 parts Trace Mineral Salt 2-50lb bags
1 part Stock Salt 50 lb bags
1 box Sodium Carbonate per mix

Once mixed it has to be used so mix accordingly. If on just dirt make about a 30" hole about 4-6" deep pour the pre-mix in then add water to get it dissolved a bit. If it is going to rain just flatten it out and let nature wet it in. It took a couple weeks but once they found it, it gets visited each year. I now put a 40lb trace mineral block (same affect) in the hole before the season starts to keep it active, but there is enough to be able to skip a season or two.

 

[Browning3006]

Another vote for Trophy rock.

 

[Crappieaddict]

I use loose trace mineral salt from Rural King. No deer have complained.

 

[BSK]

Most of mine are firewood logs stood up in the middle of an old lick site, but I have a couple that are actual stumps. Deer don't seem to care either way.

Good, because that's what I'm going to do. We have firewood logs laying everywhere.

 

[mr.big]

Half and half dicalcium phosphate and red trace mineral salt ,,I mix about a gallon and pour in the hole about ever 6 weeks and they absolutely wear it out,,

 

[BSK]

I use loose trace mineral salt from Rural King. No deer have complained.

I may even pour some of that over the Rock to get it started faster.

 

[knightrider]

Crushed trophy rock and liguid trophy rock, one bag and one bottle at each site will last a year, they will dig up a chinaman in two seasons

 

[JAY B]

Another vote on the stumps, great success with blocks/rocks lasting longer

 

[Mr.Bro]

I got deer still using a site that hasn't had a new Trophy Rock in it in 3 years.

 

[Snake]

Just buy a Trophy Rock and be done with it! Hate to push any one product, but I sure have had great results with them over the years.

Amen !!

 

[Snake]

Did you water it in? For about the first three seasons I used a homemade mix in a hole where a stump had been:

1 Part Dicalcium Phosphate 50lb bag
2 parts Trace Mineral Salt 2-50lb bags
1 part Stock Salt 50 lb bags
1 box Sodium Carbonate per mix

Once mixed it has to be used so mix accordingly. If on just dirt make about a 30" hole about 4-6" deep pour the pre-mix in then add water to get it dissolved a bit. If it is going to rain just flatten it out and let nature wet it in. It took a couple weeks but once they found it, it gets visited each year. I now put a 40lb trace mineral block (same affect) in the hole before the season starts to keep it active, but there is enough to be able to skip a season or two.

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I'll use these blocks but mix half block of regular white salt block with it. I know the trace block is better for them but they seem to like the regular salt block better . Actually when I was working I go next door of the plant to the salt company and get plain rock salt. They used to give me all I wanted when we had the activity club lease . I've tied up rock salt in the sacks over the salt lick when it rained it freshened the site . When you live over 4 hours from the lease you have to be creative .

 

[RS]

Once there a while, they'll start eating the stump.

 

[megalomaniac]

I switched to the $10 for 44lb generic trace mineral block a few years ago when Redmonds (same manufacturer as trophy rock, but at 1/5 the cost of trophy rock) started jacking up their prices.

My salt licks (some 15 years old) are almost 20 inches deep, so I HAVE to set them on a cedar stump or they will melt away in 6 weeks.

 

[WTNBowHunter]

2 parts dicalcium phosphate with 1 part trace mineral salt. I put that out because MSU Deer Labs recommended it and they don't push any brands to my knowledge. It's a good read too where they talk about the minerals and how they play a part in mobilization. I do that right after season and then again in may/june. Then I add trophy rocks because they are easy and, as the pictures from previous posts would suggest, deer hammer em! Whoever said they dissolve fast if you throw them in an established mineral site or just on the ground wasn't lying either! I may look at adding a stump in the middle of my mineral sites just so they don't disappear in 2-3 weeks

 

[Headhunter]

I like putting on a stump for sure, been doing that ever since I first got Trophy Rock from Joe when he first started promoting it. Trace mineral salt from TSC works great also. 50 lb bag is like $8. I use trophy rock mostly but when I couldn't buy it from Joe in bulk anymore, I have been using trace mineral from TSC and they seem to like it for sure.

 

[BSK]

My salt licks (some 15 years old) are almost 20 inches deep, so I HAVE to set them on a cedar stump or they will melt away in 6 weeks.

This site was only 5 or 6 years into being a salt lick. It started as a 3-4-foot-tall mound of red clay pulled up by a root wad. I put the Trophy Rock at the highest point. Over the years it turned into a pit a couple of feet deep. Those deer sure ate a lot of dirt!

 

[jlanecr500]

Buy Redmond #10 fine from CO-OP. If they don't stock it, they can get it. Comes in 50# bags. It is crushed trophy rock from the same mine the rocks are from. Catman passed this tip on to the board years ago.