RE: mineral blocks
Here is the best thing you can do for deer when givingthem minerals:
2 50lb bags of red trace mineral
1 50lb bag of stock salt
2 50 lb bag of dicalcium phosphate
mix it all together and dig a 5 or 6 ft hole 3 ft deep and mix it with the dirt.
You are at the right time of year when the deer will use it the most, bucks growing racks and does feeding youngsins.
Trace mineral will give the deer the minerals that they don't get in there feed but need. The salt is for flavor and attraction and has absolutly no nutitional value at all. The di-cal is a supplement of calcium and phosphatethat is the 2major ingrediants in milk and antlers.
I have been doing this mix for 6 years now and you can tell a diffenece in the deer. this coming from a farm that used only salt blox.