ORIGINAL: slobbyrobby33
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.
This is the way to go, and only costs a fraction of what you pay for a block. My neighbor told me of this mix after showing me trail cam pic of bucks visiting it. I ended up arrowing one of the bucks and wonder how much bigger he was due to the minerals he provided. It is a great place to set up trail cameras thru the summer months.