ORIGINAL: Rebel Hog
Oh I see, you are concerned with them moving to the private surrounding corp land.
Not concerned with them doing that at all, that is inevitable every year. Some people plant food plots of corn and use it to there advantage, corn up here is a bad thing for hunters since there is so much of it. When the corn gets taller then the deer theymove into it and bed and feed all in one spot and they only come out for water. I don't consider my good hunting to start until the corn comes off and they have to start moving in the woods again. The corn is out of my control, what I am concerned about is deer leaving my spot and moving to the next woods up the road which is about a quarter of a mile away and then not using my spot as much this fall when the fields are full of corn and bean stuff that the farmers leave behind.
Well, with that much food on the surrounding properties you are going to have to feed them the sweets and salts, they might go and eat on the other corps, but they will always come back for the Molassesand Mineral Salt Blocks.
Another thing that I have learned that does not work for my area. My mineral and saltlick sites get tore up like crazy in the spring and summer. Seems like when they are growing racks and and the doe have there fawns nursing. About August they stop using them around here. That is one thing that must be different about Ohio compared to other states. I have read some people on here that act like salt is candy for deer and it is illegal for them to use during season. I have thought that if I ever get interested in shooting squirrels again a salt block is a magnet for them, they tear that up in the fall! I have only seen one deer in my five years of using salt and mineral blocks lick them while I was in the stand, and that little guy was a button buck!
As for the Molasses goes, you being from the south should know how that works!! I put out some feed out once the first year I had the gravity feeder that had that in it and boy that was a mistake! I do not think I have ever seen that many ants in one spot above ground in my life! Molasses may work, but it needsto be after a long hard freeze, which I try to be done by that point.
I don't know how much property you have or if it's fenced. If you have a couple of Goats and feed them, the State cannot accuse you of baiting Wild Game!
If the Deer jump the fence, that's out of your control and your gain!
I like that idea Reb! The only problem is my wife may get jealous if I start buying a sheep or goats!!
