RE: home made mineral licks
ill have to add my .02 in here because i make my own mineral licks and i have personally seen much improvement on over all health of the deer heard from minerals. i got 4 mixes on 4 differnt properties. from what i have seen over the years on this mineral lick is you NEED to have stock/rock salt in the mix. trace and di-cal does notcut it. the object of a mineral lick is to trick the deer into eating it so it helps in fawning and devolping antlers. shure you can mix di-cal and trace minerals and you will see prints and spot where they eat a little bit, but trust me on this the deer dont like the taste of di-cal and trace minerals alone. you add the salt to trick them into licking it. my recipe is the same but it goes like this
50lb di-cal
100lb stock salt
100lb of trace minerals.