I know I am on the opposite side of the country and dealing with whitetails but I put out a homemade mix I got from another forum of 100 lbs trace mineral (the red stuff) 50 lbs stock salt and 50 lbs dicalcium phosphate 2 weeks ago, it was in a pile about 3 feet wide and a foot and a half tall (I think you are actually supposed to dig a hold and put it in but I just put it on top of the ground) and then topped it with a couple pounds of corn to get the initial interest of the deer and in just a couple days all the corn was gone and I could see where the deer had been lightly pawing and licking it. Well now two weeks later the deer have completely destroyed the pile, some is gone and they have spread it a bit and have began pawing out holes in the ground under and around where the pile started out, they have pawed the pile, licked it, been all in and around it! They seem to love it, might give it a try. The loose stuff is definately supposed to be better than using solid blocks also, the deer often try to bite blocks which are very hard, with loose stuff they can take mouthfulls if wanted and it seems like they do.