Ive always been told to use what the deer like, thats in the area. If corn is the preffered crop in the area, then pile up some corn. If sugar beets are the fave, then sugar beets. Deer to me are alot like three year olds. They dont like new food, they will only eat what they are used to eating. Its hard to get a deer to eat apples if they dont know what an apple is. JMO

by 16% sweetfeed I think he ment 16% protien. TSC by me had it it 10 and 12% protien.

It seems like with the freezing weather the deer don't smell the new feeds/bait as well. I have some of the sweetfeed out mixed with some soybeans and they havn't touched it. It has been out 4 days. Seems like the sweetfeed/beans would be like a candy buffet to a kid for the deer. hmmm. I've got to try somthing else, blackpowder is comming soon and no deer sightings lately.

Lobi is correct.

It is used primarily for horses and I used it to pull deer "next door" from corn piles. I never had any luck with 10 or 12% sweetfeed only 16 and 20% sweetfeed seemed to work!

Use some Whitehouse 100% pure apple juice and pour over your corn pile if the sweetfeed doesn't work. Or use sweetpotatoes. Deer also love peanut butter in the jar. Poke a hole in the jar lid, nail about 4' off the ground to a tree then screw the jar back on the lid and cut off the bottom of the jar so the deer can get to it. It may take them some time to find it if that is all you use, but man, I have see does/bucks actually tear the jar off the tree getting to it.
I've had some luck with DeerCane blocks as well, however salt worked just as good if I dug a hole and poured water over the saltblock. The deer tore up the ground all around the salt before actually licking the salt block.

As stated before cabbage works well too.

It figures ..16 or 20% is all that works. 10 and 12 was all they had at the local feed store so I bought 12%

How about the apple juice concentrate on the sweetfeed? i think I'll try that. I'll post results.

Never tried it on the sweetfeed only on the corn. Let us know how it works...

Well I doctored up the sweetfeed with the apple juice concentrate and they still have ignored it. Interestingly tho the carrots about 15 yds the other direction seem to have been hit finally last night but they did not touch the sweetfeed. The carrots have been un-touched for a long time. Did they smell the applejuice and come in but chose the carrots over the sweetfeed?? hmm

Lobi - that's interesting about the sweet feed. I'm right down the road from you so our deer probably have about the same diet I would think. During October, the deer nailed the carrots hard. As the season went on, they their appetites for carrots tappered off to the point of letting them rot. They would eat the sugar beets that have been out there for two months though. And of course, will hoover up corn as fast as you can put it down. Funny critters.

Well here goes nothing.. I put out a bale of hay doctored up with Molasses, concentrate apple juice , and vanilla. I'm crossin' my fingers that I can steal them away from the neighbors buffet with Bob's recipie

I'll let you all know if I get me some action. If it seems to be working I'll probably have to put out the camera again.

Bait piles have never been much of a factor here in Ohio so far I know. Although, I have heard that they will come to vanilla saturated salt blocks like a magnet. So, the hay bale saturated with molasses and vanilla should be a good concoction. I believe molasses and vanilla is really cheap so that might be an effective and economical tactic.

TBO

Three days = Beautiful doctored up (molasses, vanilla, apple juice)bale of hay UNTOUCHED!

Did I scare them off with a "too good to be true" offering?

Time to find different land to hunt maybe.