REAL deer magnet
02-01-2010 | 10:35 AM
#31
Typical Buck
Joined: Sep 2008
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From: South Dakota
Good enough for me! Im not here to debate either. If you've found something that works good for your deer herd, then great! I just thought maybe there was something else i could learn.
Alot of what i know about this stuff i've learned from Pike. His pics and the articles that he posts are hard to deny.
02-01-2010 | 12:07 PM
#32
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: central and east texas
tsc has no idea what dicalcium phosphate is...does it have another name? as much calcium thats in this product, it should be beneficial to growin healthy bones...so there for it is good for the deer...im still stuck on findin this stuff though...anybody?
Never buy overpriced deer attractants again
Im talkin about "deer molasses","cmere deer", deer cocaine", ect.
Make it yourself from all the exact same ingredients.
Go to any farm store head to the feed section
pick up STOCK SALT, TRACE MINERAL,DI-CALCIUM PHOSPHATE
All come in fourty to fifty pound bags and run $5-$10
Use a coffee can as measuring cup
Mix two cans stock salt and trace mineral
And three cans calcium phosphate
With that mixture you can make as much as you need
Now set up is a little work. Dig the ground up about four to six inches deep and about four foot around. Spread the mineral
around in the dug up ground mixing it with the dirt. Then every month or so you can freshen up you area with a couple coffee cans. This stuff also works wonders when sprinkle over the hopper of a corn feeder.
Deer love this mix and it is very good for them also.
I promise they will eat it like hogs good luck
Im talkin about "deer molasses","cmere deer", deer cocaine", ect.
Make it yourself from all the exact same ingredients.
Go to any farm store head to the feed section
pick up STOCK SALT, TRACE MINERAL,DI-CALCIUM PHOSPHATE
All come in fourty to fifty pound bags and run $5-$10
Use a coffee can as measuring cup
Mix two cans stock salt and trace mineral
And three cans calcium phosphate
With that mixture you can make as much as you need
Now set up is a little work. Dig the ground up about four to six inches deep and about four foot around. Spread the mineral
around in the dug up ground mixing it with the dirt. Then every month or so you can freshen up you area with a couple coffee cans. This stuff also works wonders when sprinkle over the hopper of a corn feeder.
Deer love this mix and it is very good for them also.
I promise they will eat it like hogs good luck
Last edited by halfbakedi420; 02-01-2010 at 12:23 PM.
02-01-2010 | 12:15 PM
#33
Banned
Joined: Jan 2010
Posts: 124
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From: South Cackalaky
iSnipe it is hogwash, the whitetail deer's digestive system cannot process the mineral supplements and deposit them in their skeletal frame. There has been numerous studies done on this very topic starting way back in the 1950's and not one of them has shown any benefit from mineral blocks, licks, rocks and yes even super duper home made recipe's other than providing the deer with a source of salt. The only reason I use them is to get the deer to step in front of my cams. Pike
The antlers absorb minerals through the velvet....
02-01-2010 | 01:43 PM
#34
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Apr 2003
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From: York, PA.
Jack both male and female deer store minerals etc. in their skeletal frame thru out the year and their body uses them as needed to grow antlers and produce fawns etc. by the way it takes as much for a buck to produce a trophy set of antlers as it does for a doe to produce 2 fawns.
I think that you are mistaken about bucks absorbing minerals thru their velvet, but soft tissue is converted directly to bone by the deposition of minerals
(mineralization) within the matrix of cartilage and blood vessels in the developing antlers.
But if you have a link to an article, study etc. I would be very interested in reading it. Thanks, Pike
I think that you are mistaken about bucks absorbing minerals thru their velvet, but soft tissue is converted directly to bone by the deposition of minerals
(mineralization) within the matrix of cartilage and blood vessels in the developing antlers.
But if you have a link to an article, study etc. I would be very interested in reading it. Thanks, Pike
Last edited by J Pike; 02-01-2010 at 01:51 PM.
02-01-2010 | 02:18 PM
#35
Typical Buck
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From: South Dakota
02-01-2010 | 02:32 PM
#36
Typical Buck
Joined: Feb 2009
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From: Blue Ridge Mountains of VA
Around here its sold as Ultra-Phos. 18½ Monocal
I live in an area with lots of Poultry and Dairy farms, so its readily available and probably more reasonably priced than in areas without that type of Ag.
If you cain't find it locally or its too expensive, then lime would be just as good IMO and much cheaper.
02-01-2010 | 03:00 PM
#37
Nontypical Buck
Joined: Oct 2007
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From: central and east texas
thx, but i already looked and put in a phone call..
02-03-2010 | 11:12 AM
#39
Fork Horn
Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 136
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From: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
I have been reading this thread as I want to learn for myself if licks are beneficial or just an attractant. I knew that deer store minerals in their skeletal system until it is required for anter growth, but how do they get those minerals in the first place...only through natural found minerals and not through supplementation at all? Do they not absorb the minerals that are in the cattle feed such as Di-cal and only absorb some other specific kind?
02-06-2010 | 07:04 AM
#40
Fork Horn
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 428
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From: South New Jersey
