Homemade Mineral Recipes
07-13-2009, 08:25 AM
#24
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Central PA
Posts: 829
Pike, you have by far the best trail cam pics on here. Are these taken in Ohio? Is it a lease or a club? That's the closest to here I have seen bucks like the ones you consistently post. I always enjoy looking at them and then compare what I have on cam to the ones you post. I was running even until I saw the width on that one, amazing what happens when you let them walk as 11/2 and 2 1/2 year olds.
07-13-2009, 01:26 PM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: York, PA.
Posts: 1,313
4ever, Thanks!! The pics are from my lease (club) in SE. OH. that I have strictly managed for 8 years now, the herd is just now rebounding from a bad outbreak of EHD. two summers/falls ago.
Also my buddy switched some of my cards in my cams today so I should have some new pics this eve. Pike
Also my buddy switched some of my cards in my cams today so I should have some new pics this eve. Pike
Last edited by J Pike; 07-13-2009 at 01:36 PM.
07-16-2009, 05:13 AM
#26
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Central PA
Posts: 829
I hunt in Jackson County Ohio near Chillicothe. Is that anywhere close to where you are at? Last year I had seen 5 shooters but murphy's law prevailed and I ended up coming home with a 6 and 1/2 year old doe and no buck. She weighed 160 lbs.. bigger than alot of Pa buck I see.
It looks like youve been doing an awesome job out there. I am attempting to do the same thing here in PA because I want my wife to be able to see deer while she is hunting for them which is uncommon on public grounds surrounding us. Thanks again for posting these pics!
It looks like youve been doing an awesome job out there. I am attempting to do the same thing here in PA because I want my wife to be able to see deer while she is hunting for them which is uncommon on public grounds surrounding us. Thanks again for posting these pics!
07-21-2009, 04:42 PM
#29
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Blue Ridge Mountains of VA
Posts: 698
Yeah Hoss, I guess I'm a believer/sucker also. For me, it's all about doing whatever I can to improve where natural browse might lack.
Back last March, you posted your mineral recipe which included adding lime. That was new to me and I liked that idea. When I refreshed my mineral sites, lime was added. I have no doubt lime is beneficial to deer. Food plots and Ag fields that have had lime applied definitely get more deer usage that's for certain.
And yeah,yeah,yeah I've read how salt is the only thing a deer needs, so you other guys can save your cut and paste!!
07-23-2009, 07:51 AM
#30
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Person Co. NC
Posts: 884
Oh heck, I didn't add the recipe.
100# mineral salt, 50# dical, 50# stock salt, 40# dolomitic lime. Put it out in Feb, top it off with a little mineral salt in July.
I think its the same as qdma recipe except the lime, which is a cheap way to increase the calcium/phosphorus ratio closer to where I think it ought to be, plus a little magnesium. I dont remember what dical was, but I think it was close to 20% calcium and 20% phosphorus. I read something somewhere(no clue where) that said the percentage of calcium should be 2 to 3x higher than the phosphorus. Besides lime($3.10) is alot cheaper than dical(last bag was $30)
100# mineral salt, 50# dical, 50# stock salt, 40# dolomitic lime. Put it out in Feb, top it off with a little mineral salt in July.
I think its the same as qdma recipe except the lime, which is a cheap way to increase the calcium/phosphorus ratio closer to where I think it ought to be, plus a little magnesium. I dont remember what dical was, but I think it was close to 20% calcium and 20% phosphorus. I read something somewhere(no clue where) that said the percentage of calcium should be 2 to 3x higher than the phosphorus. Besides lime($3.10) is alot cheaper than dical(last bag was $30)