Backwoods “buck trio”

Mine eat straight protein no problem. So I’m sure your deer will love the mix…

If you’re buying protein feed by the 50lb sack, you are wasting your money, whether they eat it or not.

Why? It’s feed for them and it’s nutrition. Yea it’s not gonna juice them up immediately but why?

Thanks for your advice

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Thanks for your advice

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How many ac are you hunting? What is the makeup of it? Black dirt bottomland? Red dirt pine thickets?
Ton of folks on here with a lot of experience.
If you haven’t looked up growing deer dr grant woods as well as Mississippi state university’s deer studies on nutrition go check them out.

I hunt 1000 acres of red dirt line thickets, and antler development is very poor, in spite of Cuz putting in year around food plots for years (following Mississippi St suggestions for the area). Last year, I put out protein immediately following the season, as did several of his neighbors, and we saw better racks than we’ve seen in the 15 years I’ve been hunting there.

I will say this. I started several mineral licks using a mix of sodium carbonate and pickling salt, and they hammer the shite out of those.

Not trying to be a smart***. Just think about it. How many deer do you think you’re feeding?

A buck eats 10-20 pounds of food a day. A lactating doe may be more. Now, at most 25% of that will be your supp feed, but still. A few sacks of feed is a drop in the ocean. You need to be measuring annual feed in tons per 100 acres for it to have a measurable impact and for it to be sustained over years. MSU deer lab and others have affirmed this over and over and aren’t susceptible to confirmation bias.

I do. I buy Arm & Hammer Wash Powder (yellow box). Regular baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, which supposedly isn’t good for them. Wash Powder is sodium carbonate, which is.

And I use Pickling Salt because it doesn’t have the additives that rock/ice cream salt does.

I just find a bare spot near my feeders and dump them out and mix up a little with a shovel. Once they start hitting it, you’ll have a hole in the ground to pour more into. They are at those more often than at the corn feeders