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| Tweet Topic Started: Feb 12 2009, 12:31 PM (2,236 Views) | |
| tizbass | Feb 12 2009, 12:31 PM Post #1 |
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Went over to the local feed store at lunch to check price and availability of the "secret ingredients" . OK so its not so secret ...I found the recipe on the net! For those who are interested or want to compare prices see below Di-Calcium phosphate $30/25kg Trace mineral salt $14.95/25kg Stock salt $16.50/40kg Might pick some up tomorrow if it ever stops raining. Tiz |
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| Renegade | Feb 12 2009, 12:36 PM Post #2 |
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I need some secret sauce too. Anyone have any idea where I can get this within a reasonable drive from Atikokan? Any options in Northern Minnesota??
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Feb 12 2009, 09:38 PM Post #3 |
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Very interesting,now what would you do with those?would you mix them together and make a pile or would you make a block out of them?And what would the mixture be % wise?
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| tizbass | Feb 12 2009, 11:45 PM Post #4 |
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Check it out.....http://forums.qdma.com/showthread.php?t=21649 You may need to registar...but its worth the time. Lots of good info |
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| tizbass | Feb 12 2009, 11:50 PM Post #5 |
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Also....http://iowawhitetail.com/forum/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=183333&fpart=1 |
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Feb 13 2009, 08:38 AM Post #6 |
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I've used this mixture for years, and my deer hammer it. I mix 1 part Di Cal with 2 parts trace mineral salt. (never used the stock salt) Di Cal is not palatable alone. I then find a likely place to make a mineral lick usually around a old hardwood stump, preferrably close to a water source. Then I losen the soil around the stump and mix in the mineral mixture. Be sure to put some of the mixture on top of the soil if you are starting a new lick, that way the deer will more easily smell your site. I sometimes to make it even more attractive, will mix in a box of dry strawberry,raspberry, jello mix. You can find these ingredients at anyplace that sells cattle feed. |
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| dakidsmno | Sep 17 2009, 03:45 PM Post #7 |
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50lbs. - di-calcium phosphate 100 lbs. - red trace mineral salt (LOOSE W/OUT MEDS) 50 lbs.- stock/ice cream salt--- This can be replaced by hy-phos. it cost a few more bucks but premotes antler growth and milk production. The first 3 ingr. can be purchased for under $30, if you use hy-phos it will run about another $15. This is the recipe that I have been using here in minesota and these are the prices that I paid at our local feed store The does really used it all summer long and are still using it now. I will use a coffe can to measure the ingrediants and mix up four 5 gallon buckets at a time. I dig a 2' X2' hole and just dump the mixture into the hole. My friend digs a bigger hole and will mix it in. Both ways work. |
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Sep 17 2009, 07:50 PM Post #8 |
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Boles Feeds in Thunder Bay 2 locations, or Thunder Bay Co-operative Farm Supplies just south of Thunder Bay. They have salt licks of various types, a dfferent food mixes at reasonalble pieces. All sorts of goodies not too far from Atikokan. |
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| Renegade | Sep 17 2009, 08:05 PM Post #9 |
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Cool. I used to go to Boles feeds to pick up salt. So they have some new stock now. Thanks for the heads up. I'll definately check it out.
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| Renegade | Mar 9 2010, 06:47 AM Post #10 |
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O.K. Let's revisit this. I want to know what I should be using. I'll have to give Boles feeds and Emo feeds a call and see if I can get some stuff in quantity! I would even travel to Minnesota.......
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Mar 9 2010, 08:35 AM Post #11 |
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Depends if you want to just attract deer or grow bodies and antlers. As long as it has salt in it you will attract deer but does very little for them as far as growth. |
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Mar 9 2010, 12:34 PM Post #12 |
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I've used this recipe for years, once in a while I'll add a box of strawberry or raspberry jello mix, just to give a sweet smell. Apple jello mix would be the best but I can never find it. |
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| Renegade | Mar 9 2010, 04:29 PM Post #13 |
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Antler growth is more what I'm interested in. No need to attract deer, they are all over all the time. |
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Mar 9 2010, 04:38 PM Post #14 |
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All I've ever used is 2-1 calcium and phosphrus and then mix it with granulated salt at a rate of 1/3 salt and 2/3 or more 2-1 mix... You have to remember salt is the intial attracter, but it is also a limiter of intake of the minerals. so you don't want to much salt, but it's ok to be strong at the intial start of the lick but then back off during main antler growth months. Since I've started doing this antler growth has taken off on younger bucks. It's cheaper than name brands and actually gives them more calcium and phosphrus then the name brands rates... |
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Mar 9 2010, 09:09 PM Post #15 |
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Very interesting . Good read
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Mar 10 2010, 12:06 AM Post #16 |
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That's a good formula. I've heard of different ratios of phospherous to calcium but your right in the ballpark with that mix. I usually do as you do and start out a little heavier with the salt and once they start using it cut back on the salt ratio. I talked to a guy who owns a deer mineral company and he formulates one of his mixes for farmland deer with no phospherous as he claims the deer get all the phospherous they need from the fertilizer absorbed by the farm crops. His mix is salt and calcium with some trace mineral added. He told me phospherous tastes very bitter to deer and they hesitate to eat it unless mixed with salt or other things that dilute it. He said his formula for areas in the big woods with no farmland contains phospherous and calcium as the deer need phospherous AND calcium to reach their potential. |
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| tizbass | Apr 5 2010, 04:07 PM Post #17 |
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This worked well for me last year. It is good to promote antler growth but my main reason for using it is to find out what bucks are frequenting my hunting areas. I did get pics of 8 different bucks at 3 sites but very few actual pictures. Does and fawns on the other hand were there almost every day. After the season started 5-6 "new" bucks entered the area as well. I'll be freshening up the sites this week so we'll see how year #2 will be. |
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Dec 18 2010, 10:36 AM Post #18 |
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Any one have any idea where to get these ingredients in Southern Ontario between Windsor and London I tried last year and was unable to locate the individual ingredients and had to go with the salt blocks instead Gibby |
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| Renegade | Dec 18 2010, 10:54 AM Post #19 |
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I managed to get some bags of Dicalcium phosphate from Emo feeds up here in the NW. The owner actually got a whole pallet brought in due to my pestering him...lol. I now mix a little of this in with my salt. |
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| willy 9889 | Apr 29 2013, 04:25 PM Post #20 |
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I was able to get all of the ingredient in the mix but had to use trace mineral salt in block form I just broke it in chunks with a sledge and it seemed to work fine. I picked up the ingredients at Mc Brayne feeds n needs in Dresden 519-683-4439 20 miles North of Chatham Hope this helps Willy
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Apr 30 2013, 07:40 AM Post #21 |
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I just use the Trace mineral and refined salt i get from CO-OP store. I pour the ingrediants over a stump and let the de er have at it. This pic is from this spring.
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Apr 30 2013, 10:28 AM Post #22 |
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I think we've posted this on other threads but we just use a landscaping rake and "till up" a three to four foot diameter circle to about three inches deep, pour out the mixture on top of the turned up soil, and then work it all back into the soil with the rake. We've done 7 or 8 sites so far this year, and the ones that we've kept from past years are almost like sinkholes they have been torn up so much. Even the ones we put out this year are getting annihilated. Last year we captured 10's of thousands of trail camera pictures over these sites. I took JBen around in January or so and they were still tearing up old mineral sites that hadn't been refreshed for 8 months or so, even digging through the snow to get to them. We also use the 1 part Di-Cal, 2 parts Trace Minerals, 1 part Stock Salt. |
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| Friggs | May 1 2013, 07:33 AM Post #23 |
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I guess these bags of ingredents last several years and i guess you store each mineral separate not mixed ? Do any of them go hard during storage ? Next year I'm going to buy all three but for now I have no storage area to keep this stuff. Friggs |
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The TM may clump a bit as will the salt but they break up easy. We've had a couple bags of TM that we found in the barn that were a few years old but they broke up fine. We store them separate and only mix them up into a bunch of buckets when we're going to put them out. |
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