attracting fallow deer

[ackley243]

anyone use salt or mineral blocks for fallow

 

[Milk no sugar please]

Asked here once a week. Some say yes others say it’s waste of time.

Use the search function

 

[splash]

I find Brut always is attractive to the odd old Deer

Seriously though on a permission I used to shoot they had the odd lick and it was not really a magnet to be worth the bother

 

[User00043]

These

 

[stubear]

Have a widdle in a muddy puddle and then roll around in it - works for the bucks!

 

[.308max]

anyone use salt or mineral blocks for fallow

As I was told many times , don’t bother there a waste of money and don’t worry!

 

[Firefly]

Got two salt licks out 500 yards apart. One is regularly used the other never been touched. Identical blocks. They’re fickle.

 

[Malxwal]

Deer nuts and a silage bale ?

 

[Donkey Basher]

Pheasant feeders always seem popular with them in my experience.

 

[Alantoo]

Got two salt licks out 500 yards apart. One is regularly used the other never been touched. Identical blocks. They’re fickle.

Hmmph. That squashes my theory that they would work in geographical areas where they couldn't get enough salt in their diet...I admit this was based largely on the book The Singing Forest read in childhood where the deer trek off to the shore to chew seaweed and lick the rocks to acquire the missing minerals.

Alan

 

[Foxyboy43]

Peanut butter. Cut bottom off PNB plastic jar, screw two screws through inside of lid at waist height into stout tree then screw jar back on to lid. They will clear it in no time - works for whitetail in far off climes too!

 

[AGR]

Peanut butter. Cut bottom off PNB plastic jar, screw two screws through inside of lid at waist height into stout tree then screw jar back on to lid. They will clear it in no time - works for whitetail in far off climes too!

I think it would attract more squirrels than deer here. You may not have such a problem in NI.

 

[SamHuntVic]

Peanutbuttajas, doesn't he play cricket for Sri Lanka?
Grant.

 

[Foxyboy43]

I think it would attract more squirrels than deer here. You may not have such a problem in NI.

Sadly we do and the tree rats are giving our reds a very hard time. Still a good indicator though.

 

[sikamalc]

I use the Bushwear mineral blocks in one wood I have. As a rule I go through two a year in this wood. The blocks are the large ones with a distinct smell of aniseed.

 

[JTO]

I surmised that, being near the sea, there might be enough salt on the vegetation to satisfy the wants of the 'Roe' on my little patch. I've had a camera watching over a bushwear aniseed block and seen roe walk by without even looking at it.
I have been thinking about trying Crystalix!

 

[243varmint]

Pheasant feeders get a hammering around us.
The snall shoot that's on our fallow ground have given up with feeders in the cover strips.
They fenced one off once. They soon got to the feeder.