Make Your Own Deer Mineral 

Dicalcium Phosphate + Trace Mineral Salts = Best Mineral Site. Dig a 10" deep hole 18"x18" wide and mix the two together. Poor water into the minerals and it hardens like a lick. Your deer will find it in no time. These two products can be bought at your local Co-Op. Most bucks will travel up to 5 to 10 miles to find these minerals that they need. This is a great way to hold deer if you aren't able to plant the summer foods. Crude Protein is always important for the deer, but this definitely helps with antler growth due to the fact that their horns are largely made up of calcium. Have fun guys and gals!

Can you put this on a stump like the pops loose moose mineral?

I AM IN NORTHWESTER ONT, CANADA with 20 acars of nothing but red clay, I have tried to build feed plots but they just will not grow in this hard red clay, 27 years a go i set out 8 Mineral Salts blocks some just under spruce clumps,, short scrub type and some in the open, the dear have eaten the clay around these locations 6 feet around and to date they are 2 to 4 feet deep now, wet soap clay I mix cracked corn in with the mix, as 2 years a go I seen commercial made block with corn in them at 27.00 CND now, I have used the same spots year after year, for dear putting it on an old stump don't work, but works great in my mosses land, mosses don't like it on the ground, they love old high stumps, I think it is because they don't like having to get right down to the ground, they are use to getting Minerals Salts of the banks of hyw, old rock cliffs were Mineral and salts leach out naturally Salts

Making a batch this week. Can't wait

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Been doing this a few years. Only diffrence is I use salt water softener pellets in place of the stock salt to save even more money. Works great! great video BTW....

I cant wait to see if I can get some good trail camera photos off of this. Thank you Realtree and Tony for the recipe and tips!

A few questions. What time of year is ideally to do this? How much do you per site? And how many times a year do you restock your site? Thanks.

Nice I can't wait to try this

what was the ratio??

Range Mineral has 6% phosphorus, get that it you can. I use 1 part range mineral, 1 part fine stock salt, 2 parts red trace mineral salt. They tear it up!! Now, this will take time to see results. You will not get 200" bucks by the first Fall. Put it out as early as possible so the does can get as much as they want while pregnant. The fawns DEFINITELY benefit. As soon as the ground thaws or right after the season (in the South).

This is not a true supplement. Ratios way out of balance. Too much salt. This WILL NOT help grow antlers. This is an attractant, nothing more.