Salt Block
05-24-2005, 05:56 PM
#21
Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2005
Location: SE PA
Posts: 657
RE: Salt Block
about how logn will it take for them to start using one consistently, becuase i have one out at a heavily used intersection but the dirt around it has no tracks in it!!! and its been a few days
G Lew, KOTW
G Lew, KOTW
05-25-2005, 10:18 AM
#22
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Quebec,Canada, yes, I live in an Igloo
Posts: 104
RE: Salt Block
ORIGINAL: glew22
about how logn will it take for them to start using one consistently, becuase i have one out at a heavily used intersection but the dirt around it has no tracks in it!!! and its been a few days
G Lew, KOTW
about how logn will it take for them to start using one consistently, becuase i have one out at a heavily used intersection but the dirt around it has no tracks in it!!! and its been a few days
G Lew, KOTW
If I were you, I'd try attracting them to the salt block... put a few apples or something right on top of the block, it cant hurt.
Goodluck
05-25-2005, 09:11 PM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NW Montana / SW Alberta Rockies
Posts: 3,258
RE: Salt Block
I've got a salt block and a mineral block outside my kitchen window here for the past 5 yrs and I put it it a dried out stump. It takes about a year or two for the deer to get familiar with it but when they do its like clock work. My salt block now after the winter is worn down and the deer is just digging and wallering out a hole licking the salt in the hole, long after the block is gone. I have even seen coyotes and moose at the lick. The mineral block is not worked by the deer at all but worn by erosion or maybe even rodents, and about 5 yrs ago I threw out some corn and the deer didn't even know what it was as I could see deer tracks going through it, but the squirrels and rodents just loved it. When putting out a salt block its always a good ideal to have a tub of water available because after the salt they'll head for the water trough. Bobby
