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1023 minerals

giles

Cull buck specialist
Supporting Member
Jesse, I've read your article a couple times over the past year or so over at the other place. I searched around on here looking for updates. Is your mix for minerals still the same? It was originally posted back in 08', lots has changed in that time. I'm looking to add some minerals here at my place and looking for info. It was an outstanding write up you did! Just wondering if things have changed or not.
 

bowhunter1023

Owner/Operator
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Appreciate it man.

What's changed is my free time and dedication. The mix is still the mix. It works great and I stand behind the pseudoscience supporting my theories of why it is more beneficial than straight salt. That said, my own personal approach has changed due to lack of free time as much as anything. It's just easier to grab a trace mineral block and a bag of stock salt and dump them out. I also don't care as much about deer hunting as I used to, so the drive to go the extra mile has since passed.

If attraction for pictures is all that matters, regular old salt blocks, trace mineral blocks and/or stock salt work great. If you want to provide an added benefit and get as good, or better attraction, the mix I posted is great.
 

giles

Cull buck specialist
Supporting Member
Thanks for the response. I'm interested in fawn health the most, which means I gotta take care of the doe all year around. One of the others guys comments about prenatal vitamins and nursing vitamins is what really got my wheels turning a while ago.
 

bowhunter1023

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Appalachia
I'm sure I posted this, but for those who haven't heard or read it. The di-calcium phosphate in the mix is a supplement used with dairy cattle that is shown to improve protein retention in milk. Higher protein milk, healthier calves. Cattle are ruminants, so are whitetails. There is no science (that I've found) to support di-calcium phosphate providing similar benefits to whitetails. However I believe it does help. A ruminants digestive system is a true miracle of biology and is fairly complicated. If it works in one, stands to reason it should work in the other.