Do any of you add anything to salt licks or just strait salt. I have put the red trace mineral in ours before..

Thanks Matt

Perennial food plots is all we feed and out quality is improving based upon the number of young bucks with nice racks.

“Do any of you add anything to salt licks or just strait salt. I have put the red trace mineral in ours before.”

We add dicalcium phosphate, trace minerals, and salt to our mineral sites. We also include Whitetail Institute 30-06 Plus Protein where we can (yes, I know it’s expensive). Our deer hammer our mineral sites. Put down the dicalcium phosphate first because the deer will dig down to reach it.

I use Whitetail Inst 30-06
It has about everything in it, just a little high priced

I'm going to try off season planting and supplemental feeding with protein this year. I'm not necessarily trying to fatten up the deer, I'm just hoping year around free food will attract more deer to hang around our property. Years ago on a piece of small farm land, before we started farming, we rarely saw a deer. We started planting about 10 acres of corn and 5 acres of peas and the deer came out of the woodwork! We started being over run with deer. I have no idea if planting is what did it but it certainly didn't hurt. I've got around 350 acres I hunt. If I can attract deer from surrounding properties is what I'm after. What I'm afraid of is I'm feeding my neighbors deer... I'll try it out his year and see what happens.

I buy those trophy rocks when I find them on sale and drop them on clay balds. They turn into watering holes pretty quick.
I only have 34ish acres that I can control these days but I keep something of value planted on my acres-worth of open ground year round. I am planting clover and chicory in my primary plot. I’ve added fruit trees(pears, peaches and persimmons) specifically for game as well as blueberries(which are caged for now) and crabapples. I’m opening up forest understory to encourage the existing honeysuckle, etc. to thrive and keeping a now 7-8 year old clearcut in an early succession situation with forbs and briars.
That said, four years of ownership and watching in, I have a core group of does year round. Only the occasional young buck during summer passes through. The boys start showing up in September and October. But I’m going to provide the best smorgasbord for those does that I can in natural browse with a few cultivated plots to add to it.