Summer Deer Mineral Strategies
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- čas přidán 2. 06. 2021
- Should you use minerals for deer? Whether deer minerals work to grow big racks or not, there are several mineral tips and strategies that you can use this Summer.
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I am loving the almost every day videos man!
Haven’t missed a video, love the education we get from your videos. Starting our June chores this weekend. Thanks again Jeff
Another good one! Me and my friends here in GA follow your work like a training guide. Thank you for the no BS content.
Our version of "Venti" just showed up this week. Looking forward to seeing your findings soon!
Jeff is always great information once again I love the fact that you just continue to put out these videos to educate the hunting public I slept in a little today so I missed getting my comment in early I hope it's alright I always repost your stuff thanks from my friends and I
Great information Jeff. Getting ready in PA for another trophy whitetail season!
Disregard my commend about not being able to find your site.I tried again and found it right away thanks Jeff.appreciate your work 👍
I bought property last year and watched almost all your videos. It was incredible seeing the action on my mock scrapes last year, added water holes last month cant wait to hang cameras back up. I tell everyone to watch whs videos when i show them my trail cam picts. Keep the knowledge coming.
Don't forget the part about not going into your sanctuary, or center area of your property, for a month prior to hunting season and throughout the season, and only hunting in stands just inside your properties perimeter, where you access. Keeping the core of my property unpressured was key for my place being the holder of big bucks, over the neighboring properties.
Again another excellent video Jeff I used minerals one year it was big and j it work good I had few deer on it but it didn’t last long
Also if you are in a wooded area with poor ground and less nutrients or you cant do plots , minerals will help replenish what is getting pulled out of there skeletal system during antler growth , also if deer are lacking in some type of mineral this can help fill in a gap with what the deer is missing , a supplemental feed and mineral sites can help a lot , we do food plots , mineral sites and supplement feed year round and it has helped a ton , even if your on a property and can only do mineral , it can help fill in the gaps that the deer are lacking in during antler growth and fawn development
Deer typically only need salt/mineral bc high content of water intake through eating greens. Minerals may help very little in size but a little is better than none. Thanks Jeff
THANKS FOR SHARING ONES AGAIN YOURE AMAZING!
Thank YOU, I really appreciate you watching!
Awesome great advice
Thanks for the knowledge share Jeff👍 been using black magic in the same spot for years (not sure it works)Have a great day all!
Thanks for the eye opening information. I honestly thought minerals were just for antler growth.
Jeff ,great vidio
I d like to know how I can get a WHS cap or cup.where can I do that.?II cant find anywhere on net .
Keep up the great work .love it
Well spoken Jeff
Thank you very much Bob!
Its like you read my mind....was just thinking of mineral sites....I have property in northern WV - Forested Foothills/Mtn. Not an ag field within 75 miles. I cant add enough food sources to feed all the critters....thinkin mineral sites may help supplement and increase overall health. Will most likely mix my own to keep salt down to 20% at most.
Good Tod! So many thinking about minerals right now 👍
Jeff, I live in a state where it is legal to use minerals. My observation of mineral spots has been that they are more likely to be used by bucks and does during the months from January through the end of August. There is very little to almost zero use from September through January. I have also noticed that there is fewer visitations of mineral sites by deer when the surrounding food plots and Ag field are set up to meet their nutritional needs. In areas where guys have used a lot of chemical fertilizers without soil tests, I have a larger number of pix of nursing does at mineral sites near those areas.
Exactly bud, because those are the months they need them- spring and summer when body and horns are growing-, not in fall/winter when "growing" season is over
Great stuff - "Don't Drink The Koolaid" is now going on the Deer Coach wall with "Deer eat five times a day" 😂 - The only reliable thing I've read on minerals/salt is in support of the health of lactating does. Thx Jeff -
I cant put minerals here in IL 😥! But have been working on food plot and put up a mock scrape!
Have followed your videos n taken lots of notes. When you purchased hunting property did you put a house, pre fab or modular home on site or left it out.
Thanks 👍
Up hear in northern Ontario I use salt and minerals they hit it all spring and summer no good in the fall!! I also never hunt over salt just good for intel with a camera I leave out all year and check the following spring see what bucks are around! Good for the first couple weeks of bow hunting in September. After the first couple weeks they shift as the food and pressure change. 🦌🍻
Cause they don't need them in fall, pretty simple
Great as always , here is my ? Would minerals be to deer for antler growth as steroids to a juice head/ body builder .. my buddies n I debate all the time ,, what makes a deer farm grow 200"+ deer minerals and genetics .. thanks again for your time
I use the green mineral block.the block has a fly additive to reduce the fly problem that gets really bad here in Missouri . it's made for cattle but the deer love it too.the deer I watch seems to not be bothered by the black fly's that use these block.But the best I've found is food plots with good neutrion to make bucks grown better racks.
Do u hack n squirt
@@Eastky23wildlife no I don't I cut it down or hinge cut it
So Jeff, in other videos when you have said to cut out summer food does that apply to mineral? Or is the mineral ok to leave out during the summer as long as there are no summer food plots? Trying to learn so i can determine what will best help my herd for a good hunt this fall, thanks!
Jeff...a question on buckwheat. We are getting ready to plant our buckwheat, but hot weather with no rain is predicted for sometime. Are we better off to wait and try to plant before a rain, or should we go ahead and plant ever thought no rain is predicted?
Hows it going...I've watched your channel for a yr now, 1st time commenting. When is best time to put in a water hole? We have bunch of ponds and creeks around do you think a water hole would even work?
Missouri minerals and mineral blocks are only prohibited during the hunting season due do being considered bait. Regular salt blocks aren't considered bait and can be used. I have a salt block in front of my trail cam and they've made it a very social spot for the herd and a regular pitstop
Does putting out protein help the overall health of the deer if done year round? Not meaning antler or weight just overall health.
Cool show brother I never have tried them before would you recommend any curtain one?? Like the ones that look like rocks or the powder one one of the other?
Trophy rock
No doubt, vitamins and minerals make for better overall health. That goes for any animal. They especially like them coming out of winter. I use a block for summer pictures. And I do tend to set up hunting spots near them as Im hunting in big woods with no AG.
Man, unfortunately no real study shows that in any way...but great trail cam locations and as a use for establishing patterns of use 👍
Now I do believe feeding deer minerals where they ingest quite a bit per day mixed with food can show benefit, but likely not near as much as folks believe.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 yea, even with humans, as long as your getting what you need from your food, suppliments are really overkill. Its kinda like you say about summer feeding. Why? they have plenty of natural food.
Using minerals is the most important thing you can do for deer health. Where people make the mistake is not putting the minerals where they need to be. The minerals need to be in their food plots soil in the form of fertilizer and ag-lime. Crops absorb the minerals and nutrients and pass it on to the deer . Lazy people try and short cut that and pouring out a pile of what is essentially a pile of salt with small amounts of the deer's essential minerals. The minerals need to be added through fertilization or already in the soil so the plants can give them minerals to deer.. If you want to help your bucks the most with minerals spread ag-lime or dolomite over your food plots. By doing that your adding 2 important nutrients to the deer Calcium and Magnesium. The rest of minerals/ nutrients deer need can be added to granular or liquid fertilizer . Great video!!!
I am sorry for saying lazy people because I don't know everybody's situation, but my point is the same.
@@jessemoore7696
No problem. I worked all my life so I can be lazy now.🤠👍
When you split your food plots in half are you doing it in length or width halves say 50 by 100
Thin plots, I believe he splits them length wise because that will establish a consistent pattern of movement regardless of the food source they are preferring
I was always under the impression minerals are more for does and fetal production and milk production.
Well ur impression is half right. Why would minerals only be good for does and not bucks? Think about it
Unrelated to minerals but how do you feel about using dyes when spraying to see your coverage? Do the deer care?
As long as it doesn't taste weird it's probably ok. Wouldnt make the dye be yellow or white tho
Jeff. If you had to choose one, which would you put your camera on? Mock scrape, or mineral lick? I am in Ohio, and use both. But only have 1 camera. So I have them together now. But you said to separate them. So I got to choose one or the other.
I guarantee you that his answer will be Mock scrape with licking vine. It will not disappoint!
Of I only had one spot in the Summer o would consider mineral of legal...but then narrow it down to your best mock scrape from September thru March.
I would still have a mock scrape at every stand location tho...
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 and I have 2 vertical mock scrapes like you do. I put them up for the first time ever last year. I was doubtful on them. But one gets used, one dont. So that makes it a simple choice. Thanks.
I used to have cams setup on mineral sites in OH, then started mock scrapes per the Jeff's method, Not one camera is on a mineral lick 3 years later.... It's amazing how that vine, in the right area of movement, will attract the deer to a 5' circle of dirt. Recommend watching his Mock Scrape playlist to ensure your setups are as strong as possible.
Sooo….. is it okay to put a mineral lick and a licking branch in same camera set up?
What minerals do you use if any
There is a lot of difference in minerals! Read the tag! A lot of so called deer minerals are all salt and flavoring, just think of them as bait. A good mineral with good trace minerals has to benefit herd health. I use it just for that reason. I’ve farmed for 50 years and had a lot of livestock and know the benefit of it to them. Has to be a correlation to wild animals imo. I think it can help them get through times of stress like drought and disease.
Gotta just laugh at most the "pro staff" guys trying to sell minerals as the golden ticket. They have one use for me in WV and Ohio and that is inventory.
Amen to that! Crazy what folks will pimp for free or reduced rate product that they don't believe in just to be able to say they are on a pro staff for XYZ company.
As far as being on a "pro staff", if you aren't being paid in cash and product...you aren't on a pro staff.
I think most people, unfortunately, think "pro staff" means professional staff, but it's promotional staff. A few years back I staffed for Mossy Oak and some other bigger names in the waterfowl industry.. I'd go to the sports shows to work a booth or whatever and you'd see all those "pro staff" guys just spewing BS about a product they knew didn't work.. it's crazy to see what folks will try to sell people..
I hunt Ohio and wv ( wood county wv/ Washington county OH)
@@kaydenmarshall2540 I live and hunt in Ohio. Guernsey and Noble counties. I want to start hunting WV but not sure were to start. Any public land recommendations?
Jeff, you need to stop being so practical and just drink the Kool-Aid...minerals grow monster bucks. 😂
I believe in Bronson Strickland's study at Mississippi State that showed its about nutrition, which leads perfectly into your food plot strategy to improve the soil while providing nutrition when its needed most.
Ha, thanks Paul 😁 Definitely nutrition...
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 I can tell you right now just minerals dont work. Ive hunted 350 piece of urban land going on 15 years. I bought into the mineral think for awhile. Then about 3 years ago Jeff answered my email and got me on the right track with good nutrition. Good greens, i have no agi fields in area so we use protein feed from feb to about the time bucks shed velvet. All my 120 bucks are 140s and i have pulled in some neighboring bucks. I still use minerals but good diet is key
Why do you say if deer use mineral/salt licks in summer they are not there in the fall?
Hi Rob! Because the vast majority of the time bucks live ina completely different location in the Summer Vs the Fall. Usually by over a mile.
Now there's a guy who claims that his mineral supplement, when fed to pregnant doe, will stimulate a significant percentage in antler growth in her buck fetus later in life. He did a study with farmed deer, so you know it's for real.
7:35 mark of this video. What the heck is on that bucks back?
The study you were referring to was done by Bronson Strickland, called “epigenetics” aka Fetal programming. You should look at it again because you’re wrong about the minerals and nutrients being offered to deer. The minerals are beneficial to deer for an extended time, at least (5) years to work into the herd, being generational. In areas where the soil offers nutrient, mineral sites are useless.
Wisconsins wildlife management team are worried about the wrong things
Mostly politically and $$$ motivated.
Wow! Someone actually telling it how it is and not selling out... I’ve been using mineral and attractants for years simply for inventory purposes. But you want to kill bigger bucks? Pass on 130” 3 year olds and find properties where big deer live. Don’t put out minerals...
Nobody is trying to jump 3 years. That's asinine you would even suggest that and honestly really devalues your intelligence in my eyes. Minerals absolutely do work. They do give you an extra 10-15" given the right supplementation. That's exactly why deer farms use it. Just like any animal giving the correct supplementation is a large factor in growth. And there are several areas all across the country that lack different nutrients that you can supplement with a mineral. You of all people should know hunting in the UP of Michigan that deer die every year to not having the correct supplementation or food. Really bad take here. Genetics, age, supplementation. That's what builds a big buck. Gaining a half of year of growth on a deer from having the correct food sources all year round is not a stretch and is possible and does happen.
Yea I agree that you can help maximize potential. Age, genetic makeup, & nutrition are HUGE factors. I hunt areas that need supplements, not sure which though. This guy is smart but I've heard others things from him to that are just opinion not fact. Experience for yourself is probably the most important. Things are not the same everywhere.
Joe Biden: l hope those deer won’t be wearing Kevlar vests
Waste of money
There’s a difference in a real hunter and hunters that bait to hunt
Actually someone who baits and hunts is still a hunter. Unfortunately folks like you, with your comments divide hunters and fragment us as hunters and make us weaker as a whole. I would argue that trying to tell a hunter they are not a hunter because they don't hunt like you, is the real problem with hunting. Real hunters stick together and don't cut one another down when they are using any legal means to hunt. Think about it...you are a part of the problem, not the solution.
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 thanks, well said.
That's kinda unfair. To imply someone is not a "real" whatever because they may be different than you or the law allows it to be different. Its not like you think anyway! The grass is always greener, right. Please tell us (just for a laugh) what a real hunter is?? What do you hunt? Where do you hunt? And ofcourse what do you hunt with?
@@whitetailhabitatsolutions9751 😉💯🌎🦌❤️👨🌾🎯 ..... 💯% Brother could not have said it better myself