Trail Cam bait

[Hangfire]

This has probably been discussed before, but what are some of the best baits for animals?

Deer- I have been using apples and pumpkins
Coyotes- Red Fox urine.

Others?

[PolarBear]

Coyotes also like apples.  If you look close enough you can see one in his mouth.

[bow4elk]

Porcupines, coyotes, possums, and most wildlife love apples.  They are the best thing going, especially if you can find a loner tree in a thicket or something. I've tried some cob, mineral licks, etc and didn't have much luck.  The best bait I've found for natural movement patterns is simply watching specific trails over time.  Bait will get animals to come in but once the bait is gone, you aren't left with much more than a photo.  If you watch trails first to find natural movement patterns, then drop 3-6 apples along that trail, you get a win-win deal. 

[patton1]

I wondered the same thing when I first got out here (about deer atleast).  Back home it was shelled corn, sugar beets, carrots and of course apples. It's been hard to get my hands on any of that out where I am now.  I finally got a couple good sources for apples ( which the deer love).  I also got some wet cob (a mixture of cracked corn and molasses) from The Country Store.  They actually eat that before the apples now.  It sells for about $10 for a 50lb bag.  Nothing beats free apples though. Oh yeah, I also used pumpkins but they just rotted away.

[bow4elk]

I've tried carrots on deer but in three weeks I got two squirrels.  The deer literally walked over the carrots on a trial for three weeks and never once stopped to eat or sniff one.  I found that odd but I guess they do what they do, right?

[grousetracker]

i used one of those molasses blocks and couldnt keep the bears away long enough for any deer to use it.

[PolarBear]

I tried cob, deer blocks, buck jam, carrots, pumpkins, alfalfa and the only things these blacktails around my place will hit are apples, apple flavored mineral blocks, acorns and clover.  They turn their noses up at grain.

[klickriverchromer]

I have a lot of the apple flavored traced mineralized salt blocks.  You can get them in 4-50lb.bricks   Elk and Deer will eniliate them... 

[aer212]

I have a lot of the apple flavored traced mineralized salt blocks.  You can get them in 4-50lb.bricks   Elk and Deer will eniliate them... 

Where do you get these blocks from?

[STIKNSTRINGBOW]

 

[PolarBear]

Wholesale Sports and sometimes Cabela's has the little 5 pounders for cheap.  You might have to go to a feed store and order the 50 pounders.

[CastleRocker]

Apples seem to work best for everything.  "Pig-Out", molassis on alfalpha or wet-cob all seem to work to somewhat, and how well they work seems to depend on the weather.  Apples seem to work all the time.  I get the last four at the feed store, the Pigout online.

[lokidog]

Blacktails by my place eat "meat goat" pellets @ 16% protein, and "livestock" corn and pellets @ 14% protein, both from Dels.  The livestock is a bit cheaper.

I made a little feeder to keep the rain off (it's in my backyard) and had to use apples to entice them to use it to begin with.  I was able to see 11 deer from my bedroom window yesterday, though according to my camera, there seems to be only about 6 that feed regularly.  Saw a decent little island buck two nights ago for the first time.



We started supplementing their natural feed last year to help them out mid winter and spring as the winter natural forage here kind of sucks (salal mostly).

[PolarBear]

Wholy sheep *censored* batman that buck is a hog!!!
It is weird that some of you have luck with cob and grain and I can't get them to touch it, not even ground corn mixed with apples.  They pick the apples out and shove the corn aside.  They definately do not like Purina Deer Chow around here.  I bought a bunch of cob for my cows and the gal threw in a bag of deer chow.  I have 1/2 of a #50 bag on the ground that has turned to mush that only the birds pick out stuff from it.  I guess that we have so much good browse ( blackberries, baby alders, white and yellow clover, and oat grass that they don't like or have a need for anything else.   

[lewy]

I think you need to cut back on the grain, that buck is gunna pop!