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Big Game Hunting => Deer Hunting => Topic started by: BowForElk on March 15, 2013, 12:01:20 AM

Title: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: BowForElk on March 15, 2013, 12:01:20 AM: Was at Dels and saw that they had a Purina Deer Chow block. 30 lbs. Lots of protein, fat, salt, calcium.

Has anyone ever tried one of these? Do the deer like em better then a regular salt or mineral lick? It looked kind of yummy to me I figured it might be a hit!
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: PolarBear on March 15, 2013, 12:08:46 AM: My cows liked them but the blacktails around here wouldn't touch them no matter what time of year. They would eat grass and clover around the block and not give it a second look. It would probably do fine for whities, they will eat anything. They also wouldn't touch Purina Deer Chow in the pellet form. That got eaten by the squirrels.
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: BowForElk on March 15, 2013, 12:22:20 AM: Hmm thats really weird. I guess with the abundance of food on the westside they can snub their nose at stuff like that huh?
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: PolarBear on March 15, 2013, 12:28:35 AM: Yeah, I have tried everything from alfalfa, cob, cmeerdeer blocks, pellets etc and it all winds up being eaten by other critters. The deer around my place would rather eat berry vines, acorns, apples or clover over so called deer attractants. :dunno: Now at my buddy's place in Republic, I have seen whitetails chase off his chickens to eat the scratch that he just threw out for them. :chuckle:
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: mkcj on March 15, 2013, 12:41:59 AM: I go thru thousands of pounds of deer chow a year in Winthrop but at our grandparents house down by Belfair the deer won't eat it. Buy apples
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: Wanttohuntmore on March 15, 2013, 05:03:53 AM: I've tried everything on black tails, seems like apples are the only thing they will touch. Anything else?
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: adamR on March 15, 2013, 05:27:54 AM: where I feed the MULE deer as long as you brake it up they love it. if you leave the block whole they won't touch it so you have to brake it into small chunks. Apples are good to attract them but theres not much nutritional value there so you should attract them to a good food. I used to use purina deer chow blocks, surrounded by purina deer chow pellets mixed with whole corn and mixed in apples here and there.
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: huntnnw on March 17, 2013, 11:24:45 PM: I have had whiteys around here not touch those blocks
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: lokidog on March 18, 2013, 01:45:36 AM: Quote from: Wanttohuntmore on March 15, 2013, 05:03:53 AM
I've tried everything on black tails, seems like apples are the only thing they will touch. Anything else?

The deer here eat Dels Allstock, and Coastal's Livestock pellets. If I'm not getting any interest, I will bust up a couple of apples on it to get them there, they usually clean it up after that. They also eat pumpkins, beat greens, carrot tops, salal, cedar greens, and lots of other stuff, especially if I've left the greenhouse door open. >:(
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: Skyvalhunter on March 18, 2013, 05:24:30 AM: Dels does not do well in the weather it falls apart and clumps together in cold weather.
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: lokidog on March 18, 2013, 10:29:46 AM: Quote from: Skyvalhunter on March 18, 2013, 05:24:30 AM
Dels does not do well in the weather it falls apart and clumps together in cold weather.

Only if it gets wet. It doesn't last long enough here to get wet. :chuckle: I also have a feeder with a roof.
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: snowpack on March 18, 2013, 12:56:27 PM: Quote from: Skyvalhunter on March 18, 2013, 05:24:30 AM
Dels does not do well in the weather it falls apart and clumps together in cold weather.

I tried a few of the blocks and the blacktails wouldn't touch them. So they eventually got rained on and turned into a mush pile. My deer buffet consisted of 4 of those blocks, a few bags of corn, a few salt blocks and lots of apples. The only thing they touched were the apples.
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: h20hunter on March 18, 2013, 12:58:21 PM: If there are apples in the mix they won't touch anything else for me.
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: WSU on March 18, 2013, 01:31:36 PM: I'm going to try salt blocks this year for blacktails. I tried them last year, but I didn't get them out until after their horns were pretty much done growing. I'm hoping they use them this spring and summer.
Title: Re: Purina Deer Chow?
Post by: Hermannr on March 18, 2013, 04:30:01 PM: cull aples and alfalfa...guaranteed won't be there in the morning.