Twenty five years ago i watched a documentary about the life of a deer and they were up north and the deer were getting killed by cars because they would salt the road for snow so the deer would eat the dart on the side of the roads and get hit by cars. it also showed deer licking the salt off the side of parked cars. thats when a light went off in my head. at the time hunters were not using salt and minerals much so i went to a feed store and got some bags of salt with minerals put it out and the deer would eat the dart and the minerals and make a big hole in the ground. i thought it may have been a factor why the deer up north grew larger racks. i also used lucky buck about twelve years ago and had a lot of lock with it.

I love to just watch nature probably as much as hunting

Garlic powder for ticks, and sweetlix livestock mineral offers a block with fly prevention in it

Appreciate the video. I hang a Rescue disposable fly trap at all my mineral sites to help with the deer flies. They will fill up so I will go and swap them out every few weeks. They are $6 at tractor supply.

Something I have done in my yard for mosquitoes is Termidor SC or the off brand Taurus SC. Put it in a backpack spray with water and spray all over the vegetation around the area you want to minimize mosquitos. The main ingredient is Fipronil which attacks the nervous system of insects. I think when the mosquitos land on the vegetation to rest it kills them. I don’t know for sure, but it seems to help.

Dung Beetles rolling a turd! I don't think they're gonna smoke it though. 😁

Those are dung beetles and that was dung they were rolling. They feed on the dung!!

Brothers got a spot thats a huge natural mineral site. He gets good deer on camera there seems to start drying up october ish.

Awesome video, good sort video of thar buck

My buddy in ohio runs giants gravity feeders year round. With a corn soybean molasses mixture that also has garlic and fish oil in it. He says the garlic and fish oil helps keeps the ticks and deer flies off the deer. Pretty expensive method but he swears by it.

I put out some Purina antler max mineral today on a mineral lick they’ve been hitting, my first time trying it hopefully it’ll draw them in.

That mixture works like a charm•

About helping control the insects if the animals get the correct amount of trace minerals will help but remember Mother Nature is the best help there is. We have a friend that’s been making his own mix for many years and my cousin started using it 30 years ago in one spot but hasn’t added to it for 8 years the hole just holds too much water and all the trees below it died and the deer and other animals still use it. As far as that natural mineral site there’s one on one of the farms that’s been there as long as I can remember in a open field that’s steep and it doesn’t get washed out below it very far but everything licks from it but not a bunch, so that my take on minerals I’m no expert just been hunting a few properties 47 years ✌🏻👍🇺🇸 oh CWD Missouri needs to figure out why they don’t want anymore deer hunters 😤

Lucky Buck the best

That trophy Rock supposed to help keep them away

Those beetles are DUNG BEETLES they are mainly in sandy warmer climates... like Africa where they originally come from

Test it for CWD

Apple flavored corn works great aswell

I have put ivermectren on corn I have a barrel feeder . I've use goat wormer too.

I have a well-established mineral site in my backyard Makes for great summer interactions Rabbit, woodchuck and mourning doves seem to love them too. I think that was a dung beetle rolling a ball of "manure". I think they dig a burrow and put the dung ball in the hole and lay an egg/eggs in it.

For my summer mix I like to mix 50lb of trace salt, 50lb of trace salt with selenium, 50lb of dicalcium phosphate, 2% by weight of diatomaceous earth, and enough sunflower oil to kill the dust. I typically dump everything in a cement mixer and let it go. I’ve been adding the diatomaceous earth for a couple years now and it’s seems to really help with ticks and deer fleas.

That is a natural salt lick, never seen one that I can remember but my dad told of one that was so deep you could walk up on a deer feeding in it

Similar mix. I add anilogics for the essential oils they add.

Turd roller beetles

You should get a small soil sample of that 4th site and send it to be tested. It would be nice to know what's in the soil they're liking so much.

Enjoy your mineral sites while it lasts....here in my area of MN... they're illegal...CWD and the DNR have put them to an end😢... can't even use scents...

dung beetle

Have you thought about the sack hanging for cattle? Here in sc deer bed in cotton after its sprayed for just that reason.

Have hogs been attracted to your mineral licks? It has been a long time since I did a mineral lick, but we have a few that we established years ago that deer still come to. My dad will refresh them from time to time because they are close to his house, but I don’t think he did anything this year.

Hi Jeremy watch all your stuff . Thinking about trying tooth of the arrow broad heads was wondering which on you recomend

Do you have pig problems with your mineral sites?

Do you have a tractor supply close? I do near me and go in there for stuff

I have noticed bucks are holding onto their antlers later in ms .is it a normal thing because I’ve been noticing this the last three years

Do hogs get on those feed sites or are you lucky and don’t have them around?

What is livestock mineral??

If you look up the ingredients, it’s all just salt, you the the same results by pouring out table or rock salt, and it’s much cheaper.. if you don’t belive me look up the ingredients.

Dung beetles are rare to see. Pretty cool except they eat shit!

Im happy turkey is about over,i don't watch it