Bury them to ground level to make them last longer. And also to create a salty earth they’ll return to for trace minerals/salt when the block eventually melts from rain.
For a good salt lick, find a poorly tree with a trunk about 18″ around and cut it off at about 6′ above the ground with a horizontal cut. Strip the bark from the standing stump and nail or screw your mineral block to the top of the stump. The block will be above where deer can easily reach to gnaw at it, but the rain will wash salt down along the smooth surface of the stump, keeping them interested. The stump needs to be substantial enough that the deer can’t knock it over, which is why a rooted stump is better than a wooden post.
Mmmm, backstrap! Can’t tell the closest one, but those two bulls in the back are looking healthy.
Time for some mineral blocks…
Yup…I was thinking the same.
Bury them to ground level to make them last longer. And also to create a salty earth they’ll return to for trace minerals/salt when the block eventually melts from rain.
Elk can sometimes chew flagging right off trees or monuments. Something must be tasty in the formula or they just want to taste test something new.
For a good salt lick, find a poorly tree with a trunk about 18″ around and cut it off at about 6′ above the ground with a horizontal cut. Strip the bark from the standing stump and nail or screw your mineral block to the top of the stump. The block will be above where deer can easily reach to gnaw at it, but the rain will wash salt down along the smooth surface of the stump, keeping them interested. The stump needs to be substantial enough that the deer can’t knock it over, which is why a rooted stump is better than a wooden post.