deer baits,what you using?

I did a test last night, put out some apples, a jack-o-lantern, some potato peels, and some carrot tops.

Saw 9 deer in the vicinity, the apples are gone, everything else is still there, the jack-o-lantern was tipped over but doesn't even look like a bit was taken.
 
I'm in the Orillia On. area. I'm surrounded by farm land and am south and west of Queen Elizibeth Wild Lands Park.
Over the past 3 weeks, I've put out 250 lb. of #2 carrots in five separate areas of my property. Also whole corn and molasses.
The cameras and the scat show coyotes eating the carrots not the deer. Pics show deer, bears, bluejays and chipmunks eating the corn. Some of the bear scat has carrot in it.
Yesterday, upon inspection of the sites, I found most of the carrots I put out last week were still there. I restocked everything and added 20 cups of grape jello.
I'll see next week how that goes.
 
I'm now on day 3 of the Great Grape Jello experiment of 2017. So far; nothing, nothing has so
much as sniffed it. They're eatting the oats and hammering the peas though. -20C this morning. Basically a sport for lunatics.
 
Dogleg said:
I'm now on day 3 of the Great Grape Jello experiment of 2017. So far; nothing, nothing has so
much as sniffed it. They're eatting the oats and hammering the peas though. -20C this morning. Basically a sport for lunatics.
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Im surprised. My grape jello trick has worked everywhere I hunted in Quebec and Ontario. Especially on humid days ot seems the smell just hangs in the air and travels far. I kick up the ground a fair bit and sprinkle it in or I mix it in with salt. I guess it isn't magic everywhere.
Where are you hunting if I may ask?
 
GOUMFACH said:
Im surprised. My grape jello trick has worked everywhere I hunted in Quebec and Ontario. Especially on humid days ot seems the smell just hangs in the air and travels far. I kick up the ground a fair bit and sprinkle it in or I mix it in with salt. I guess it isn't magic everywhere.
Where are you hunting if I may ask?
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To be clear, are you making Jello and putting it out as bait or are you sprinkling Jello powder around?
 
Dogleg said:
I'm now on day 3 of the Great Grape Jello experiment of 2017. So far; nothing, nothing has so
much as sniffed it. They're eatting the oats and hammering the peas though. -20C this morning. Basically a sport for lunatics.
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i concur sir
i sat out very patiently sat and sunday afternoon waiting for deer,froze my gnonads off
didnt see didly jack

i put 100lb of fava beans out and moose were eating them FYI

i now have oats,fava and soya beans out.
 
Pete04 said:
To be clear, are you making Jello and putting it out as bait or are you sprinkling Jello powder around?
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I guess I should have been more clear. I simply use the powder. I get a bunch of boxes and mix it with the corn in my feeders or i mix the powder with salt and pour on a stump or mound ,etc. On damp mornings the smell wafts through the air and around here the deer just swarm in. I got the idea from some mineral scent stuff I bought in sale at CT. The smell reminded me of jello. I think cool aid would work as well.
 
The deer around here are sure picky...Never touched the gardens all summer and fall but now that there is 6 inches of snow on the ground and the mercury has plunged the does have been in the gardens all night and well into dawn...They are still picky cleaning up the carrots and beets before the kale and chard...They even seem to have a preference which variety of kale they ate first...They clean up any spilt grain anytime.
 
i have 3 bait spots going

No1 completely cleaned out of soya beans and fava beans
No2 see No1
No3 see No2

every spot the deer have cleaned up.i threw down 100lb soya and 100lb fava saturday
went back yesterday and nowt,nothing bare arsed ground
 
Well, I am of the theory that whatever is native to the area and common in the farm land is what they like the best , simple thing is you are giving them what they already know , just easier to get at and concentrated amounts.

In central Sask it is barley, peas, potash and grass!

So, my bait is a mix of barley and peas and coarse salt , along with an alfalfa bale, the salt dissolves into the ground and that keeps then interested long after the grain is gone.An auto dispenser also help meter it and makes a nice dust cloud of grain smell when it turns on.

But one problem, this combo works on everything BUT 170+ class bucks, apparently they have a different palate. :mad::redface::(
 
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