Deer attractant recipes

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For you guys that make your own deer attractant, what do you mix? I have used Primo's Donkey Juice in the past and it has always worked well at bringing them into the feed piles, it had a strong smell. I recently came into possession of 30 gallons of barley malt extract, it has a molasses scent to it, and thought it might make for a good deer attractant. I figured I would try mixing some stuff up and testing it throughout the summer at out cottage, there are quite a few deer around, and see how well it works... Any ideas?

Edit: I want to use the barley malt extract as the base ingredient. Wondering what to add, how to prep it...
 
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Apples work. Might have to run a wire thru them so the squirels dont steal them. Then you can be entertained watching the squirrel try and take it
 
Peanut butter works ... once the deer figure it out. I also like to spray vanilla extract on whatever I put out. Unfortunately, if it works well on deer it works better on raccoons and bears. Nowadays, I limit myself to spraying grape cool-aid around my salt lick (located at Salt Lick City.) (yuk, yuk)
 
There is a video on youtube by NBWildman for a deer attractant he uses, it contained kool aide, salt, a magnesium (or manganese?) / calcium supplement for a farm supply store, and another couple of ingrenients. I think just about anything that is sweet or salty will attract deer, some people will add calcium and other minerals if they are trying to provide something to grow bigger antlers.
 
Al Bear said:
Peanut butter works ... once the deer figure it out. I also like to spray vanilla extract on whatever I put out. Unfortunately, if it works well on deer it works better on raccoons and bears. Nowadays, I limit myself to spraying grape cool-aid around my salt lick (located at Salt Lick City.) (yuk, yuk)
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I have heard if you hang a plastic peanut butter jar upside down its also entertaining to watch them lick it. I heard they have long tongues lol
 
If you're going the diy route, I would toss some apple juice into the mix. I like thr 50lb blocks you can get at CT, the ones with apple flavoring. I broke the last one into 8 pieces and they last a looooong time on a stump. Going on 2 years now and I have 3 pieces left from that block. I check every week and there is always fresh tracks. The deer loved those small apple flavored blocks made by Primos but they don't last near as long and get pricey in a hurry.
 
I made some homemade candy licks for spring bear 2022 and the first visitor to the site was a cow moose to hit the lick. Luckily walked right past the bait barrels and ground covered in grease on the way out. Left a grease trail heading into the bush and my first bear was on site about 45min later.

Think it was just sugar, corn syrup, and whatever add ins like koolaid for flavours or smell boiled until rock hard and poured into whatever you’re using. A 4” dia pipe 6-8” with plate and anchor bolt welded to bottom might be about perfect. Screw it into a tree type of idea.

Might have to revisit this for fall and do some experimentation. The bears didn’t seem to care for it, but the bait barrel never got low/empty.
 
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