salt licks in BC
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Best info i could find in Regs, page 96
Bait Stations
Bait stations are strategically placed baits used to attract animals,
particularly wolves and coyotes, to locations where they can be trapped.
They are often established a week or two prior to trapping at the site.
Bait stations may alter bear behaviour by potentially delaying the onset of
hibernation. Because of this, bait stations should only be set up after local
bears have begun hibernating. You are reminded that it is illegal to hunt a
bear by placing bait or using a dead animal or par of it as bait.
Im from Kitimat my self..... never really seen any one use licks, but it dont mean it isnt happening
Bait Stations
Bait stations are strategically placed baits used to attract animals,
particularly wolves and coyotes, to locations where they can be trapped.
They are often established a week or two prior to trapping at the site.
Bait stations may alter bear behaviour by potentially delaying the onset of
hibernation. Because of this, bait stations should only be set up after local
bears have begun hibernating. You are reminded that it is illegal to hunt a
bear by placing bait or using a dead animal or par of it as bait.
Im from Kitimat my self..... never really seen any one use licks, but it dont mean it isnt happening
heavyBullet
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- Location
- Just off the island of MTL
My buddy and I put out 3 blocks in the spring, and deer visit every one right up till Nov.
- Location
- interior b.c.
The ranchers around here have them all over the place for the cattle.
Yes, ranchers around here have salt blocks all over the place on the crown land they have the cattle on in the summer.
I have seen some deer tracks around them, but not really that many.
I thought the original post was about the natural mineral licks the wild animals find by themselves. These are often extensively used by wild animals. At one time the whole of BC was photographed from the air, from about 30,000 feet and prints of about 9 inches square, were available to the public. I have seen at least one, mineral lick used by moose, that was plainly visible on one of these printed photographs. It looked like a wheel, with spokes running out from it, but the 'spokes' were pathes the moose had made in coming and going from the lick. I have been to these well used ones and the moose pathes can easily be ten inches deep, in the clay leading to the lick.
I have tasted quite a few of these licks and none of them tasted like salt. That is why I refer to them as mineral licks. I spoke to a biologist about this and he confirmed they are minerals other than salt. He said animals know which minerals they are short of, at various seasons of the year, and these are the minerals in the licks they go to. This explains why the animals go to a lick at certain times of the year.
On a late August goat hunt, two of us watched from our little camp at timberline, and counted 31 mountain goats all at a mineral lick at the same time one evening, about a mile from us.
I have seen some deer tracks around them, but not really that many.
I thought the original post was about the natural mineral licks the wild animals find by themselves. These are often extensively used by wild animals. At one time the whole of BC was photographed from the air, from about 30,000 feet and prints of about 9 inches square, were available to the public. I have seen at least one, mineral lick used by moose, that was plainly visible on one of these printed photographs. It looked like a wheel, with spokes running out from it, but the 'spokes' were pathes the moose had made in coming and going from the lick. I have been to these well used ones and the moose pathes can easily be ten inches deep, in the clay leading to the lick.
I have tasted quite a few of these licks and none of them tasted like salt. That is why I refer to them as mineral licks. I spoke to a biologist about this and he confirmed they are minerals other than salt. He said animals know which minerals they are short of, at various seasons of the year, and these are the minerals in the licks they go to. This explains why the animals go to a lick at certain times of the year.
On a late August goat hunt, two of us watched from our little camp at timberline, and counted 31 mountain goats all at a mineral lick at the same time one evening, about a mile from us.
My buddy has a salt lick at his Cabin in the back yard.
The deer come all spring and summer and winter long, when it is hunting season they shy away.
We see does and young ones( no horns) in the morning and evening around dinner time.
The hole that they have dug and ate is/was three feet around and at least two feet deep.
your best bet was to set one up in the early spring and let mother nature run its course(rain) and eventually these critters will find it.
Have fun,
Rob
The deer come all spring and summer and winter long, when it is hunting season they shy away.
We see does and young ones( no horns) in the morning and evening around dinner time.
The hole that they have dug and ate is/was three feet around and at least two feet deep.
your best bet was to set one up in the early spring and let mother nature run its course(rain) and eventually these critters will find it.
Have fun,
Rob
