Deer attractor that works?

braggscowboy · #1 02/08/10, 10:36 PM

Has anyone used any of the off the shelf deer attractor that works? I have never used anything before this year and I bought some for my grandson to try. I think it is called Deer Caine? Anyway, we put it out the way the directions said to do and did the follow up with the block, and guess what, you can see where the deer will walk by and never touch it. They are suppose to dig at and have fits and run circles and jump through hoops to get to it. (may even be dangerous to even be in the vicinity) when they come by. I can't tell that they have even sniffed it. I keep out salt for the horses and I see deer using it pretty often, more so, seems like in the summer than winter months. I am wondering if any of you know for sure something works for you? Thanks

Katey · #2 02/08/10, 10:43 PM

Rosebushes.

EDDIE BUCK · #3 02/08/10, 10:44 PM

I've tried different scents and lures,not a lot of action,but shelled corn works 100% of the time.Might take them three or four nights to find it,but when they do,hunting is no longer boring.If its legal in your state,it is here.

big rockpile · #4 02/08/10, 10:48 PM

50# Stock salt and a Box of Arm & Hammer Washing Soda.Put in a hole,cover with little dirt,then pour Bucket of water over it.

Refresh in 6 months.

big rockpile

braggscowboy · #5 02/09/10, 12:18 AM

Yes, corn works, any pretty flowers (but not in winter) Rockpile what does the baking soda have that they like? The use my salt for the horses, as I said, but it is not buried, nor have I ever used the baking soda. Will try it if you say that it works. What is the advantage of the salt in the ground and not on top? More natural salt lick? This Deer Cain is in the ground and did nothing. Thanks!

Bearfootfarm · #6 02/09/10, 12:45 AM

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This Deer Cain is in the ground and did nothing. Thanks!

Deer Cain is mostly sugar

WolfWalksSoftly · #7 02/09/10, 04:01 AM

I have found just planting a garden does the trick, especially if you put a lot of work to it.

Betty Jean · #8 02/09/10, 04:45 AM

Young fruit trees. The branches and bark are irresistible. You will soon see only a stick in the ground.

Wisconsin Ann · #9 02/09/10, 05:36 AM

An open bale of hay in the winter around here works wonders

Also a big pan of corn. (or just about any grain if it's been really snowy)

During the summer...a patch of greens, and as was mentioned, rose bushes. They LOVED my rose bushes last year. Would walk right by the annual flowers, walked thru the patch of peppers and lettuce and peas and head STRAIGHT for the roses. Now...we have wild roses EVERYWHERE at the edges of fields. Do they eat those? no.

The rabbits like my climbing and tea roses, too.

TnAndy · #10 02/09/10, 05:57 AM

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Originally Posted by WolfWalksSoftly

I have found just planting a garden does the trick, especially if you put a lot of work to it.

Quoted for truth. I had to build a 6' high fence with electric wire another foot above that to keep them out. Why anyone would want to encourage them is beyond me......

Stephen in SOKY · #11 02/09/10, 09:11 AM

Big Rockpiles recipe works great, but I found it works better the second year & beyond. I saw no action around it at all for a few months, then they started using it daily.

Bearfootfarm · #12 02/09/10, 09:43 AM

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I saw no action around it at all for a few months, then they started using it daily.

It often takes them quite a while to realize that something new is food.

hillbillly · #13 02/09/10, 10:22 AM

you bury the salt to preserve it from rain longer

suitcase_sally · #14 02/09/10, 10:36 AM

My car.

Cascade Failure · #15 02/09/10, 10:53 AM

Hosta and a salt lick....

ArmyDoc · #16 02/09/10, 11:26 AM

any plant you DON't want them to eat....

ronbre · #17 02/09/10, 11:40 AM

whole kernal corn...you really aren't supposed to feed the deer, but we had a starving scrawny deer here and started giving her a little corn..now she brings some friends..but mostly we just hav eit for her..nose to nose feeding isn't good as it spreads diseases..so we try to avoid any PILES..we just scatter the corn when she is here..she will walk up and wait for us to put it out for her, and then eat it all up and ask for more..(the stare)..not eating out of our hand yet..but two years of eating when we feed her..

by the way they rarely ever bothers the garden

Little Quacker in OR · #18 02/09/10, 11:44 AM

This cracked me up Ann! Not to hijack the thread....

..LOL, but I have deer everywhere and wild and feral roses too. I pick out all the roses that are found out in the wild here (including the feral ones leftover at old homesteads, other flowers at those old abandoned places too), take clippings from them along with many kinds of climbing roses that the deer leave alone, and that is what I plant for roses! I have beautiful roses every year, they are not bothered at all by deer. LOL I also grow a lot of wild and feral flowers here of other species and of course, they are not bothered by deer either. There's a lot of beautiful flowers and herbs we CAN grow!

No spraying and all that to kill off the bees or building big fences and or harming other good pollinators.

I Love climbers a lot and have many old heritage rose climbers here, some brought over from France and other parts of Europe in the late 1800's. Deer leave them alone. If we just change our focus a bit we can have beautiful flowers and deer too without any worries.

LQ

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Originally Posted by Wisconsin Ann

An open bale of hay in the winter around here works wonders

Also a big pan of corn. (or just about any grain if it's been really snowy)

During the summer...a patch of greens, and as was mentioned, rose bushes. They LOVED my rose bushes last year. Would walk right by the annual flowers, walked thru the patch of peppers and lettuce and peas and head STRAIGHT for the roses. Now...we have wild roses EVERYWHERE at the edges of fields. Do they eat those? no.

The rabbits like my climbing and tea roses, too.

Tim_H · #19 02/09/10, 11:50 AM

Corn oil poured on an old stump works well also.

big rockpile · #20 02/09/10, 12:45 PM

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Originally Posted by braggscowboy

Yes, corn works, any pretty flowers (but not in winter) Rockpile what does the baking soda have that they like? The use my salt for the horses, as I said, but it is not buried, nor have I ever used the baking soda. Will try it if you say that it works. What is the advantage of the salt in the ground and not on top? More natural salt lick? This Deer Cain is in the ground and did nothing. Thanks!

Its not Baking Soda its Washing Soda.Don't know what it has but Deer Love it.

Corn works but if you have Turkeys around more than likely you can't afford to keep up with them.

big rockpile