Washing Soda (sodium carbonate) for Mineral Site

[TXBRASS]

Talked to a guy a while back who owns a ranch out west. He said that he has always ran a few mineral sites for the deer on his place where he would pour mineral and feed salt on the ground and the deer would eat and lick the ground as needed. He said that he learned that if you pour Washing Soda (sodium carbonate) on the ground on top of the mineral and salt that the deer would destroy the area and within a short amount of time would have a large sunken area from eating all the mineral and dirt from that spot. He said not to confuse the Washing Soda (sodium carbonate) with Baking Soda (sodium bi-carbonate) which is a totally different thing.

Anyone here ever use this or hear of it.

He stated that deer consume so much more when Ehe Washing Soda was added.

Considering adding it to my mineral sites....

[TXBRASS]

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[Bryan2014]

Can't say that I have heard of this but it would be interesting to experiment with

[dawgkllr]

I don't know about that but their coat will be shiney and clean!

[TXBRASS]

Supposedly it's the main ingredient of "Deer Cocaine".... I haven't confirmed that though...

[Mike Fangman]

You might go ahead and ad a toothbrush, deodorant and some hand sanitizer, so they can feel really fresh.

But who knows, it could work.

[Huntindad]

There was a recipe for home made salt/mineral blocks and i think this was a key ingredient

[HogHunter34]

There was a recipe for home made salt/mineral blocks and i think this was a key ingredient

X2 I’ve seen the same but never tried it. Who knows. Cheap enough to give it a go without any harm done

[Hoss163]

Calling AC on this one where is he at ?

[TXBRASS]

I currently have a directional feeder that sprays a line of corn over my mineral site daily. I feel that forces them to at least get a small amount of it on a regular basis. They also lick my trophy rocks slick, but there’s not a whole lot more than just salt in them. Like said above, it’s cheap enough to give it a try and see what happens. I’ve been pouring mineral and salt in the same spot now for a few years every other month so I know that ground has to be packed with mineral.


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[texansfan]

I'm going to try this
I normally would leave one trophy brick and they'd demolish those quickly but they're $10 each so last month I decided to just dump a $6 bag of 40lbs of pool salt down.
Don't know how they've taken to it as I haven't checked the cards since

But I want to do the trinity of
Pool Salt
Mineral Salt
Disodium Phosphate

Maybe I can do
Pool Salt
Washing soda
One pack strawberry jello

And that'll keep me under $10 and still bring em in


I don't feed em
I only provide minerals (hogs, coons and ants steal their corn but none of them want salt)

[wade]

It works great , we’ve used it for years both here in Texas and Kansas ,, dicalcium phosphate is the. Main ingredients.

[quarterback]

Don't see why it wouldn't work. I use rock salt mixed with various other goodies and they will dig a big hole around the site. The salt permeates the ground around it and they come back to lick the dirt after the salt/goodies are gone. Works for a long time.

Good luck and let us know how it works out for you. Post up before and after pics if possible.

[texansfan]

Grabbed a box to see how it'll do

[Huntindad]

It works great , we’ve used it for years both here in Texas and Kansas ,, dicalcium phosphate is the. Main ingredients.

that may have been what I was thinking of.

Where I have put out salt blocks...after they have been gone, the deer still lick the ground.