How Many Use Blocks to Feed Deer, Hogs or Exotics??

[Fishndude]

Im working on a little project and I'd like to know if you use them and if you do, what are your complaints???

I have found a Purina block that the hogs just love(thanks Cuz!). Problem is, they roll it around like a ball and it ends up in a puddle, in the woods or in the river.

So, who uses them and if you have a complaint, what is it??

Disclaimer: "They don't eat it" isn't a valid complaint!!!.

This is the block the hogs LOVE!!

[Codie]

My only complaint when I used them once was that they did not last long enough and that the animals could roll them and flip them to whereever they wanted them. I think I would buy one of the block feeders if I ever used them again

[Txjourneyman]

Jeff you need to spend more time down there. Two playing soccer, one napping...things are getting WAAAYYYY too relaxed!

[manwitaplan]

Have not tried them, but seems like a good idea.

Did you know you have a dead hog under your feeder?

[Fishndude]

Jeff you need to spend more time down there. Two playing soccer, one napping...things are getting WAAAYYYY too relaxed!

Lol! It's a set up for mass mayhem!!

[slayer]

That pig taking a nap is hilarious, I've used them, same complaint, they roll them over and they either break or they go through them in a couple nights. I tried staking them to the ground, they broke them off the stake. Need some kind of holder to keep them in place.

[Smart]

Did you lace that that block with flybait?...

We use them and they got hammered this season. They seemed to be hit if a deer showed up with no corn on the ground like at night or midday per the trail cams.....but I never saw them being eaten while on stand.

I'd like to put out some good mineral blocks this year....not just the food blocks. I just don't have any evidence of them using the apple flavored ones I bought from Academy. Seems the rain just melted what is gone from them.

[2050z]

I used the purina block this year, but did not leave it on the ground. I got pictures of deer, squirrels, and raccoons feeding off of it.

[Death from Above]

I ain't feeding no stinkIng pig anything but lead

[BigPigSticker]

I used a pole bit (drill bits used to drill through telephone poles) to drill a hole right down the middle then i set it over a piece of rebar than I have driven in the ground. It seems to work well.

[U.S.ArmyRetired]

I have wanted to use blocks for deer during the Spring & Summer. The last block I tried was a livestock block from Tractor Supply. I bought the livestock block because it was cheaper than the wildlife blocks. I put these out last Summer and they are still lying there. Nothing has touched them.

[D C]

Dig a hole and put it in the ground.

I like the rebar trick above too.

[Dr. D]

We drill holes in them and hang them about 2 feet of the ground.

[Bisch]

I don't use them currently but have in the past. All feed blocks are not created equal! The deer would tear up one brand that I was buying at the local feed store. The feed store was closed one day so I bought a different brand at Tractor Supply. It sat there and they would not touch it. After a couple weeks I went back to the feed store and got the other brand and guess what, they started tearing it up again. I won't use them where there are pigs (my current lease) because the pigs will roll it off where you cannot even find it.

Bisch

[OPC Patrick]

I have always put them in an old tire I have put up the salt block holders made for horses on a tree and put a block in there and the deer would lick it, but it wasn't a major draw to them, the corn was.