I will make this up. Minus the oil and corn syrup. The sugar and molasses and some water should be good enough of a binder. I like that you are helping the deer out during the winter. It is hit or miss with acorns each season, so a little extra is great. Come hunting season you boys send me a nice tenderloin off of the deer you get! Lol.
You can bye a electric cement mixer for 200.00 and a lot less, dry mix every thing then add your vegetable oil. Let it mix real well then add syrup. And you can set a burner under it on low while it mixes to heat it up, I have seen trappers doing this with dirt and flake wax, to make freeze proof dirt. It would be faster.
Great info guys! You remind me a whole lot of me and my buddies in our Jr High/High school years in Arkansas back in the 80’s. Do what’s needed to bring in the deer! If the does continue to have access to this through post rut and early spring….it would help them when they need it most! Keep up the good work and best of luck!
Wondefully informative guys. I would get that mixed at your local co-op (molassas, corn & oats) grab a cement mixer & add it all together & let the machine do your work. You could crank them out faster. We live in very sandy area where the minerals all leavh out quickly so we are constantly putting out mineral blocks. Im going to try your method going into winter & see how they look coming out in the spring. Nice job
I think I'd have me a drill with a big paddle bit or something or like one of those 30 inch steel ribbon ball mixing arms that goes in a drill that they use for plaster and mud. They only cost like $17 if you have a drill. It would cut your time in half. Sounds like y'all have these deer addicted to your blocks, good job.
How about you just leave it in the bucket and mix it with a drill with a paint or morter mixer in it and scoop it in .. Sure seams easier.... Great content guys !! .
Saw your video, thought it was great! We would like to make this, but what is the size of your cups you are using when you are getting stuff out of the big bags. They look pretty big and we would like to get it right. Thanks
Great video guys. This is a good mix for Midwest hunters as you guys don't have fire ants. We mix salt in our blocks to keep the Fire Ants out. Happy Hunting -ACE Basin Custom Calls Outdoors
Great video guys. You are young and experimenting doing stuff like that, that's excllent. I wonder if you ever took the time to calculate the real price it comes down to for making one block(ingridients, electricity, time, etc). When you get older with more responsabilities and less time, you might just go to the store and pay a little extra to have done by someone else.;-) But thanks for taking the time to share that guys, keep the passion ;-)
Great video fellas thanks for sharing. I have always wondered how those blocks were made. I am going to have to try this for the deer here on my hunting property here in West Virginia. I subscribed to your channel definitely will be watching more of your all’s videos.
You guys have a great channel. Keep on keeping on! Looks like fun for sure, but I'm wondering what the cost is compared to a commerically produced block?
“Bushwacker” from Moncks Corner SC.: I enjoyed this video and will definitely be giving this mixture a try. I believe I may add a bit of vanilla to it as I understand that deer love the taste of vanilla.
You should find a used concrete mixer to mix everything then you can dump it all in at once and let it go. Then to clean you dump hot water in let spin and dump it. Easy clean up. Tamp it down easier by greasing up outside of a second bucket filled half way or full of rocks then fill the buckets with rocks and let them sit the 2 days with the bucket in it.. Use to do same things years back.
I like added apple crush and a cup of salt to mine when i make em also i use another bucket to pack it thwn when its packed i keep the a bucket in it and use a ratchet strap to compact it even more..48 hrs later hard as a rock
I would suggest a square bucket. The deer push my square blocks out of camera range when they get small. I can just imagine what they would do to a round one.
I just put a bag of Horse / Cow Sweet Feed in a hydraulic Press and create the block inside of a section of steel pipe with a steel top plate to press it down. Then just push the feed block out of the pipe. It's a lot easier and cheaper. The bags of feed are already made and mixed together... By the time you guys get done mixing and baking, you've spent more than the block costs at the store.
As you noted about two weeks. I've see corn rain on mold start to spoil Will look on comments See if any feed backs how it holds up in winter rain. commercial grade feed blocks Fall apart too with rain issues. Just looks pack down harder to me . Got me thinking ever try cooling those two days or three With heavy weight I get tamping down . Mixing plays a part in bonding in to large granola bar
When you compact the block in the bucket would be a good time to include some type of anchor in case you have trouble with the blocks being rolled out of the camera view or rolled out of your shooting lane.
You guys could save a lot of time and money by just going to your local feed supplier and getting a 500lb bag of three way base custom mixed. Specify how much dry molasses and mineral you want mixed into it and then go pick up your bag of feed already all mixed up. Most rural feed suppliers routinely make custom mixes for clients. Because it is in bulk it saves you way more than buying 50lb sacks of separate ingredients. The sacks hold 1,500lbs of feed so if you start with 500lbs of three way as your base your mineral and dry molasses won't put you over what a bulk feed bag will hold.
That was interesting. Thanks. I wondered, though,- what keeps the deer from coming & eating the food out of the bucket during those 2 days it's outside curing? I didn't see you put a lid on it.
3 questions for ya: 1. Do have to bake the mixture... have u ever tried it with out baking? 2. How does the round slide out of the 5 gallon bucket so easy? 3. What is the link for pictures of bucks eating your feeder rounds? Thx, trying to learn, DS
Any concerns about CWD grouping deer around a single source like that? Not judging just curious if you guys have thought about that since the video is a couple years old now and we know a lot more about CWD. Great video.
We typically only put these blocks out during the months just following deer season. When food supplies are low for the deer heard. The blocks work just as well in summer if packed well. I would suggest going heavy on the corn syrup if conditions are warmer.
Yes that would work too! Getting a large barrel or heavy duty plastic tub works just as good. These smaller blocks are a little bit easier to pack and a bit more mobile, but don’t last as long as a large licking tub.
@@jtoutdoors8896 I live in an urban environment I don't have a feed mill. I usually order my oats from Amazon, but they charge too much $$$ for a 5 lbs bag. I need that big bag in your video.
@@BeyondUnknown00 have you looked around for a feed store ( co op ,tractor supply, stockdale, ) ? It would probably surprise you how close one was or at the most it would make for a nice Saturday morning drive...and if you call one and they claim to not have a ingredient ask them to order it...be safe
Great video guys keep it coming I've used similar feed blocks that I've made I recommend adding cinnamon the generic works just fine and brown sugar brown sugar helps also in keeping it all together I put my feed block in a laundry bag and keep it off the ground so how's won't get to it but just high enough for deer good luck guys
Hey guys awesome video and excellent presentation. We need more YOUNG MEN like yourself out Experiencing the Great Outdoors that GOD Created for us. Yall could probably make some money making and Selling those Food Blocks. Approximately how much does each block weigh and how much do you think it cost to make one block? Keep up the awesome videos guys. I subscribed and followed yall.
Find you some aluminum pots the size of the blocks, mix, bake and cure in the pots, take to where you want them and dump out the block, it would be way more efficient.
Just uploaded a list of ingredients and utensils in the description of the video! Amount of ingredients is going to depend on how big and how many blocks you make. SiX blocks were made out of the amount of ingredients in the video. Thanks for watching!
Don’t know if it will help for time when you’re draining the corn syrup out of the bottle pour your vegetable oil in the corn syrup bottle shake it all around so you don’t have to wait for it to drain
I do the same thing these 2 young men do and it works well! You can get the molasses on Amazon or tractor supply or southern states or fcx supplier! It's a 50lb bag
I can't do that where I live . Big trouble . Homeowners can't even feed the deer in the dead of winter in NY. I've seen so many instances where wildlife management hurts the wildlife more than helping it.
Here at J&T Outdoors we try to have the healthiest deer heard we can. We believe trophy rocks help us do that. We also recognize that many states prohibit mineral rocks due to CWD. Fortunately for us, we haven’t seen any cases in our counties.
I personally feed my deer year round not just the season helps with fawns and antler grown and all around health of all the animals that eat what I feed. When I 1st got my property it had minimal deer just traveling past. Now I been feeding deer have moved in and residents of my property. The bucks don't wander to far as I have watched them grow from fawns . The population has grown very very good and an lucky that we are allowed 12 deer a year since I have created a monster lol to many critters
Tell the NY game wardens there not deer blocks there for the birds they are bird feeders wich isn't illegal and watch those big antler having birds come right in NY as a big problem with to many deers in certian parts why pay snipers and stupid neutering to try and cull herds when hunters are way more effective and cost way less actually they spend money that goes back to conservationist thru the Pittman Robertson act
Thanks gentlemen, very nifty way to make feed blocks
Thanks for watching!
I will make this up. Minus the oil and corn syrup. The sugar and molasses and some water should be good enough of a binder. I like that you are helping the deer out during the winter. It is hit or miss with acorns each season, so a little extra is great. Come hunting season you boys send me a nice tenderloin off of the deer you get! Lol.
Great video guys. I'm definitely going to make this. Thanks for sharing.
Great video guys ! You did an awesome job explaining everything thanks for sharing
great Video ,it's like watching to a cooking show ,good Job Boy's .
I can remember going to bomgaars in the late 60's and early 70's with my grandparents to get farm and hardware supplies in Norfolk Nebraska
A drill with a paint stir attached to it really mix’s everything up really well.
Great video with very clear instructions! I'm gonna give it a try with premixed sweet feed then add to it. Thank You!
You can bye a electric cement mixer for 200.00 and a lot less, dry mix every thing then add your vegetable oil. Let it mix real well then add syrup. And you can set a burner under it on low while it mixes to heat it up, I have seen trappers doing this with dirt and flake wax, to make freeze proof dirt. It would be faster.
That's what I have been doing for years,the heating part is trial&error until you find what works for you.
Great info guys! You remind me a whole lot of me and my buddies in our Jr High/High school years in Arkansas back in the 80’s. Do what’s needed to bring in the deer! If the does continue to have access to this through post rut and early spring….it would help them when they need it most! Keep up the good work and best of luck!
Thanks for sharing guys.... Awesome idea!
Wondefully informative guys. I would get that mixed at your local co-op (molassas, corn & oats) grab a cement mixer & add it all together & let the machine do your work. You could crank them out faster. We live in very sandy area where the minerals all leavh out quickly so we are constantly putting out mineral blocks. Im going to try your method going into winter & see how they look coming out in the spring.
Nice job
Good job dudes. I will try this as well.
Such a great video
It seems like a Summer mix at 12% sweet horse feed with lots of molasses would work and maybe just add whatever else you wanted to it
looked like about 200 lb of ingredients there. Did it use all that for the 6 blocks? What have you figured your cost per block to be?
Great money saver.Thanks guys..
Great video guys thanks going to have to start using it
Appreciate you watching!
Nice job on making the blocks thanks for sharing 👋
I think I'd have me a drill with a big paddle bit or something or like one of those 30 inch steel ribbon ball mixing arms that goes in a drill that they use for plaster and mud. They only cost like $17 if you have a drill. It would cut your time in half. Sounds like y'all have these deer addicted to your blocks, good job.
What does the vegetable oil in the mixture do in the process?
Seems like it would not allow it to bind as well?
How about you just leave it in the bucket and mix it with a drill with a paint or morter mixer in it and scoop it in ..
Sure seams easier....
Great content guys !!
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Saw your video, thought it was great! We would like to make this, but what is the size of your cups you are using when you are getting stuff out of the big bags. They look pretty big and we would like to get it right. Thanks
great video thanks for sharing this awesome content
Thanks for watching!
Good idea for the blocks, I've made salt blocks to get deer to stop at my cameras but never thought of doing feed
Thanks for tuning in!
Great video guys. This is a good mix for Midwest hunters as you guys don't have fire ants. We mix salt in our blocks to keep the Fire Ants out. Happy Hunting -ACE Basin Custom Calls Outdoors
How much salt is needed to keep away ants? I live in the rainforest and ants here are relentless.
A harbor freight cement mixer works great for mixing this together!
Exactly what I was thinking!
I could see using a cheep cement mixer to mix all this up would work great. You could also make bigger batches that way.
I just wondered on the channel and watched the video and I also thought a electric cement mixer would be a great idea
Great video guys. You are young and experimenting doing stuff like that, that's excllent. I wonder if you ever took the time to calculate the real price it comes down to for making one block(ingridients, electricity, time, etc). When you get older with more responsabilities and less time, you might just go to the store and pay a little extra to have done by someone else.;-) But thanks for taking the time to share that guys, keep the passion ;-)
I would pour it all in a bucket and use a paint mixer to stir it up real good
Great video fellas thanks for sharing. I have always wondered how those blocks were made. I am going to have to try this for the deer here on my hunting property here in West Virginia. I subscribed to your channel definitely will be watching more of your all’s videos.
Thanks for watching and subscribing!
Have you ever tryed adding dried pumpkin seeds deer love them and it also helps deworm
You guys have a great channel. Keep on keeping on! Looks like fun for sure, but I'm wondering what the cost is compared to a commerically produced block?
“Bushwacker” from Moncks Corner SC.: I enjoyed this video and will definitely be giving this mixture a try. I believe I may add a bit of vanilla to it as I understand that deer love the taste of vanilla.
When completed, what is the average weight of your feed blocks?
You should find a used concrete mixer to mix everything then you can dump it all in at once and let it go. Then to clean you dump hot water in let spin and dump it. Easy clean up.
Tamp it down easier by greasing up outside of a second bucket filled half way or full of rocks then fill the buckets with rocks and let them sit the 2 days with the bucket in it..
Use to do same things years back.
I like added apple crush and a cup of salt to mine when i make em also i use another bucket to pack it thwn when its packed i keep the a bucket in it and use a ratchet strap to compact it even more..48 hrs later hard as a rock
I would suggest a square bucket. The deer push my square blocks out of camera range when they get small. I can just imagine what they would do to a round one.
And they can't get a square meal with the round ones
I just put a bag of Horse / Cow Sweet Feed in a hydraulic Press and create the block inside of a section of steel pipe with a steel top plate to press it down. Then just push the feed block out of the pipe. It's a lot easier and cheaper. The bags of feed are already made and mixed together... By the time you guys get done mixing and baking, you've spent more than the block costs at the store.
Where do you get big bags of molasses and oats from I live in North carolina.
And the name of it and the one in bug brown bags also.
Thanks
As you noted about two weeks.
I've see corn rain on mold start to spoil Will look on comments
See if any feed backs how it holds up in winter rain.
commercial grade feed blocks
Fall apart too with rain issues.
Just looks pack down harder to me . Got me thinking ever try cooling those two days or three
With heavy weight I get tamping down . Mixing plays a part in bonding in to large
granola bar
When you compact the block in the bucket would be a good time to include some type of anchor in case you have trouble with the blocks being rolled out of the camera view or rolled out of your shooting lane.
I have the same sling on right now haha. Good video
Sorry to hear that! Hoping for a fast recovery for you. Thanks for watching!
That was a good video shoot! Keep up the good work.
Stay tuned!
Great job on the video . Seems like the deer left 2019 maybe they will come back think I’ll make some . Something different
You guys could save a lot of time and money by just going to your local feed supplier and getting a 500lb bag of three way base custom mixed. Specify how much dry molasses and mineral you want mixed into it and then go pick up your bag of feed already all mixed up. Most rural feed suppliers routinely make custom mixes for clients. Because it is in bulk it saves you way more than buying 50lb sacks of separate ingredients. The sacks hold 1,500lbs of feed so if you start with 500lbs of three way as your base your mineral and dry molasses won't put you over what a bulk feed bag will hold.
Good stuff my brothers...
Thanks for watching!
Wouldn't it been easier to mix it all in the bucket then dump it in the pan
I was thinking the same thing. Get a drywall compound mixer for a drill and use that to mix.
Do you have a recipe chart on how much of each product to add?
Awesome video
Thanks for watching!
good job fellas:)
So have a question not sure what i am doing wrong but my blocks are not hardening im using oats dried molasses and corn ..its form to a block but soft
Did you figure it out
Very cool video! Thanks for putting it together. Where do get dried molasses?
Co-op
That was interesting. Thanks. I wondered, though,- what keeps the deer from coming & eating the food out of the bucket during those 2 days it's outside curing? I didn't see you put a lid on it.
I just wondering if y'all guys ever tried mixing some raisins in with it
Great idea guys, thanks for the video. Do the hogs eat this as well. In southeast Texas we have a hog problem.
Thank for sharing!❤
Great Job!
Hello can you share all what did you use?
Thank you
3 questions for ya: 1. Do have to bake the mixture... have u ever tried it with out baking? 2. How does the round slide out of the 5 gallon bucket so easy? 3. What is the link for pictures of bucks eating your feeder rounds?
Thx, trying to learn,
DS
Really nicely done and explained!🙏🏾
Great video
Thanks for watching!
Making some now! Its in the oven
Any concerns about CWD grouping deer around a single source like that? Not judging just curious if you guys have thought about that since the video is a couple years old now and we know a lot more about CWD. Great video.
How’s it work during warmer months?
We typically only put these blocks out during the months just following deer season. When food supplies are low for the deer heard. The blocks work just as well in summer if packed well. I would suggest going heavy on the corn syrup if conditions are warmer.
Is this to help the deer get through the winter or for bait so they can be killed?
Check your comment on the corn. It's relatively low in protein but high in carbohydrates.
has anyone tried using maple syrup with liquid molasses? just wondering how it worked.
You guys ever thought about upping the ingredients x 10 and making one in a 50 gallon drum to make it last all season ?
Yes that would work too! Getting a large barrel or heavy duty plastic tub works just as good. These smaller blocks are a little bit easier to pack and a bit more mobile, but don’t last as long as a large licking tub.
Great job guys! Thank you, I’ll be trying it also.
Don’t have the time to watch but what is cost per 5gal bucket?
Can you tell me the name of the chicken feed you are using?
Poultry layer concrete but any chicken feed works that has calcium and some other small vitamins and minerals
can you use liquid molasses
I am having an issue with the blocks staying together. After a day or so. It falls apart. Any help on keeping it in block form? Thanks
He just told me to add more syrup
Where do you buy the oats? What size bag and cost please.
You can get oats at your local elevator or feed mill. If not accessible, you can buy quick oats at Walmart or your local grocery store!
@@jtoutdoors8896 I live in an urban environment I don't have a feed mill. I usually order my oats from Amazon, but they charge too much $$$ for a 5 lbs bag. I need that big bag in your video.
@@BeyondUnknown00 have you looked around for a feed store ( co op ,tractor supply, stockdale, ) ? It would probably surprise you how close one was or at the most it would make for a nice Saturday morning drive...and if you call one and they claim to not have a ingredient ask them to order it...be safe
You can use one of your other 5 gallon buckets to pack it down.
add some fruit flavored Koolaid mix too in it .. Deer down here in FL come in hard for the orange flavor smell
Busch Light Apple!!!
Awesome video guys!!! When you are letting them sit outside for two days to cure and harden, does it have to be cold for this step?
Great video guys keep it coming I've used similar feed blocks that I've made I recommend adding cinnamon the generic works just fine and brown sugar brown sugar helps also in keeping it all together I put my feed block in a laundry bag and keep it off the ground so how's won't get to it but just high enough for deer good luck guys
Hey guys awesome video and excellent presentation. We need more YOUNG MEN like yourself out Experiencing the Great Outdoors that GOD Created for us. Yall could probably make some money making and Selling those Food Blocks. Approximately how much does each block weigh and how much do you think it cost to make one block? Keep up the awesome videos guys. I subscribed and followed yall.
Hey guys, Great video!! How do the blocks hold up in the rain? I live in the north west and it rains more than snows here.
Find you some aluminum pots the size of the blocks, mix, bake and cure in the pots, take to where you want them and dump out the block, it would be way more efficient.
Any chance of an ingredient list in the description? Thanks fellas!
Just uploaded a list of ingredients and utensils in the description of the video! Thanks for watching!
wher can i buy the dry ingredinets?
You can buy most of your dry ingredients at your local elevator or feed mill! TSC and Bomgars will have a lot of the dry materials as well.
Y'all ever made pack style carp bait?? Try that way I think it maybe easier for you.
T great Idea Thanks
Put up fences around ur blocks and the deer jumping in and out will increase the odds of horns falling by ur block
Good job
Can you publish an ingredient list and how much?
Just uploaded a list of ingredients and utensils in the description of the video! Amount of ingredients is going to depend on how big and how many blocks you make. SiX blocks were made out of the amount of ingredients in the video. Thanks for watching!
Great idea, wish I could use em but the bears would eat em all instead..
My feed store has field corn mixed with molasses in 50lb bags, I assume that might work
Don’t know if it will help for time when you’re draining the corn syrup out of the bottle pour your vegetable oil in the corn syrup bottle shake it all around so you don’t have to wait for it to drain
You could also use a bigger distribution cup to add the ingredients so it wouldn't take as long to make a single batch. Just saying
One can of that ❄️ on the 🏔 good for the rut
You guys should get a cheap concrete mixer from harbor freight
Bet the bears 🐻 enjoy that block as well...🦌🤷
Bears in South Dakota????
Where do you get dry molasses?
I do the same thing these 2 young men do and it works well! You can get the molasses on Amazon or tractor supply or southern states or fcx supplier!
It's a 50lb bag
Your local farm supply store should be able to get it
Why do you have to bake it?
I can't do that where I live . Big trouble . Homeowners can't even feed the deer in the dead of winter in NY. I've seen so many instances where wildlife management hurts the wildlife more than helping it.
Here at J&T Outdoors we try to have the healthiest deer heard we can. We believe trophy rocks help us do that. We also recognize that many states prohibit mineral rocks due to CWD. Fortunately for us, we haven’t seen any cases in our counties.
I personally feed my deer year round not just the season helps with fawns and antler grown and all around health of all the animals that eat what I feed. When I 1st got my property it had minimal deer just traveling past. Now I been feeding deer have moved in and residents of my property. The bucks don't wander to far as I have watched them grow from fawns . The population has grown very very good and an lucky that we are allowed 12 deer a year since I have created a monster lol to many critters
Tell the NY game wardens there not deer blocks there for the birds they are bird feeders wich isn't illegal and watch those big antler having birds come right in NY as a big problem with to many deers in certian parts why pay snipers and stupid neutering to try and cull herds when hunters are way more effective and cost way less actually they spend money that goes back to conservationist thru the Pittman Robertson act