Deer Attractants Jello Kool-Aid Pudding Salt Sugar

Hiker of the Woods · Feb 29, 2020

What is everyones favorite DIY homemade deer attractant?

Seems like most people use Jello, Kool-Aid, or Pudding powder with salt and sugar?

Most popular flavors of Jello and Kool-Aid seem to be Grape & Cherry.

Most popular flavor of Pudding seem to be Butterscotch and Vanilla.

Then people use all different kinds of Salt (Table, Stock, Mineral) and Sugar (Granulated, Powder, Brown).

What is your favorite mix and how much of each product do you use in your mix?

How do you use your mix? Pour straight on ground or stump, over a mineral or feed block, over/mixed in with loose feed (corn, rice bran, alfalfa), mix with molasses?

grizzly · Feb 29, 2020

I hear Cherry Jell-O is full of trace minerals that deer desperately need to keep them away from highways!

Hiker of the Woods · Mar 10, 2020

grizzly said:
I hear Cherry Jell-O is full of trace minerals that deer desperately need to keep them away from highways!

Thanks for posting and keeping my thread at the top of the page. I love the help.

Joe2Kool · Mar 16, 2020

Hmmm. I'll have to check with my GW to see if that is considered baiting.

Harley hugh · Sep 29, 2024

I use trace mineral salt 40lbs, 2 pre mixed cherry kool, 4 vanilla pudding,10lbs of white sugar, and 4 green apple jello packets and a big bag of whole peanuts. Mix that all up. It works great.

Moe · Oct 4, 2024

If I could only slop up a stump in Idaho with that!

DeerAddiction4 · Oct 4, 2024

Anybody ever tried BigTine?

Harley hugh · Oct 4, 2024

yah big nine doesn’t work as good as what I just posted

Harley hugh · Oct 4, 2024

Joe2Kool said:
Hmmm. I'll have to check with my GW to see if that is considered baiting.

You use it in the off season. And it stays in the dirt all year.

Bluehair · Oct 5, 2024

I don’t believe that’s legal here in CO.

3TOE · Oct 6, 2024

Years ago I tried just about everything there was out there in MS before they made baiting illegal.
The 2 things that I found that the deer went absolutely crazy over were a huge pile of apples or a giant tub of peanut butter.
I would literally laugh out loud watching deer licking the peanut butter. They loved it.

Harley hugh · Oct 6, 2024

Oh yah been there. It is definitely funny watching that. One time I put an old box of lucky charms and watched the deer pick out marshmallows like a kid would. lol.

Pirogue · Oct 8, 2024

Y’all trying to bait coon traps?

Pirogue · Oct 8, 2024

Bluehair said:
I don’t believe that’s legal here in CO.

That libtard state doesn’t allow recreational trapping, much less baiting, trades with fellow libtard state, OR, for wolves, and now lets the people vote to ban mountain lion hunting. Who is that fish and game commission in bed with? Oh, wait, forgot “Parks” is part of thier title and evidently sole interest. Pitiful!

Mallardsx2 · Oct 9, 2024

grape koolaid in a post hole will bring in the hogs for miles…. Just saying.

Bluehair · Oct 9, 2024

Pirogue said:
That libtard state doesn’t allow recreational trapping, much less baiting, trades with fellow libtard state, OR, for wolves, and now lets the people vote to ban mountain lion hunting. Who is that fish and game commission in bed with? Oh, wait, forgot “Parks” is part of thier title and evidently sole interest. Pitiful!

Yup…..be sure and tell all your friends

BPKHunter · Oct 11, 2024

I’m not sure, but I don’t think any western states, including the less liberal ones don’t allow baiting or feeders for anny deer and reading this sounds just wrong. But if it’s legal in your state….

Of course I’m sure many Idahoans use the same stuff in their bear baits.