I know they use something in caribou antlers to save the velvet. I think it is formaldehyde but not sure. Then they put them into the cold water for a while but that's all I know about it.
Activity at my salt licks has dropped off considerably. Patterns starting to change. Pulled down one camera. Added corn to the lick at other spot to see if I can get an inventory of antlers in my area. Still waiting to see a certain buck.
Add crows and possibly it will rot before the deer eat it, piled like that. And not in my area (maybe for now??) thankfully but in many you add in pigs and it will be gone over night.
Heck, just the salt rock has gotten me pics of deer, squirrels, coons, opossums, fox and a bobcat! I have the camera at a distance from target that keeps smaller critters from triggering. Not many Jays in my woods, but once the doves find it, oh boy! No pigs here yet. I'm fairly confident that it will be eaten before rotting. I almost fired the spin feeder back up instead, but it seems that the older bucks are a little wary of them. I had more antler pics last winter from just dumping piles in out of the way places than at the feeder. When feeding in the past, a pile like that would disappear completely in under 7 days. We shall see! Been trying to source some crab apples or pears to toss out as well. No luck yet. My old free pear supplier was cut down a couple years back.
That area doesn't traditionally have elk. We started getting a few on camera in 2015. I emailed those first elk pics to a state biologist and they seemed interested. Since then, We've got a couple more elk pics, seen a bunch of tracks, and heard rumors about sightings. Anyway, I emailed this recent pic to a bio again. It'll be interesting if he provides any background on the tag and collar.
The state biologist replied to my email. He said that cow was captured and tagged in March as part of a study by a local tribe. He's going to pass my info on to the tribal bio's.
Not exactly trail cam but cellphone. We were down to camp the last two days and last night we had this spike come running straight towards the camp and stop dead right where he's at to eat pears. I had a few myself while on the tractor today the old tree is loaded!
I've got my eyes on this big ol 5pt around my place. I've had him on camera for 2yrs now and not much has changed except he gained a brow tine and a little width. And the second pic is a huge 8pt from a friends camera, about 1/8 mile from another property i hunt. Hoping that big boy shows his face on my side of the woods.
I really liked this picture of the 2-toned fawn. This really shows how they are changing from summer to winter coats already.
Elk were reintroduced into several places in our province and it has been successful to the point that a few areas now have a season.
