If anyone is interested in one after I get them built let me know. I am sure we can come up with a reasonable deal. Mabe even a trade somehow. I will get one built first and get some pics on as well before anyone sets their minds on it. PM me if you are interested....

Would love to see some pictures!

I will get some on as soon as I get them built. Im not out to make a lot of $ on this so will not plan on building a lot of them. But while I am building my own it will not be that big a deal to make a few more....

Id just really like to see how you build them. Interesting seeing all the different designs, what works, what doesn't and new ideas to try.

Somebody help me out here, I've got to be doing something wrong. I made a free choice feeder from an old funnel I had, filled it with some protein from Tractor Supply, and in a year, the deer never ate it. Each time I went out, I cleaned the old stuff off the plate, made sure the new stuff was fresh, and still nothing. Finally I dumped a bag of corn over top of the protein, cleaned the funnel until the corn filtered down and mixed with the protein. The deer ate as long as the corn was present, then completely vacated the rest. I ended up dumping what was left of the protein and went straight corn at the start of the season.

What kind of protein can I buy in bags that the deer will eat?

Eastland county/Stephens county line, if it makes a difference.

Some deer need to be trained into protein. The 50/50 mix is a good start. Time of year makes a difference also, early spring best bet. I have also used Horse sweet feed in the 50/50 mix.

Rack Daddy from Tractor supply or a local feed store will be able to get a formula from their local mill.

John if deer are coming to your protein, when there are natural high protein foods around, I'm going to guess that the natural feed is short of an essential mineral provided in your protein mix.

Thanks man, I guess I'll try something else. I've got game cam pics of the deer eating out of it when the corn was mixed in, so I know they know it was feed. If my cam had video with sound, I'm sure I would have seen them eating the corn and spitting out the protein, not unlike the spitoon scene in Blazing Saddles.