I had a mineral lick set up where I wanted to hunt this coming season. The other week, I left my camera out for about 4 days and got 78 pictures. This past week, I left it out while I was on spring break, and got 16. About 4 of them were deer, but none were eating at the mineral lick, they were off behind it. The difference was, I got a picture of a coyote taking a dump directly on the site. Another occurrence like this happened a few years ago, when there was a really good scrape that was there most of the season, then I walked by it one day and there was coyote poop on it. The deer never touched it again. But anyways, will the deer, with time, start using the mineral lick again? Or should I just call it quits for that spot and put a new lick in a different location?
That's a new one for me. We have a very heavy coyote population here and have never seen anything happen like that.
I've had wolves & foxes pee and crap in mineral sites before. I think they like the smell so they mark it?
We had a wolf rolling and peeing in one of ours on camera it was weird. After that happened not much action on that sight, like Fitz said i think they like the smell of it and mark it!
