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Too much corn will kill a deer. They're not smart enough to stop eating it.
Quote from: DaveBTS on September 20, 2012, 03:04:35 PMToo much corn will kill a deer. They're not smart enough to stop eating it.Don't seem to hurt the deer in the mid-west.. So that statement is nul and void..Any good mix of grain, and oats with sweets in it will work well.. Hopefully you've been feeding them all year..Hunterman(Tony)
Quote from: Hunterman on September 20, 2012, 08:09:01 PMQuote from: DaveBTS on September 20, 2012, 03:04:35 PMToo much corn will kill a deer. They're not smart enough to stop eating it.Don't seem to hurt the deer in the mid-west.. So that statement is nul and void..Any good mix of grain, and oats with sweets in it will work well.. Hopefully you've been feeding them all year..Hunterman(Tony)No. Actually there's quite a bit of validity to his statement. Scientifically speaking anyways.
Quote from: KopperBuck on September 21, 2012, 10:43:12 AMQuote from: Hunterman on September 20, 2012, 08:09:01 PMQuote from: DaveBTS on September 20, 2012, 03:04:35 PMToo much corn will kill a deer. They're not smart enough to stop eating it.Don't seem to hurt the deer in the mid-west.. So that statement is nul and void..Any good mix of grain, and oats with sweets in it will work well.. Hopefully you've been feeding them all year..Hunterman(Tony)No. Actually there's quite a bit of validity to his statement. Scientifically speaking anyways. This is interesting. Curious to know how an excess of corn would kill a deer. Whats the reasoning here? Lack of nutrition, or gaseous bloating like cows with too much alfalfa??? Would like to hear some evidence or conclusions one way or the other.
Quote from: fair-chase on September 21, 2012, 12:01:22 PMQuote from: KopperBuck on September 21, 2012, 10:43:12 AMQuote from: Hunterman on September 20, 2012, 08:09:01 PMQuote from: DaveBTS on September 20, 2012, 03:04:35 PMToo much corn will kill a deer. They're not smart enough to stop eating it.Don't seem to hurt the deer in the mid-west.. So that statement is nul and void..Any good mix of grain, and oats with sweets in it will work well.. Hopefully you've been feeding them all year..Hunterman(Tony)No. Actually there's quite a bit of validity to his statement. Scientifically speaking anyways. This is interesting. Curious to know how an excess of corn would kill a deer. Whats the reasoning here? Lack of nutrition, or gaseous bloating like cows with too much alfalfa??? Would like to hear some evidence or conclusions one way or the other.If you get a good set of corn starting in Aug and religiously keep it baited with no rest into Oct, that deer will eventually die of lead poisoning
Here are a copule links about deer & corn, interesting reading anyway:http://www.farmanddairy.com/columns/feeding-corn-to-deer-could-be-death-sentence/14324.htmlhttp://www.neighborhoodlink.com/Timberwood_Park/topics/179314
Quote from: Blacktail Sniper on September 21, 2012, 12:09:15 PMHere are a copule links about deer & corn, interesting reading anyway:http://www.farmanddairy.com/columns/feeding-corn-to-deer-could-be-death-sentence/14324.htmlhttp://www.neighborhoodlink.com/Timberwood_Park/topics/179314Whoa.... someone had to bring facts and data into this? I was just being a smartass.I think a straight diet of any food source would cause a problem. Just like I can't eat bacon alone everyday, as much as I would like to. Deer eat corn all over, and do well off of it. But it's not their only food source.
heres a question, ok i grow biologic and the blacktail dont seem to really care about it and neither do the elk, so what can i grow that will come back every year that both blacktail and elk will chow on?
I use sweet cob and mineral blocks. In the winter I set out a few bales of alfalfa. Just curious though, do you think its bad for the deer in the middle of winter with not alot of other food around to be eating 100% alfalfa bales? Do you think alfala/grass would be better or does it matter? I feed them 100% alfalfa and they seem fine.
You won't get a deer to eat enough corn and anything else to kill them. They will always eat natural browse as well. I have read that corn to deer is like people eating candy. No real nutritional value but won't kill you in moderation. If you kept a deer in a pen and all it could ever eat is corn that would he bad. Even at baits the deer eat plenty of natural browse and don't sat the bait exclusively. Or they would be there all the time.