Deer Food

[WSU]

What sort of food do people put in front of their cams in the fall?  I've been using old apples, but my supply is going to run out shortly.  The deer were coming in daily for a nice meal.  What do people use (preferably something that is relatively cheap)?

[Wolfdog2314]

Wet cob

[DaveBTS]

Too much corn will kill a deer. They're not smart enough to stop eating it.

[nwwanderer]

Pea pellets from Spokane Seed would work.  Whole grain is fine, start slow if it is new to your deer.  A good vitamin mineral mix is great, a small amount works and is beneficial.  Think of what they would get on there own and build from there.  Simply mowing, watering and fertilizing well grow things like crazy that the deer love.  No water?  Mow it and fertilize after the first rain.  $10 worth of fertilizer will help for fall, winter and spring. 

[sebek556]

did a area with dry cob last year for my kids to hunt. This year it has turned into a natural food plot. The deer pounded the area to bare soil, then ate the cob, fertilized the soil with said cob. Then the wet spring came and poof, grain growing like mad.  a 55lb bag at Big R right now is 12.something a bag

[Hunterman]

Too 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)

[WSU]

I haven't been feeding them all year, but have for a couple months.  It really helps with the trail cam pics, which is my main goal.  They have plenty of food where they are.

[Button Nubbs]

If you've been feeding them for a couple months you should be good to go. I haven't had much luck with cobb where I hunt but they do love apples.

[KopperBuck]

Too 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.

[BULLBLASTER]

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.

[buckhorn2]

Tried to get some deer apples but they were out but a guy was buying 5 boxes of pears and said deer loved them so I bought a box and the deer ate them all in about 3 days. So if no apples try pears it worked for me.

[fair-chase]

Too 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.

[blacktailcody]

Wet cob.

[Blacktail Sniper]

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.html

http://www.neighborhoodlink.com/Timberwood_Park/topics/179314

[KopperBuck]

Too 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