I was thinking of checking out a place I've never hunted before. It's a cabbage field (heck of a scent!) bordered by some hardwoods. Should I brave the smell and hunt it tomorrow or go somewhere else?
Yes, they do eat cabbage! It may not be their first choice, but they do eat it! The closest shack to ours, about 3 miles, plants cabbage every year, and the deer clean the garden every year!!
Maybe they do..but we have a 60 acre Cabbage patch near our Cabin and have never seen a deer feeding in it when it's cabbage...not once. I sure wouldn't sit on it.
Deer where we're at LOVE cabbage (upper michigan, northern WI). They definitely eat it, and like it. They eat it when it is young and also when it is ripe, not sure if when it is going bad.
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The few cabbage fields around here seem to get hit really hard by deer later in the season. A few years ago, well I guess it was more than a few as it was before antler restrictions, we spotted a large cabbage field on the first heavy snow fall of the year and counted over 100 deer in that field.
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Do you guys know that cabbage is a member of the brassica family? If it's the only green thing in the area, they will be on it. They may not eat it if you are surrounded by corn or beans, but if there is nothing else out there now they will hit it hard.
I was thinking of checking out a place I've never hunted before. It's a cabbage field (heck of a scent!) bordered by some hardwoods. Should I brave the smell and hunt it tomorrow or go somewhere else?
You will have better luck trying to win the lottery than hunting that cabbage field. Get into those hardwoods and get yourself around the acorn trees and thick cover. BUT...towards the end of the year and colder months, deer will eat it in order to survive and make it through the harder months when food is minimal.
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Deer eat cabbage?
