RE: missing deer
Its hard to tell since I don't know your area. However if that happened where I hunt, I would know that have changes their food source. Where I hunt, in Oct and Nov, the winter wheat is green and growing and full of deer. However by late Dec abd Jan. The wheat has gone dormant and the deer start feeding in the harvested fields and hay fielllds and stacks. The will change there food source as it becomes necessary.