I really don't feed unless I need to. Something that you should keep in mind is to make sure there is No dust in the corn. They call this washed corn or dust free. Dust + dampness can cause disease in the flock.Try to use a sealed feeder, so the corn stays dry. Another point when you have deer eating from the same sources is to make sure they can not eat from a heap of feed this can cause CWD. Control feed your wildlife and they will do OK.

I'm not sure how much snow you all get in Missouri, but the problem we get here at times is that a foot or 2 will drop and a freezing rain will come and cover the snow in a hard coating of ice. With the way the winter has been here the snow levels came faster this year and we had a Ton. At one point we had close to 4 feet on the level and a hard crust at the 3 foot mark.

This is out my back door