ORIGINAL: quiksilver
Just wondering something from a nutritional perspective:
What are the nutritional values (calories/protein/carbs/etc.)of the various deer foods?
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Field Corn- Carbs, Calories[*]
Sweet Corn- not sure but I canthelp but think they would difffer from the above.[*]
Browse- usually most browse will provide aruond 12% daily protein for deer.[*]
Alfalfa Protein[*]
Grasses Not sure[*]
Acorns (Red vs. White) Carbs, calories, carbs and more carbs.[*]
Soybean havent done a lot of reading on beans, but Im pretty certain they pack some protein.[/ul]I always key my early-season buck hunting in on bucks that are calorie-loading for the late fall. I'd like to "think" I know why they hammer certain foods at certain times, but if I had some nutritional data, it might make it a little easier to connect the dots.
Is this info available anywhere? I looked for a minute, and apparently I'm too damn stupid to find it.
Let's put on our Google pants and take a walk down this road.