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Old 12-08-2010 | 07:16 PM
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timbercruiser
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You need to check and see if any of the local milling companies blend a deer feed. I just helped a guy get set up with Harrell Milling Company in Hartford, Al to supply feed for his new deer pen. Honestly for a wild herd you would be money ahead to plant plots and fertilize natural food sources for the deer. Most of the wild forage a deer uses is 16% or higher and that is all a deer can digest. I wouldn't doubt if over 50% of feed in a feeder is consumed by squirrels, coons, possums, birds and other critters as well as being wasted on the ground.
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