there's 8 inches of snow on the ground and all the soybean/cornfields have been harvested? Certainly the acorns are long gone as well. I know throughhanging outhere that I'm supposed to be concentrating on food souces but what do you do when the fields are mowed clean? What and where are alternate food sources?

They all go to atlasman's yard and eat the feed he puts out for them.

They eat anything that they can reach. They get on their hind legs and start stripping off browse. Most pickers will leave some corn or beans on the ground. Winter wheat fields and dormant hay fields are good to.

The deer here search out acorns through Feb. They can find them, esp the ones the squirrels hide. They also eat browse,( bark,plant tips, pine needles etc)

Around here they hit the cedar bows. If you cut a cedar or just a few branches they will be there eating it right away. We also feed them alfalfa hay when the winter gets tougher. They also eat buds off the trees. With any logging going on that is where they will be at night.


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Honkey's right,anything in reach.

bark
eastern red cedar
brassics
and believe it or not I've herd of deer getting into peoples garbage. NOW I'VE NEVER SEEN IT BUT HEY IT'S COLD AND FOOD IS SCARCE. probably a bunch of bologna but thats what i herd once.

Corn people put out

seen them eating horsechestnuts? or pinecones out of the front yard of a place i hunt.

The deer here graze in the picked fields for alonger amount of time. We plant food plots of soybeans and corn, just a little acre. There deer wont touch the beans until the first snow, after that then they are goine within a week. The corn they are in there nonstop and they usually have it gone by about january.