Feeding deer corn?
#21
RE: Feeding deer corn?
ORIGINAL: wis_bow_huntr
Go ahead and feed it to them, but they get no nutritional value from corn unless its cracked.
Go ahead and feed it to them, but they get no nutritional value from corn unless its cracked.
#22
RE: Feeding deer corn?
ORIGINAL: huntingson
You realize that cracked corn is just corn that has been crushed, right?
ORIGINAL: wis_bow_huntr
Go ahead and feed it to them, but they get no nutritional value from corn unless its cracked.
Go ahead and feed it to them, but they get no nutritional value from corn unless its cracked.
#23
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: W Suffield Ct
Posts: 204
RE: Feeding deer corn?
#27
RE: Feeding deer corn?
ORIGINAL: Critr-Gitr
I can assure you the corn is cracked by the time it gets to their stomach. You can hear the kernels cracking from 30 yards away when they are feeding.
I can assure you the corn is cracked by the time it gets to their stomach. You can hear the kernels cracking from 30 yards away when they are feeding.
#28
RE: Feeding deer corn?
Thanks Ray!
#29
RE: Feeding deer corn?
The key concept for folks to remember here is the difference between supplemental feeding as a low percentage of the deers diet vs. a sudden replacement of the deers food base. The former is fine, and can be helpful to improve condition coming out of winter, but the latter is never good no matter what species you are talking about. As with most things, common sense must be applied.
#30
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: land of the Lilliputians, In the state of insanity
Posts: 26,274
RE: Feeding deer corn?
Deer are like all rudmens, they will need to have the source allwinter to keep the bacteria in their guts for fermenting the grain. Dont feed all at once, put out a little at a time. The deer and other critters will love it, just dont cut them off until other brows starts taking off.