what r the deer eating now in the woods???
 

it's pretty bare here in the pa area...and delaware. very few crops...what r they keying on now...i am still finding persimmon seeds in dropping...

RE: what r the deer eating now in the woods???
 

We have a couple inches of growth in some pastures were not using and they feed there quite a bit at night .In the woods we have some trees that still have leaves and any they can reach are gone .They don't eat them through the summer but this time of year it seems to be a main food source .

RE: what r the deer eating now in the woods???
 

I am seeing deer feeding in winter wheat fields.

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The deer around my house are eating ,corn,roasted soybeans ,sorgum all supplied by me in my back yard.Last year I went thru 1200lbs of the stuff,but boy I got fat deer in the yard.this year one of the does got hit in front of my house and I have it in the freezer. 181 lb dressed

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Well after my trek through the snow yesterday, mine are eating corn, deer blocks and soon some minerals!

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their tearin the acorns up here in south Ar!

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Acorns and browse

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On my property I notice that the deer eat the laurel trees pretty hard. I have trees thats are totally bare.

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Here in my neck of the woods the elk and deer are feeding together on all the available browse they can find.... above the 2-3 foot snow line. My mineral and salt licks are getting hit hard. I too have been putting out apples and corn for winter carbohydrates combined with alfalfa bails for extra protein.

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Late winter foods also include greenbriar and honeysuckle. I like to concentrate my hunting now on south facing slopes with a lot of honeysuckle on them. On one farm I hunt they are ripping up the red oak acorns that dropped in early Nov. They never hit them hard when they are dropping, they always leave them until later in the winter.

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The buck I killed last week had a belly full of browse, mixed with a few acorns.

The Tazman

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thanks guys

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I'm in NW PA and watched a doe 80 yards from my stand Saturday pawing through knee deep snow and oak leaves to get at acorns. I moved my stand to where the oaks are and grass field that borders them deer are in at night.

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Around here, if you find a pine thicket, there seem to be a lot of mushrooms growing in the pine needles on the ground. Everywhere I look, the deer are tearing the tops off the mushrooms on their way to the acorns.

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RE: what r the deer eating now in the woods???
 

i know they r hitting the winter wheat here in DE