Its a great day in PA
03-10-2009 | 11:30 AM
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RE: Its a great day in PA
Sproul, did you just put in the Alfalfa this year?
Guys more experienced at this food plot thing than me say that deer sometimes take a while to start utilizing newly planted species even though deer elsewhere seem to love em. I know we planted turnips on our place for the first time this year.They are supposed to turn sweet after good hard freeze but the deer didnt bother withem much till well into January butonce they started, theyflat out mauled em.
This is a guess but ifyour deerarent used to Alfalfa, it may take aseason or two to get em going on it. Deer in the midwest love the stuff but once it frosts hard, they back way off of it and move on the other sources.
Guys more experienced at this food plot thing than me say that deer sometimes take a while to start utilizing newly planted species even though deer elsewhere seem to love em. I know we planted turnips on our place for the first time this year.They are supposed to turn sweet after good hard freeze but the deer didnt bother withem much till well into January butonce they started, theyflat out mauled em.
This is a guess but ifyour deerarent used to Alfalfa, it may take aseason or two to get em going on it. Deer in the midwest love the stuff but once it frosts hard, they back way off of it and move on the other sources.
03-10-2009 | 02:17 PM
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RE: Its a great day in PA
"Can't speak for all of 2A but the I-70 corridor is just teeming with deer. Our light was gone by quickly as we came into PA but we managed to see a dozen plus groups of deer numbering as few a s 2-3 to a dozen or more.
I-70 is the border between 2A and 2b, so unless you saw all of them on one side of the road, you saw deer from both wmus... Course im sure you'll say they were ALL on your right side coming back, just to show how wrong i am! (LOL). Also thats far from Greene. Also far farther north that our boundary SHOULD run with responsibly smaller wmus. But believe it or not, deer here also have survived.
Even if there arefar fewerinmany sections ofgreene in areas that far from recovered from ehd.
I-70 is the border between 2A and 2b, so unless you saw all of them on one side of the road, you saw deer from both wmus... Course im sure you'll say they were ALL on your right side coming back, just to show how wrong i am! (LOL). Also thats far from Greene. Also far farther north that our boundary SHOULD run with responsibly smaller wmus. But believe it or not, deer here also have survived.
Even if there arefar fewerinmany sections ofgreene in areas that far from recovered from ehd.
03-10-2009 | 02:26 PM
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RE: Its a great day in PA
The alfalfa "pellets" I had were pretty large, more like 2.5 x 1.5" chunks of pressed alfalfa. Suckers were hard as rocks. Didnt know it when I bought them. I wasnt surprised that the deer didnt eat them. They were for horses, and deer would need the teeth of a horse to eat em. 
03-10-2009 | 02:50 PM
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RE: Its a great day in PA
ORIGINAL: Cornelius08
"Can't speak for all of 2A but the I-70 corridor is just teeming with deer. Our light was gone by quickly as we came into PA but we managed to see a dozen plus groups of deer numbering as few a s 2-3 to a dozen or more.
I-70 is the border between 2A and 2b, so unless you saw all of them on one side of the road, you saw deer from both wmus... Course im sure you'll say they were ALL on your right side coming back, just to show how wrong i am! (LOL). Also thats far from Greene. Also far farther north that our boundary SHOULD run with responsibly smaller wmus. But believe it or not, deer here also have survived. Even if there arefar fewerinmany sections ofgreene in areas that far from recovered from ehd.
"Can't speak for all of 2A but the I-70 corridor is just teeming with deer. Our light was gone by quickly as we came into PA but we managed to see a dozen plus groups of deer numbering as few a s 2-3 to a dozen or more.
I-70 is the border between 2A and 2b, so unless you saw all of them on one side of the road, you saw deer from both wmus... Course im sure you'll say they were ALL on your right side coming back, just to show how wrong i am! (LOL). Also thats far from Greene. Also far farther north that our boundary SHOULD run with responsibly smaller wmus. But believe it or not, deer here also have survived.
Even if there arefar fewerinmany sections ofgreene in areas that far from recovered from ehd.
03-10-2009 | 04:26 PM
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RE: Its a great day in PA
Must be because it's foreign to them. If there was nothing else ther and they get hungry, I bet they'd try it and then they'd be all over it.
I just know they love the live stuff till the frost makes it bitter
I just know they love the live stuff till the frost makes it bitter