Do deer like Cherries?
10-11-2005, 05:52 AM
#1
Spike
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Do deer like Cherries?
One of the trees I like to use my climbing stand in has 3 smaller cherry trees around its base. They are all bearing fruit at the moment, and I was wondering if deer like cherries, and if this could act as a sort of natural attractant. I guess these could be something else, but they sure look like cherries. Any thoughts? Thanks!
10-11-2005, 10:45 AM
#2
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Do deer like Cherries?
I live in southern IL and most of the cherry trees here have fruit in the mid to late summer months. Are you sure its not persimmons? Thats about the only thing around here that would be bearing fruit right now that I can think of...besides apples.
10-11-2005, 11:10 AM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: Do deer like Cherries?
Persimmons are orange and about the size of a ping pong ball , and yes deer love them . They're like crack for deer , if you see droppings with hard black oval seeds in it the deer that left it was eating persimmons .
10-11-2005, 11:11 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Do deer like Cherries?
That sounds like Autumn Olive berries to me....are the leaves kinda gray/silver? Autumn Olive trees are more of a bush....and deer love them here. Persimmons are kind of orange and deer and coons love them once they are ripe.
10-11-2005, 01:21 PM
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Typical Buck
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RE: Do deer like Cherries?
They could be small crabapples......We have tons of them where we hunt, I had no clue what they were and then found a tree on the Illinois State University quad, that has the tree labled as a crabapple tree.
From my experience the deer wont even touch them here.
From my experience the deer wont even touch them here.
10-11-2005, 02:48 PM
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Dominant Buck
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RE: Do deer like Cherries?
ORIGINAL: Vogt_51
They could be small crabapples......We have tons of them where we hunt, I had no clue what they were and then found a tree on the Illinois State University quad, that has the tree labled as a crabapple tree.
From my experience the deer wont even touch them here.
They could be small crabapples......We have tons of them where we hunt, I had no clue what they were and then found a tree on the Illinois State University quad, that has the tree labled as a crabapple tree.
From my experience the deer wont even touch them here.