feeder attractant
#11
Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 85
RE: feeder attractant
I tried using pellet feed specially for deer and they totally ignored it.I also tried an apple flavored pellet type feed and again they wanted nothing to do with it.I put out cracked corn and they could'nt get enough over the winter.I was beginning to think I would be able to take them off my taxes.I went thru about 300 pounds of corn and was rewarded with a shed antler laying next to the feeder.
#12
RE: feeder attractant
ORIGINAL: findinbone
I tried using pellet feed specially for deer and they totally ignored it.I also tried an apple flavored pellet type feed and again they wanted nothing to do with it.I put out cracked corn and they could'nt get enough over the winter.I was beginning to think I would be able to take them off my taxes.I went thru about 300 pounds of corn and was rewarded with a shed antler laying next to the feeder.
I tried using pellet feed specially for deer and they totally ignored it.I also tried an apple flavored pellet type feed and again they wanted nothing to do with it.I put out cracked corn and they could'nt get enough over the winter.I was beginning to think I would be able to take them off my taxes.I went thru about 300 pounds of corn and was rewarded with a shed antler laying next to the feeder.
I experienced this same thing. I also tried soybeans with them just rotting beneath the feeder.
Both pellets and soybeans were mixed with corn. the corn would get ate but not the otheres except by crows, squirrels,birds and raccoons. That stuff is too expensive if they don't eat it.
#13
RE: feeder attractant
"I believe deer are finding other sources of nutrition now.I've been feeding since hunting season ended and they have just about abondened the feeder now that the forest is greening up."
It has happened to me in OK also. Deer are eating other stuff and the birds are eating the corn. To make things worse, the hogs have recently located the feeder. Looks likei need to turn it off until fall.
It has happened to me in OK also. Deer are eating other stuff and the birds are eating the corn. To make things worse, the hogs have recently located the feeder. Looks likei need to turn it off until fall.
#16
RE: feeder attractant
ORIGINAL: Windwalker7
I experienced this same thing. I also tried soybeans with them just rotting beneath the feeder.
Both pellets and soybeans were mixed with corn. the corn would get ate but not the otheres except by crows, squirrels,birds and raccoons. That stuff is too expensive if they don't eat it.
ORIGINAL: findinbone
I tried using pellet feed specially for deer and they totally ignored it.I also tried an apple flavored pellet type feed and again they wanted nothing to do with it.I put out cracked corn and they could'nt get enough over the winter.I was beginning to think I would be able to take them off my taxes.I went thru about 300 pounds of corn and was rewarded with a shed antler laying next to the feeder.
I tried using pellet feed specially for deer and they totally ignored it.I also tried an apple flavored pellet type feed and again they wanted nothing to do with it.I put out cracked corn and they could'nt get enough over the winter.I was beginning to think I would be able to take them off my taxes.I went thru about 300 pounds of corn and was rewarded with a shed antler laying next to the feeder.
I experienced this same thing. I also tried soybeans with them just rotting beneath the feeder.
Both pellets and soybeans were mixed with corn. the corn would get ate but not the otheres except by crows, squirrels,birds and raccoons. That stuff is too expensive if they don't eat it.
#19
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: NW Arkansas
Posts: 43
RE: feeder attractant
falon said To make things worse, the hogs have recently located the feeder
Falon
If you need some help with those hogs over the summer I will being you some corn & thin out some of them.
I use corn for several year & all year long inseveral differentarea's along with cloverif youwatch deercome into the feeding areathey will always go to clover first.Have found nothing better than corn as attract fordeer.
Falon
If you need some help with those hogs over the summer I will being you some corn & thin out some of them.
I use corn for several year & all year long inseveral differentarea's along with cloverif youwatch deercome into the feeding areathey will always go to clover first.Have found nothing better than corn as attract fordeer.
#20
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
RE: feeder attractant
The only way I have seen pelleted deer feed work is in a covered trough type of feeder. Anything but corn in a spin feeder I have tried just lays there and rots and the last corn I put in a spin feeder aborbed or had too much moisture in it that it molded and rotted in the feeder. If I mix soybeans with corn in with the beans, the beans rot to the extent that the corn then rots and nothing eats it but possums, coons, birds and coyotes. I think 50% or more of the feed put out is eat by something other than deer.