How Much corn will a deer eat ????????
 

I never feed deer before. I set up 3 homemade gravity feeders. Put one at three different locations on a 105 acre area.The very first night all three feeders were emptied . Had 25 LBs of corn in each. The second night they ate 40Lbs at each feeder. Wiped them out.How many deer you thiink is dong this ? I will go broke.Oh and they ate a half bushel of apples.PLus they were eating on the green clover in the field.

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I think you need to harvest about a dozen this year.

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Sounds like a bunch of fat nannies that would look real good as sausage. I've had 50 pounds disappear in a night before and corn is twice as high as it was 5 years ago.

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i would say half your problem is coons and squirrels you need to trapem out of there i would say the only way to know for sure is to set up a game cam....but my guess is that youve got some fat and sassy coons up there!!;)


Ozark

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i agree its coons i had them clean me out afew times,until i killed them.then 50# of corn would go 5 to 7 days.

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We use to have the same problem until...... some guns, and traps came out! lol

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Geta trail camera out. Set it up with a clear view of the feeder and you will know exacually what comes in.

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If the corn is available for them they will eat it year round. However deer get no nutritional value from eating corn unless its cracked.

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That's what their teeth are for!

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Yes i know that but if they are eating hole kernels, there is no nutritional value in it. Such as in cattle corn, thats why its cracked befor eits put through for feed.

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probly not the deer eatin all of it

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Im thinkin you got yourself a bear(s)!!??

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OK , I checked the area.All deer tracks,no bear tracks or coon. When I put the corn there it was a mixture of thick rye grass and clover. Now there is a 8 foot circle of bare dirt with deer track on top of tracks. Looks like a elk hole. Then I talked to a neighbor who owns 400 acres down the road. ( not adjoining but close). He said he only shoots bucks 8 Pt and better and never shoots does. He made a count this spring and said he has seen around 120 doe and around 60 buck on his 400 acres. I dont know this for a fact,just what he said. When I drove up the driveway I seen a wall of tails entering the thicket. Pulled up within 40 yards of the feeder and after 10 minutes five deer came back,along with 2 buck,then finally 11 more doe. I went up to the other feeder at the gas well site and that had deer in it.All took place at 12:30 PM. To bad I probably only have 1 year to hunt it.

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I don't think it matters if the corn is cracked or whole. Deer chew their cud and grind it up anyway.

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Look at those little stink pots in that picture! LOL! Man back in the day when I was a young man we'd be getting the Walkers out and treeing some of em for a good blasting. You dont get much $$ for a coon hide anymore. Coon hunting is a good time especially when you have a bunch of people going. Well I think you probably have a mess of deer visiting that feeder and coon/possums to boot. Find a coon hunter(s) and let them take care of business for you.

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Think about it, how much beer will an alcaholic drink??

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if there are alot of squirls or turkeys in the area they will do alot of damage. Also it depends on the amoutnt of deer