Feeding Apples To Deer
#11
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: The forests and farmland of Ohio
Posts: 625
RE: Feeding Apples To Deer
hoss do you eat the apples that fall off the tree and become rotten. I prefer to feed the apples to the deer after 2-3 days of being sacked up because they are more aromatic allowing the deer to smell them more easily. I don't eat the rotten apples so I might as well feed them to the deer.
#12
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: NW Oklahoma
Posts: 1,166
RE: Feeding Apples To Deer
I have put out apples on my property and there aren't any apple trees for miles. If they scare the deer, they aren't scared long. Pears are even better. If you can find some old pear trees around and pick up pears off the ground, brown ones and all, put in a bucket with some corn and chop up, deer go crazy over it.
#13
RE: Feeding Apples To Deer
i've almost every fruit and vegatable growing on farms around me to deer, i worked on organic farm that had a big farm stand, and i'd take anything they wouldn't put out so august and september my deer had a little of everything, but they liked the apples the most
#14
RE: Feeding Apples To Deer
ORIGINAL: uncle matt
Well I don't know about the fat content of apples doing anything for the flavor as you would be hard pressed to find afruit lower in fat. Apples have an extremely low fat content. But I do agree apples somehow bring a nice flavor to the meat. I believe it is from the many vitamins and minerals that apples hold - especially the skin.
When I was youngermy family owned someapple andpear orchards in Southern Illinois that we hunted.Needless to say the deer were plentiful (and tasty).
Well I don't know about the fat content of apples doing anything for the flavor as you would be hard pressed to find afruit lower in fat. Apples have an extremely low fat content. But I do agree apples somehow bring a nice flavor to the meat. I believe it is from the many vitamins and minerals that apples hold - especially the skin.
When I was youngermy family owned someapple andpear orchards in Southern Illinois that we hunted.Needless to say the deer were plentiful (and tasty).
#15
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: New Jersey
Posts: 56
RE: Feeding Apples To Deer
I have used them in Jersey and they work great my problem was that they are expensive unless you buy a bin and then you have to store them, they do spoil fast and the bee's are a nightmare.But they are great
#16
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Posts: 132
RE: Feeding Apples To Deer
I have many apple trees on my 25 acres here in northeast pa. and the deer love them.there has not to many yrs. that i didnt get a nice buck hunting near these apple trees.and yes the meat definately tastes real good but nothing like beef.
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