Feeding Apples To Deer
 

Hey guys, any of y'all feed deer apples. The deer around here love them, and it is great because I love to watch wildlife. The deer around here are always eating them off the trees and we let them, the meat tastes so good with such a great diet, it tastes better than beef. the deer get bulky with apple fat which makes the meat tastes good.

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Nothing wrong with that.

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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).

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Around here in Texas there are no apple trees around. Throwing out apples here will likely scare deer away as they have no idea what it is.

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I don't doubt what you say but why wouldn't the deer investigate the apples? They would certainly smell them. Why won't the deer finally feed on apples, once they discovered it presented no threat and was indeed a tasty treat?

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Not so sure on that. Where I live in Canada, we have no apple trees, yet deer love them if I put them out.

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Yep I've fed apples a few times. We have apple trees at home and you have to pick up the apples before you mow so instead of throwing them out in the field and going to no use I bag them up and take them out to the woods and put them out in front of my trail cam. the deer love apples. Now about the fat question. Apples don't have fat in them but they do provide large quantities of sugar to the deer which they would not normally have in their system so the buildup of sugar in their system could lead to an increase in caloric intake and therefore an increase in fat. Although if you have corn in your area I could see a larger increase in fat due to intake of corn over intake of apples because corn is higher in lipids (fat). and yes corn fed deer taste better than deer that live in a pine forest at least from the deer I've tasted I can vouch for this.

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Its just that I have tried all kinds of bait including apples and they never touch anything other than corn. I tried a scent wick one time and had a doe come in and went up to the wick and sniffed and then bolted snorting and making all kinds of racket.
Dont know if its true but one guy told me he baits with nacho cheese doritos and says deer love it.

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Well doritos are made of corn so it is a possibility but i don't really feel like feeding deer perfectly good chips i could eat myself

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+1!, as far as that goes, I dont want no deer eating my apples![:@]

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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.

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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.

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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

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Fruit doesnt have any fat content. Its fruit. Obviously you can get fat from eating a bunch of fruit. But you'd have to eat so much that your teeth would fall out before you could actually gain anything. And even then you'd be gaining weight from the intake of carbohydrates in a simple sugar known as fructose. An overindulgence in any of the three calorie bases will end with weight gain. Even an overabundance of protein will go unused by the body and be stored as fat. The nutrition facts can be misleading because people think things with no fat content (pop, koolaid, etc) wont make them fat. Obviously its not always just the fat calories that get you. Anyways, thats neither here nor there, just wanted to clear that up.

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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

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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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all the time!