Alfalfa. Grass has no benefit- except they may bed on it.
Corn is just fine as long as there’s corn in the area they have been eating. They simply need the bacteria in their stomachs for digestion of corn. If u got picked corn around - u are just fine!!! The only folks that’s really an issue…. Say u in a forested area. Or in some big pasture area…. Deer stressed & hungry & been living on low quality sparse natural browse…. U throw out a corn pile- can kill em. Corn growing areas- no problem.
If folks want “free food for deer” & “free excercise”…. & the best food… go find hickory stands where the trees are growing about 10x thicker than they should be. Dump the clusters over with a chain saw leaving the best poles (crop tree release). Or elms. Or any “poor quality tree” competing with great trees. Those fresh buds on the ground - loaded with digestible premium nutrition!!!
Corn is just fine as long as there’s corn in the area they have been eating. They simply need the bacteria in their stomachs for digestion of corn. If u got picked corn around - u are just fine!!! The only folks that’s really an issue…. Say u in a forested area. Or in some big pasture area…. Deer stressed & hungry & been living on low quality sparse natural browse…. U throw out a corn pile- can kill em. Corn growing areas- no problem.
If folks want “free food for deer” & “free excercise”…. & the best food… go find hickory stands where the trees are growing about 10x thicker than they should be. Dump the clusters over with a chain saw leaving the best poles (crop tree release). Or elms. Or any “poor quality tree” competing with great trees. Those fresh buds on the ground - loaded with digestible premium nutrition!!!
Thinkin Rut
PMA Member
I worked the corn between the flakes of the bale of alfalfa and put them on south facing hillsides. Before the storm I added protein pellets 50/50 with corn. They would eat the corn prior to the snow but seemed more focused on the brassica bulbs and rye. After tomorrow, I'll lay some trees over when it warms up a bit.
LoessHillsArcher
PMA Member
I love doing that - deer go nuts over that stuff instantly. Find sheds the next weekend sometimes even!