Question about my oats

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impactarcher

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Planted generic oats Sept 1st and they are looking fantastic. Fertilzed them heavy and they are about 5" tall, basically a lush salad bar for the deer. I also overseeded with Alice clover and it too is coming along nicely. My question: The deer are only eating my tiny clover and not even touching the oats. I thought deer just loved oats so I am stumped. A couple hundred yards away I've got rye planted and they are hitting it really good but the oats, well they are sticking their nose up at them. What gives?? STEVE
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: steveolson</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Planted generic oats Sept 1st and they are looking fantastic. Fertilzed them heavy and they are about 5" tall, basically a lush salad bar for the deer. I also overseeded with Alice clover and it too is coming along nicely. My question: The deer are only eating my tiny clover and not even touching the oats. I thought deer just loved oats so I am stumped. A couple hundred yards away I've got rye planted and they are hitting it really good but the oats, well they are sticking their nose up at them. What gives?? STEVE </div></div>

Your deer are weird!! /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

Gieesh! I haven't seen deer turn up there noses at any cereal grains so I really can't say. They always eat my oats to the ground!

Only thing I can think of is that the Alice is like candy to them right now....small and tender and hi protien!

Remember...they don't have a "Mom" telling them..."Now eat your vegetables first!!"... /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/grin.gif

They can eat whatever they darn well choose and they already know which food is best for them......... /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif
 
I have some oats, AWP, and a few soybeans in a small plot. Beans are all nipped off, the AWP and oats aren't getting touched. I just hope the AWP become attractive at some point, maybe the oats will get hit once the acorns are gone if it hasn't frosted too hard yet.
 
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