#1953569 - 06/08/10 04:31 PM
Best Food Source
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TennesseeWhiskey
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Registered: 12/11/01
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In your opinion, what is the absolute best food source for
sustaining and attracting deer? Acorns, standing corn,
soybeans, alfalfa, hybrid rye grass, clover, etc., etc.?
Thanks in advance for all replies,
TennesseeWhiskey
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#1953592 - 06/08/10 05:00 PM
Re: Best Food Source
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Meateater
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Acorns and natural browse. From what I have seen, everything else is eye-candy for hunters.
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#1953698 - 06/08/10 07:20 PM
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BigGameGuy
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Early successional habitat. Why settle on giving the deer one course when they would much rather prefer a smorgasbord?
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#1953729 - 06/08/10 07:55 PM
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Hawk
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Early successional habitat.
Care to elaborate.
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#1953904 - 06/08/10 08:51 PM
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richmanbarbeque
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BGG, I agree with your post but my only question is what grasses are you talking about?
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#1953927 - 06/08/10 09:04 PM
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tndrbstr
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BGG, I agree with your post but my only question is what grasses are you talking about?
just guessin but I would say BGG might be talkin about native bunch grasses, like blue stem and switch grass. oak ridge wma, and probably others, are lettin a lot of natural grasses take over under power lines and other openings to cut down on maint cost as I understand it.....
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#1953953 - 06/08/10 09:19 PM
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Boone 58
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Acorns........
then grains where available.
Quality browse is hard to beat but Acorns are da bomb.
Then i would rank cat brier and honeysuckle and blackberry as the most common eaten where i hunt in wayne county. It is plentiful and usually everywehere you find cutover. Staghorn sumac is also very common and very eaten....
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#1954022 - 06/08/10 10:07 PM
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Setterman
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Early successional habitat. Why settle on giving the deer one course when they would much rather prefer a smorgasbord?
Agreed, it is available most of the year and provides plenty of nutrients as well.
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#1954393 - 06/09/10 11:36 AM
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Football Hunter
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Acorns.....and poke salad
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