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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5296600" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>The "Deer Corn" people buy in Tennessee is illegal to be sold in Texas. Never mind that aflatoxin may be less an issue in Texas due to their more arid climate. With our high humidity in TN, even livestock-grade corn often develops aflatoxin after it's been laying on the ground a few days or stored in a humid environment.</p><p></p><p>Aflatoxin seldom kills deer, but it usually makes them "sick", more likely to get sicker from something else, and more likely to be caught by a predator. Actually, <u>any stationary feeding location can quickly increase fawn predation</u>. This is particularly true of button buck fawns around feeding stations. <u>Just because you don't find the fawn bone piles doesn't mean they didn't die before reaching a year of age</u>.</p><p></p><p>Deer under a year of age have the highest mortality rates of any age class.</p><p>Yet how often have you found the skeletal remains of a fawn? Never?</p><p>This is because the bones of young deer are not that "hard" and quickly disintegrate and/or get eaten (unlike adult deer bones).</p><p></p><p>Aflatoxin corn is particularly deadly to birds.</p><p>The smaller the bird, the more deadly a single kernel, which can kill an adult turkey.</p><p>One kernel.</p><p></p><p>IMO, aflatoxin corn has been a significant factor in the near extinction of bobwhite quail in TN. As more people began using feeders loaded with "deer corn", they contributed to the reduction in quail numbers. I've also seen entire flocks of turkeys wiped out by a single bag of "deer corn".</p><p></p><p>Deny it all you want, but your only kidding yourself if you think aflatoxin isn't a risk, the corn feeding often doing more harm than good overall. The aflatoxin risk is minimized with standing corn in a field as well as corn remaining on the cob. So a food plot of corn doesn't have the risk of a bag of corn.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5296600, member: 1409"] The "Deer Corn" people buy in Tennessee is illegal to be sold in Texas. Never mind that aflatoxin may be less an issue in Texas due to their more arid climate. With our high humidity in TN, even livestock-grade corn often develops aflatoxin after it's been laying on the ground a few days or stored in a humid environment. Aflatoxin seldom kills deer, but it usually makes them "sick", more likely to get sicker from something else, and more likely to be caught by a predator. Actually, [U]any stationary feeding location can quickly increase fawn predation[/U]. This is particularly true of button buck fawns around feeding stations. [U]Just because you don't find the fawn bone piles doesn't mean they didn't die before reaching a year of age[/U]. Deer under a year of age have the highest mortality rates of any age class. Yet how often have you found the skeletal remains of a fawn? Never? This is because the bones of young deer are not that "hard" and quickly disintegrate and/or get eaten (unlike adult deer bones). Aflatoxin corn is particularly deadly to birds. The smaller the bird, the more deadly a single kernel, which can kill an adult turkey. One kernel. IMO, aflatoxin corn has been a significant factor in the near extinction of bobwhite quail in TN. As more people began using feeders loaded with "deer corn", they contributed to the reduction in quail numbers. I've also seen entire flocks of turkeys wiped out by a single bag of "deer corn". Deny it all you want, but your only kidding yourself if you think aflatoxin isn't a risk, the corn feeding often doing more harm than good overall. The aflatoxin risk is minimized with standing corn in a field as well as corn remaining on the cob. So a food plot of corn doesn't have the risk of a bag of corn. [/QUOTE]
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