Corn consumption

[Football Hunter]

I live in Spartanburg now, but deer are deer, in my little plot ,a 50 lb bag of corn doesn't last 24 hours seems strange to me, plenty of rain, everything is lush and green.
Thoughts?
This has happened for weeks now, surprised.

 

[Specializedjon]

Happens on my property too. I relate it to having a refrigerator full of food, then someone opens a bag of Doritos....they're gone quickly.

Anytime we introduce a treat to them, they'll indulge for sure. Same applies to salt licks and those "granular blocks". They smoke'em

 

[Hduke86]

Do you have a camera on it? If not then raccoons and turkeys can clean it to bare ground over night

 

[BPhunter]

I live in Spartanburg now, but deer are deer, in my little plot ,a 50 lb bag of corn doesn't last 24 hours seems strange to me, plenty of rain, everything is lush and green.
Thoughts?
This has happened for weeks now, surprised.

Corn has a natural sweetness to it.

 

[MickThompson]

Raccoons

 

[BSK]

Corn is like candy to lots of animals, especially deer. The only thing that seems to outdraw corn is acorns.

 

[rifle02]

The last time I put out corn I threw approximately 15 lb in front of a camera within hours there was 15,000 crows. I'm exaggerating but there were at least 40 crows.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

That's why is so effective for poachers. I feed to watch wildlife from my house. They just eat it up.

 

[BPhunter]

We especially put out during winter month. Snows can get pretty bad here.
I should have said, it is in a contained feeder. Although we do have very low humidity here.

 

[Iglow]

I live in Spartanburg now, but deer are deer, in my little plot ,a 50 lb bag of corn doesn't last 24 hours seems strange to me, plenty of rain, everything is lush and green.
Thoughts?
This has happened for weeks now, surprised.

Coons, once the find it they'll eat more than the deer.

 

[backyardtndeer]

I would agree with those saying raccoons are hammering your corn. You may have half the coons in your county coming to your corn pile. They find it quick and can clean it out in no time.

 

[Doecrusher]

Coons. Its been a few years since i put out any but the last time i did i had atleast 10 coons on the trail camera all in the same picture. Said heck with that..

 

[BPhunter]

Coons. Its been a few years since i put out any but the last time i did i had atleast 10 coons on the trail camera all in the same picture. Said heck with that..

We're talking about animals here, right?

 

[BSK]

Coons. Its been a few years since i put out any but the last time i did i had atleast 10 coons on the trail camera all in the same picture. Said heck with that..

I try to dissuade clients from feeding corn in summer, but some still do, and some use corn to run their baited late-summer census. I try to work with them to set up the safest corn feeding stations possible, but I've got summer census camera pictures of so many coons piled into their feeders that it looks like a coon zombie apocalypse.

 

[TheLBLman]

I totally stopped using corn many years ago.
IMO, more liability than asset, from an overall perspective.

 

[TNTreeman]

EVERYTHING loves corn. Coons, possums , crows, turkeys, etc. Deer are probably the last ones getting the scraps . This is what I encountered when I ran feeders and cameras to see my inventory of bucks. I get more quality pics on minerals.

 

[Planking]

I keep a couple of dps with dry dog food in it around my feeder when im trying to trap hogs. Not seeing much of anything at the feeder right now but coons just keep pouring in.

 

[Spurhunter]

Football Hunter! That's a blast from the past. Haven't seen you here in years. Welcome back.

 

[rifle02]

I haven't seen a coon on any of my cameras for months. Maybe not since about this time last year. Coyotes? You bet. I think they are why I see no Coons. They probably ate every one of them!

 

[redblood]

I will never feed another kernel unless the combine spills it in one of my fields. Just not cost effective