vabuckbuster
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On an average day of say 80 degrees, Does a deer drink every day....and if so how often per day?
deer drinking. How often...
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Trevor2
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I've heard they get 80% of their water from vegetation. But I'm no biologist
ADR
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Depends on how stressful the day was!
BallisticV
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Ha ha haADR said:
156p&y
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Very rarely imo, I've been checking the only water sources I can find and the traffic at these spots is slim even in this drought. I did notice this year that the deer have hit the persimmons harder than usual. I suspect it's due to the moisture in the fruit, I do expect this pattern to change with the coming rain and they will probably only hit acorns since there is about a billion on the ground.
barkscaler
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156p&y said:
They are wearing the persimmons out like never before on my farm too.
BSK
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Trevor2 said:
This is correct. Deer exist in regions that have no standing water at all. In these situations, deer can subsist completely on water in the vegetation they eat.
Now if free-standing water exists, they will use it. But they don't need it to survive.
Kingston
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I have a creek on my property with a treestand built directly over it. In extremely dry years I have witnessed deer come off of the mtn above and stand in the creek and drink water for up to five minutes. With more normal or wet years they rarely even stop when crossing it.
I thought this was a BEER drinking topic!
Deer get a small portion of the water requirement from surface water. The bulk comes from dew and the liquid content of browse. However, I have found this to be handy from time to time.
If you are in the right area where bucks are aggressively chasing does and you see it. if there is a secluded pond in the area, one with good cover. It may be a tremendous midday stand site. Bucks that have been hard chasing, do tend to drink from surface water more often and especially so in warmer weather during the midday.
Other than that, setting up on a water source in the hopes a deer will come to drink is usually not too productive.
On the other hand, deer love to play shallow water and soft, wet mud. We had a stand in IA set up on a mud hole in a logging road that produced a good buck every year. The same is true of a wet sawdust pile.
If you are in the right area where bucks are aggressively chasing does and you see it. if there is a secluded pond in the area, one with good cover. It may be a tremendous midday stand site. Bucks that have been hard chasing, do tend to drink from surface water more often and especially so in warmer weather during the midday.
Other than that, setting up on a water source in the hopes a deer will come to drink is usually not too productive.
On the other hand, deer love to play shallow water and soft, wet mud. We had a stand in IA set up on a mud hole in a logging road that produced a good buck every year. The same is true of a wet sawdust pile.
11:45, 66-degrees, heart of the chasing phase in the Midwest.
Urban_Hunter
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When I first started hunting I thought the pond was the place to be... Hunted it a lot and not one time did I see anything drink out of it. See them cross creeks all the time without even pausing. They are like Camels
