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<blockquote data-quote="Monk74" data-source="post: 5122424" data-attributes="member: 20601"><p>First I wanna say I like that on here a guy can speak his mind about various things and there's not much passive/ aggressive BS trying to make him feel stupid for his beliefs. So, how many studies of wild deer and the benefits of minerals are out there? I can't find a single one. Not being smart but,let me know. I try to read every university funded study on wildlife I can find. What I've found is ( outside of some sketchy radio collar data) it's impossible to track wild bucks and their potential antler growth year to year on a wildly variable diet. Also bucks have the ability to "bank " nutrients. I know cattle aren't wild animals but , they're fed scientific diets and still farmers know the importance of mineral supplements. They also graze on the same various plants as deer in TN. As for pen raised bucks. Actually they're more crowded and stressed(way more btw)than wild deer during the antler growth season. I agree with the Walmart deer corn thing. But high levels or calcium and phosphorus in mineral sites has to help does, fawns and the bucks you said are worn down from our over population of does as you talked about earlier this late winter. Btw an even mixture of soybean meal, black oil sunflower seeds, stabilized rice bran and cotton seed meal is expensive but the results show. I feed religiously January 10 through September 1. Again it's ok if we disagree just saying what I've saw happen to the deer on my properties.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Monk74, post: 5122424, member: 20601"] First I wanna say I like that on here a guy can speak his mind about various things and there’s not much passive/ aggressive BS trying to make him feel stupid for his beliefs. So, how many studies of wild deer and the benefits of minerals are out there? I can’t find a single one. Not being smart but,let me know. I try to read every university funded study on wildlife I can find. What I’ve found is ( outside of some sketchy radio collar data) it’s impossible to track wild bucks and their potential antler growth year to year on a wildly variable diet. Also bucks have the ability to “bank “ nutrients. I know cattle aren’t wild animals but , they’re fed scientific diets and still farmers know the importance of mineral supplements. They also graze on the same various plants as deer in TN. As for pen raised bucks. Actually they’re more crowded and stressed(way more btw)than wild deer during the antler growth season. I agree with the Walmart deer corn thing. But high levels or calcium and phosphorus in mineral sites has to help does, fawns and the bucks you said are worn down from our over population of does as you talked about earlier this late winter. Btw an even mixture of soybean meal, black oil sunflower seeds, stabilized rice bran and cotton seed meal is expensive but the results show. I feed religiously January 10 through September 1. Again it’s ok if we disagree just saying what I’ve saw happen to the deer on my properties. [/QUOTE]
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