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<blockquote data-quote="BSK" data-source="post: 5712232" data-attributes="member: 17"><p>You may be looking at a Swamp White Oak or Swamp Chestnut Oak, but those grow primarily in wet bottomlands.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Red variety oak acorns have more tannin in them than white variety oak acorns, which makes them taste bitter. However, that tannin prevents the acorn from going to root until spring. White variety acorns have less tannin and are more preferred by deer unless there are no whites or after the white variety go to root (usually in late November or early December depending on rainfall). So deer prefer the white varieties in fall up until the white's go to root in late fall or early winter. After that, the deer subsist on red variety acorns through the winter.</p><p></p><p>This makes the white variety oaks more of draw for deer hunters through November, as well as an incredible source of fats for energy during the rut. But red varieties are what carry deer through the winter. Both sets of species play an important role in the fall/winter food source equation.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BSK, post: 5712232, member: 17"] You may be looking at a Swamp White Oak or Swamp Chestnut Oak, but those grow primarily in wet bottomlands. Red variety oak acorns have more tannin in them than white variety oak acorns, which makes them taste bitter. However, that tannin prevents the acorn from going to root until spring. White variety acorns have less tannin and are more preferred by deer unless there are no whites or after the white variety go to root (usually in late November or early December depending on rainfall). So deer prefer the white varieties in fall up until the white's go to root in late fall or early winter. After that, the deer subsist on red variety acorns through the winter. This makes the white variety oaks more of draw for deer hunters through November, as well as an incredible source of fats for energy during the rut. But red varieties are what carry deer through the winter. Both sets of species play an important role in the fall/winter food source equation. [/QUOTE]
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