Oats question

[remington]

What's the chances of deer not liking oats at all?

Everything I have ever seen said deer love oats,but the one time the farmer planted them on the farm I hunt we barely seen a deer in the field. This is a field that we always see deer in no matter whats planted there. That one year we had oats grow to about knee high by Dec and I think we killed one doe there that was just walking across the field. I could see it if we had a killer acorn crop or corn,soybeans,or peanuts planted but we didn't just cotton.
SO whats the chances that the deer on this farm just flat out don't like oats?

 

[muddyboots]

Id say there are not many deer on that farm.

 

[CWT]

What time of you did you plant them? The earlier you plant the longer the growing time. This will make them tall and tough by the time you want the deer in them and not palitable for deer.
Just a thought.

 

[remington]

Id say there are not many deer on that farm.

There more deer here than there are fly's at a barbeque. I can tell ya this, soybeans don't stand a chance unless there planted on a field bigger than 5acres. One year the farmer didn't have enough beans to harvest off a 9 acre field.

They planted them the first week in Sept if I recall.Our rifle season begins mid Oct and do remember the Oats were about 7"-8" tall then so maybe they were planted a lil early.