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Title: What are your deer eating??
Post by: TIM B on December 12, 2015, 02:28:00 PM
With the warm weather and the grass growing I've noticed my deer are eating a lot of cool-season grasses.  Especially at night when I'm driving.
What are your deer feeding on?
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Post by: ISP 5353 on December 12, 2015, 02:37:00 PM
Cut corn fields....
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Post by: bucknut on December 12, 2015, 04:03:00 PM
I killed one a couple weeks ago and it was full of hedge apple.
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Post by: Hopewell Tom on December 12, 2015, 04:46:00 PM
Wild apples. This was a big crop year here and there's many trees still holding some.
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Post by: Robertfishes on December 12, 2015, 05:04:00 PM
acorns are still dropping here. We had a wet summer and no frost or cold weather so far.
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Post by: meathead on December 12, 2015, 05:16:00 PM
I had 8 deer feeding in one of my turnip patches yesterday evening.
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Post by: drewsbow on December 12, 2015, 06:54:00 PM
corn , beans, apples , acorns , beech nuts they have it all this year , mast crop was very heavy this year.
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Post by: northener on December 12, 2015, 07:12:00 PM
Green grass and pumpkins from Halloween we threw into our rubbish pile.
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Post by: RedShaft on December 12, 2015, 07:30:00 PM
I have no clue. We had a really bad mast. Like almost no acorns. If they don't go to a field somewhere they are eating browse n it's going to be a rough winter on them. The deer I got had very little fat reserve.
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Post by: BAK on December 12, 2015, 07:31:00 PM
Soy beans and corn in the harvested fields.
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Post by: mwosborn on December 12, 2015, 09:08:00 PM
Beans, corn, browse.
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Post by: Friend on December 12, 2015, 09:41:00 PM
Buck Oats, Chickory and Winter Wheat to name a few.
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Post by: kleine on December 12, 2015, 09:46:00 PM
Mine are eating 7 acres of standing corn I put in for them and the turkeys
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Post by: dhermon85 on December 12, 2015, 10:05:00 PM
The one I got this year was full of corn. Think it was out of the neighboring property's feeder!   :)
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Post by: kbetts on December 12, 2015, 11:13:00 PM
Browse, lots of green.  They're in the picked corn fields but mainly for the grasses.  Caught one bedded up the other day after I watched it cruise along some honey suckle.

I'm watching anything with new growth.
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Post by: Petrichor on December 13, 2015, 07:10:00 AM
Corn and rye grass
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Post by: VA Elite on December 13, 2015, 07:35:00 AM
anything green it seems.
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Post by: dirtguy on December 13, 2015, 08:59:00 AM
Tons of acorns!
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Post by: maineac on December 13, 2015, 09:27:00 AM
Not sure.  Watched a button buck pulling something out from under oak leaves last night.  Looked pale green yellow, so I am assuming old fobs covered by leaves. Our acorn mast crop was spotty, and most have already been eaten.  Apples were good, but likewise becoming limited. Almost no agriculture, so browse and whatever else the can piece together.
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Post by: Tajue17 on December 13, 2015, 08:00:00 PM
whatever their eating here Its not growing in my spots 8^(
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Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on December 13, 2015, 08:04:00 PM
There is a Ton of acorns yet.  I noticed a  lot of browsing sign where I hunt.  I have one more weekend to put it together.
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Post by: Warden609 on December 13, 2015, 08:26:00 PM
Hedge apples are getting hit pretty hard right now. Not much mast around me this year.
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Post by: Blackstick on December 14, 2015, 02:33:00 AM
Genetically modified corn. Starting to wonder how healthy it is to eat Indiana deer.
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Post by: bucknut on December 14, 2015, 10:05:00 PM
I have noticed a lot of deer eating moss off of old fallen logs recently.  Absolutely no acorn mast this year where I live.
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Post by: flyflinger on December 15, 2015, 06:36:00 AM
I had a group of 8 does feasting on honey locust seed pods last weds evening. I had no idea they ate these things. I think I just found a new food source to hunt over!
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Post by: stagetek on December 15, 2015, 05:49:00 PM
My neighbors corn pile! Actually, we had a very good acorn crop in Central WI. this past fall, saw plenty of deer feeding in the hardwoods.