Considerations for Winter deer feeding
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I thought this is kind of interesting: https://dnr.wi.gov/topic/wildlifehabitat/documents/winterdeerfeeding.pdfI did a little research on the winter corn feeding topic, since I hear of a lot of people in Wi feeding corn. 1 thing that kind of stands out to me is the apparent possibility of deer getting something called acidosis from too much winter corn eating. I heard that deer that aren't used to farm crops are at more risk from winter corn feeding (i.e. such as the Central FOREST). I guess it can result in death, some biologists claim. It mentions something about how predators may 'gang' up on deer feeding stations. Makes some sense I suppose.
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Re: Considerations for Winter deer feeding
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I’ve witnessed white tailed deer killed by well intentioned winter feeding a few times. Acidosis and enterotoxemia are not pleasant ailments.
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Re: Considerations for Winter deer feeding
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Unless there is 5 feet of snow then feeding the deer is a waste of money. They are adept at finding the food they need to survive but deer are a huge market in regards to every aspect now. I suspect people want to feed them to keep them in the area year-round for easy targets next season and those who just want to look at deer in their backyards every day as if they have never seen one before. I believe it is more detrimental to most wildlife (not including birds) to feed them for any reason other than severe winter extremes that would prevent them from finding food on their own.
I have never and will never use bait of any kind in the pursuit of deer, it is just like a canned hunt IMHO.
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Re: Considerations for Winter deer feeding
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Unless there is 5 feet of snow then feeding the deer is a waste of money. They are adept at finding the food they need to survive but deer are a huge market in regards to every aspect now. I suspect people want to feed them to keep them in the area year-round for easy targets next season and those who just want to look at deer in their backyards every day as if they have never seen one before. I believe it is more detrimental to most wildlife (not including birds) to feed them for any reason other than severe winter extremes that would prevent them from finding food on their own.
I have never and will never use bait of any kind in the pursuit of deer, it is just like a canned hunt IMHO. Introducing feed to a population late in the winter season is a guaranteed way for feed to kill animals.
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Re: Considerations for Winter deer feeding
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Things have to be pretty tough for deer to eat corn.
There Is a 30 acre standing corn field where I'm snaring coyotes and today after that fresh snow there wasn't a deer track to be found any where near that field.
I know In the past the WI DNR would go out and cut down cedar In the north woods to feed the deer.
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Re: Considerations for Winter deer feeding
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i believe its illegal to feed them here in Minnesota, as it causes them to gather to one area, and may help promote the spreading of CWD. From what I understand it is only illegal in the CWD zones and is legal all over after Feb 28th for some reason.
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Re: Considerations for Winter deer feeding
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Things have to be pretty tough for deer to eat corn.
There Is a 30 acre standing corn field where I'm snaring coyotes and today after that fresh snow there wasn't a deer track to be found any where near that field.
I know In the past the WI DNR would go out and cut down cedar In the north woods to feed the deer. Your kidding right?
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Re: Considerations for Winter deer feeding
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Not much corn up in my country, but the couple of fields that are here won't have a cob left in them by March .
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Re: Considerations for Winter deer feeding
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Things have to be pretty tough for deer to eat corn.
There Is a 30 acre standing corn field where I'm snaring coyotes and today after that fresh snow there wasn't a deer track to be found any where near that field.
I know In the past the WI DNR would go out and cut down cedar In the north woods to feed the deer. Our deer must be smarter, I can show you some stand corn fields and corn stubble that have a pile of deer in them.
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Things have to be pretty tough for deer to eat corn.
There Is a 30 acre standing corn field where I'm snaring coyotes and today after that fresh snow there wasn't a deer track to be found any where near that field.
I know In the past the WI DNR would go out and cut down cedar In the north woods to feed the deer. Our deer must be smarter, I can show you some stand corn fields and corn stubble that have a pile of deer in them. same here...
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Re: Considerations for Winter deer feeding
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No corn around me for miles. So what I do is buy 7 or 8 bales of alfalfa and put it out through out winter. They seem to like it.
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Re: Considerations for Winter deer feeding
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I read it has to do with the bacteria that is in a deer stomach. If the don't have the correct bacteria to digest corn they can't. The deer in Texas must have the correct fauna in their gut cause they eat tons of corn at the deer feeders down there.
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