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Protein feed for deer? #8438285 07/18/25 01:17 PM 07/18/25 01:17 PM
Joined: Sep 2015 Livingston, Texas S Sheepdog1 OP trapper
Sheepdog1 OP trapper S Joined: Sep 2015 Livingston, Texas	I have been mixing a 19% and a 28% protein pellet combination for some deer here outside of my bedroom window. I started about 5 weeks ago when I had a rather large antlered buck show up with another older but smaller antlered buck. also feeding corn and milo/sorghum mixture as well. Plus my youngest brother has been bringing me tons of purple hull pea shells from his FIL's 57 acre high fence garden. I know that the 28% is pretty hot for deer but cutting it with the 19% in a 75/25 ratio may tame it down somewhat as they will ingest less of it. Just curious what you folks think. Savell has seen the pics and video of this buck so he knows what this joker is. but we wont post them.

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438302 07/18/25 02:15 PM 07/18/25 02:15 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 South shore L.I. G gcs trapper
gcs trapper G Joined: Dec 2006 South shore L.I.	It can't hurt I guess, minerals seem to help too....

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438314 07/18/25 02:32 PM 07/18/25 02:32 PM
Joined: Jan 2017 Marion Kansas Y Yes sir trapper
Yes sir trapper Y Joined: Jan 2017 Marion Kansas	Around here I can't get deer to eat anything early season unless its sweetened really good with molasses. Can't get them to eat corn until around the end of October. Just too many crops around for them to eat.

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438315 07/18/25 02:33 PM 07/18/25 02:33 PM
Joined: Apr 2009 South Ga - Almost Florida Swamp Wolf trapper
Swamp Wolf trapper Joined: Apr 2009 South Ga - Almost Florida	Savell knows about that buck??????? Thank God For Your Blessings! Never Half-Arse Anything! Resource Protection Service

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438320 07/18/25 02:43 PM 07/18/25 02:43 PM
Joined: Sep 2015 Livingston, Texas S Sheepdog1 OP trapper
Sheepdog1 OP trapper S Joined: Sep 2015 Livingston, Texas	I trust Savell with my life. I sent him the pictures because I was in shock a 4 year old buck was coming this close to my house, let alone how big this rascal is. I have never seen 4 year old buck in this part of Texas, not within a high fence that is this freaking large. Granted, I am fairly confident that when one of the many storms we had come through in the past 15 years, knocked down about of these wealthy folks fences and their darling bucks and doe exited said enclosure, then bred with native deer. That is the only explanation for this anomaly. there is no agriculture, like what we had 40-50 years ago with soybean fields everywhere. Its freaking pine trees and the timber companies are selling off that land faster than an obese person can find a buffet. As of last Saturday, the pictures I entered into a database through parks and wildlife via a game biologist, this buck right now is between 158" and 161". still has 4-5 weeks to grow.

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438322 07/18/25 02:47 PM 07/18/25 02:47 PM
Joined: Apr 2009 South Ga - Almost Florida Swamp Wolf trapper
Swamp Wolf trapper Joined: Apr 2009 South Ga - Almost Florida	Originally Posted by Sheepdog1 I trust Savell with my life. I sent him the pictures because I was in shock a 4 year old buck was coming this close to my house, let alone how big this rascal is. I have never seen 4 year old buck in this part of Texas, not within a high fence that is this freaking large. Granted, I am fairly confident that when one of the many storms we had come through in the past 15 years, knocked down about of these wealthy folks fences and their darling bucks and doe exited said enclosure, then bred with native deer. That is the only explanation for this anomaly. there is no agriculture, like what we had 40-50 years ago with soybean fields everywhere. Its freaking pine trees and the timber companies are selling off that land faster than an obese person can find a buffet. As of last Saturday, the pictures I entered into a database through parks and wildlife via a game biologist, this buck right now is between 158" and 161". still has 4-5 weeks to grow. Its that buck's life I'd be worrying about...lol Just kidding. I think Savell is mostly smoke & mirrors...even though he has a hundred buck racks hanging on his porch....probably mostly roadkill and skeletons he's found...lol Thank God For Your Blessings! Never Half-Arse Anything! Resource Protection Service

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438337 07/18/25 03:25 PM 07/18/25 03:25 PM
Joined: Sep 2015 Livingston, Texas S Sheepdog1 OP trapper
Sheepdog1 OP trapper S Joined: Sep 2015 Livingston, Texas	Nope, most of them are bow kills. aint no smoke and mirrors to Savell. he is a freaking great bowhunter. However, I did take him duck hunting a couple of times and we had a freaking blast. He tells folks I know how to holler them ducks in. we shot the poot outta the mallards. that was back when they still came down here. His life is in jeopardy but It is I that will be running a NAP killzone through him.

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438340 07/18/25 03:28 PM 07/18/25 03:28 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Coldspring Texas Savell "Wilbur"
Savell "Wilbur" Joined: Dec 2006 Coldspring Texas	…. When sheepdog blows a duck call you better be shooting or taking cover cause they’re coming in hot Insert profound nonsense here

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438342 07/18/25 03:30 PM 07/18/25 03:30 PM
Joined: Sep 2015 Livingston, Texas S Sheepdog1 OP trapper
Sheepdog1 OP trapper S Joined: Sep 2015 Livingston, Texas	Yep, we had a hoot on those hunts. learning how to call ducks is much more fun than shooting but I sure like duck and dressing.

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438455 07/18/25 06:48 PM 07/18/25 06:48 PM
Joined: Apr 2009 South Ga - Almost Florida Swamp Wolf trapper
Swamp Wolf trapper Joined: Apr 2009 South Ga - Almost Florida	I figured a while back that he was a pretty good hunter.....with most, if not all of those bucks taken on public land. That's impressive...not many folks can do that on public....me being one of em that cannot. Ive tagged some good bucks over the years, but nearly all of em were on private land. Thank God For Your Blessings! Never Half-Arse Anything! Resource Protection Service

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438465 07/18/25 07:02 PM 07/18/25 07:02 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Coldspring Texas Savell "Wilbur"
Savell "Wilbur" Joined: Dec 2006 Coldspring Texas	…. I leased a 100 acre pine thicket for years with smz through the middle that the deer traveled… killed a lot there … also had access to 500 acres of trinity river bottom from 12 years old to 20 .. killed a lot there…. Quite a few came from public land as well Uncle Swamp Insert profound nonsense here

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Savell] #8438606 07/18/25 10:36 PM 07/18/25 10:36 PM
Joined: Apr 2009 South Ga - Almost Florida Swamp Wolf trapper
Swamp Wolf trapper Joined: Apr 2009 South Ga - Almost Florida	Originally Posted by Savell …. I leased a 100 acre pine thicket for years with smz through the middle that the deer traveled… killed a lot there … also had access to 500 acres of trinity river bottom from 12 years old to 20 .. killed a lot there…. Quite a few came from public land as well Uncle Swamp Either private or public.....your basic methods of a stick and a hang-on in a thicket with buck sign sure does work. I do the same thing here....find a small opening in all this rough that has some good sign.....watch the wind....come in quietly... Out in the midwest, the concept is opposite.....you find a small thicket in all those open woods...the buck sign will be there.... Thank God For Your Blessings! Never Half-Arse Anything! Resource Protection Service

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438647 07/18/25 11:19 PM 07/18/25 11:19 PM
Joined: Dec 2006 Coldspring Texas Savell "Wilbur"
Savell "Wilbur" Joined: Dec 2006 Coldspring Texas	Yessir …. Get in kill em and get out….on to the next one … tags permitting of course lol Insert profound nonsense here

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438674 07/18/25 11:52 PM 07/18/25 11:52 PM
Joined: Mar 2014 Central Texas C Chancey trapper
Chancey trapper C Joined: Mar 2014 Central Texas	16% is all one need for good antler development for bucks, even during velvet growing season. For momma with multiple babies, she will need around 18+% in order to produce enough milk to maintain twins and sometimes triplets. It's not that the milk they produce is less quality, it is that they just don't produce enough on low protein diets to sustain the babies. Couple that with poor fawning cover in planted pine plantations, then predation skyrockets. Got to remember that every good buck was once a little tiny fawn and needed a healthy momma with good milk to get him going. Take care of momma and babies, and good bucks will come. Kill all coyotes, they wreck fawns and everything else in pine plantations surrounded by hay pasture. המשיח הוא המלך

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438738 07/19/25 01:04 AM 07/19/25 01:04 AM
Joined: Sep 2015 Livingston, Texas S Sheepdog1 OP trapper
Sheepdog1 OP trapper S Joined: Sep 2015 Livingston, Texas	I have three doe and they all have twins. once they started coming in the first thing I put out was a mineral mix i have used for years to help with lactation. then the protein. didnt take long for the bucks to appear. Not any coyotes around here. they die real fast.

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438862 07/19/25 08:29 AM 07/19/25 08:29 AM
Joined: Dec 2022 North Central WA. J Jingles trapper
Jingles trapper J Joined: Dec 2022 North Central WA.	Know a guy that knows a guy the offers Dry COB mixed 50/50 with 18% rabbit pellets for his resident yard ornament bucks for the does in the spring add 1/4 cup lactaid pellets in an ice cream bucket while able to scratch their heads and velvet covered antlers Last edited by Jingles; 07/19/25 08:32 AM. The job of a Patriot is not to protect his country but to protect the people from the tryannical government

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438870 07/19/25 08:39 AM 07/19/25 08:39 AM
Joined: Feb 2014 East Texas B BTLowry trapper
BTLowry trapper B Joined: Feb 2014 East Texas	Sounds like a stud of a buck Hope to see some pictures with you posing with him

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438900 07/19/25 09:31 AM 07/19/25 09:31 AM
Joined: Jan 2017 Marion Kansas Y Yes sir trapper
Yes sir trapper Y Joined: Jan 2017 Marion Kansas	Originally Posted by Sheepdog1 I trust Savell with my life. I sent him the pictures because I was in shock a 4 year old buck was coming this close to my house, let alone how big this rascal is. I have never seen 4 year old buck in this part of Texas, not within a high fence that is this freaking large. Granted, I am fairly confident that when one of the many storms we had come through in the past 15 years, knocked down about of these wealthy folks fences and their darling bucks and doe exited said enclosure, then bred with native deer. That is the only explanation for this anomaly. there is no agriculture, like what we had 40-50 years ago with soybean fields everywhere. Its freaking pine trees and the timber companies are selling off that land faster than an obese person can find a buffet. As of last Saturday, the pictures I entered into a database through parks and wildlife via a game biologist, this buck right now is between 158" and 161". still has 4-5 weeks to grow. Usually by now they are pretty much done growing, from here on out they are mineralizing Couple nice ones we've got in velvet Last edited by Yes sir; 07/19/25 09:36 AM.

Re: Protein feed for deer? [Re: Sheepdog1] #8438937 07/19/25 10:34 AM 07/19/25 10:34 AM
Joined: Sep 2015 Livingston, Texas S Sheepdog1 OP trapper
Sheepdog1 OP trapper S Joined: Sep 2015 Livingston, Texas	those are some dandies for certain

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