Deer

[metalbender]

Feeding time for my deerest friends

 

[WM75Guy]

Pretty pictures. Around here the deer have to compete with the hogs when a feeder goes off.

 

[metalbender]

This is outside my kitchen window. I spread out a bucket of feed, just enough to give them a snack. No hogs in this area yet. If they come around, I'll be ready with some little lead pills right out the kitchen window.

 

[Mazeppa]

We also love to supplement feed the deer on our place. It is our hope they will figure out our home is a safe zone for them.

I hope you're not using typical bait food - "corn."

 

[ovrszd]

Not intending to derail the thread. It's all about wildlife.

I gather road kill Deer and put the carcass in my CRP fields for the Eagles to feed on.

 

[ovrszd]

 

[Mazeppa]

That's pretty cool. Unfortunately, I have more coyotes than eagles but I could certainly use a deceased Bambi to bait those killers.

 

[nybirdman]

Good gesture ,we plant food plots also.We have had a couple soybean bales fall off a truck and roll all the way to the wood-lot;about 1/2 mile.

 

[Doughknob]

 

[arizona98tj]

Thanks to CWD in a nearby county, state DNR has prohibited feeding in the county I live in. All of the cases, as far as I know, originated in commercial deer farms....which received infected deer from other commercial farms. The guy in the nearby county had some of his deer die from CWD so the jackwad dumped the carcasses on county property. Nothing like helping spread the disease.

 

[TractorGuy]

Nice bunch of deer. We don't see that many at a time.

I feed mine in a trough sos not to have corn sour on the ground. Got rid of our hogs a few years back and don't see any need in inviting them back.

 

[metalbender]

I get screenings from the local seed cleaning plant, usually peas. Last year I bought a half bag of feed oats to mix in. This fall he had a 1700 lb bag for me. Had to blade the driveway today to clean up the poo.

 

[Thomas]

 

[gasman1075]

I have been gathering pumpkins from my farmer neighbors field and dumping them in my field for the deer. We get 6-8 every morning and dusk.

 

[ovrszd]

That's pretty cool. Unfortunately, I have more coyotes than eagles but I could certainly use a deceased Bambi to bait those killers.

 

[oosik]

The deer move thru my property and clean up the weed seed heads. The coyotes follow and snag any laxing mice or chipmunks.

Still trying to train those darn turkeys. DON'T poo in my yard.

 

[ovrszd]

The "go to" spot here is our Pear tree in the backyard. This pic was taken out of our back door.

 

[oosik]

That's very handy - ovrszd. You don't have to clean up all the mess under the tree.

 

[ovrszd]

That's very handy - ovrszd. You don't have to clean up all the mess under the tree.

Yep. That pic was late and they about had everything ate up.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

There's always deer around my place too,

We like seeing them, and it's handy to have them around in deer season too.

SR