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Post by bowbum on Feb 14, 2016 13:27:38 GMT -5
We've been putting corn out and it didn't take long to draw a crowd. they know at approximately what time we finish our days work and throw the corn. They now show up and stand and wait until we feed them. Our high count was 19 baldies a couple of nights ago.   |
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Post by GlennD on Feb 14, 2016 18:51:09 GMT -5
Easy to habituate ungulates. I have seen them come running when a metal coffee can of corn was shaken.  |
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Post by dennyf on Feb 15, 2016 9:05:41 GMT -5
Guy on the other side of the woods out back, has been feeding corn for years. When his son was about 4 or 5, the kid would stand on the back porch after dad had spread some corn near the woods and rattle a metal can w/corn in it. Deer popped outta the woods within a few minutes. He puts some out almost all year, except once plants/trees have sprouted in the spring. There are still a few corn fields within less than a half mile of us, so the deer in all the scattered woodlots around here are used to corn. No sound effects needed behind our place. Deer come out here every late afternoon, looking for whatever is available, but not in the numbers the other feller gets over on his side. Unless I cut some winter browse, then they all collect here until the "good stuff" has been consumed. The winter I trimmed up a partially-fallen maple out back and piled the trimmings along the field, deer were here for weeks and the corn feeder jokingly accused me of stealing "his" deer.  |
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Post by bowbum on Feb 15, 2016 9:11:53 GMT -5
The winter I trimmed up a partially-fallen maple out back and piled the trimmings along the field, deer were here for weeks and the corn feeder jokingly accused me of stealing "his" deer. I dropped a rather large maple tree and also a fire cherry a couple of weeks ago and was surprised to see, almost immediately, how the deer fed on the tips of the branches. |
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Post by dennyf on Feb 15, 2016 9:52:46 GMT -5
They really go nuts over piles of trimmings during the winter. Literally here all hours of the day and night working on those maple trimmings, until all the buds and tender parts were gone. If I trim our apple trees in early march and pile the results out back, same thing. I keep the piles small and scattered, so they can easily get at the good stuff.
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Post by bowbum on Feb 15, 2016 10:03:12 GMT -5
Yeah, I didn't even have my saws put away before they were into the tops.
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Post by cspot on Feb 15, 2016 18:03:59 GMT -5
No handouts here but here is a local group getting their evening meal. This is in a pasture field. Not sure what they eat but the feed a lot in it during the winter. Not too much the rest of the year.  |
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