Bait, corn etc.

hunter 740 · Post by **hunter 740** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:07 pm

I use ear corn the turkeys cant wipe it out as easliy and the deer have to work harder to get a belly full so you have more time to be selective.

sullyy · Post by **sullyy** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:29 pm

Can you get carrots in bulk like you can corn? I know they work well, but I'd hate to have to buy them at the grocery store....

LondonDave · Post by **LondonDave** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:30 pm

sullyy wrote:Can you get carrots in bulk like you can corn? I know they work well, but I'd hate to have to buy them at the grocery store....

Farmer's Markets usually sell them by the bushell.

Dave

whitetailmad · Post by **whitetailmad** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:10 pm

A lot of you are using apples I would like to use them myself. Where are you getting them from. Are you getting seconds from some where? I can see my self going in no-frills and buying 10 bags lol.

mikej · Post by **mikej** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:31 pm

orchards will sell you ground apples

flbuckmaster · Post by **flbuckmaster** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:18 pm

I feed corn and soy beans side by side down here. The deer overwhelmingly perfer the soybeans. Neither of which are grown locally.
here is an example...the pipe feeder in this picture has corn in it, the soybeans are scattered over the area from a spin feeder above. As you can see, these deer are eating only the soybeans.

jay

saxman · Post by **saxman** » Wed Nov 19, 2008 10:22 pm

I'm using corn.
I put it out PRN untill I see hog tracks and then I stop and move my set up.
Vermon

Fishn-Hunter · Post by **Fishn-Hunter** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 1:30 am

I was told by an MNR officer that it is better for the deer if you mix some kind of grain/oats with whole corn. Apparently there is alot of starch in corn so the grain helps them diggest and poop.
Fishn-Hunter

chris50362 · Post by **chris50362** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 7:30 am

flbuckmaster wrote:I feed corn and soy beans side by side down here. The deer overwhelmingly perfer the soybeans. Neither of which are grown locally.
here is an example...the pipe feeder in this picture has corn in it, the soybeans are scattered over the area from a spin feeder above. As you can see, these deer are eating only the soybeans.

jay

I made one of those tube feeders yesterday and set it up in the afternoon. It holds about a pail of corn. Pretty neat devise considering it's made of ABS/PVC tubing.

catcher · Post by **catcher** » Thu Nov 20, 2008 10:16 am

LondonDave wrote:We use whole kernel "Fuel Corn" from TSC. Reg. price $8.99 for 55 pounds but it's usually on sale for $6.99. Deer love it. I tried a bag of the "Deer" corn that had molasses or something similar on it. I thought they would gobble it right up but they didn't. It eventually got eaten but not a quickly as the plain corn.

Dave

I found the same thing at my place. But at my local co-op they make a deer feed with soy beans, grain and whole corn and molassess. They will eat that up pretty good.

warningshot · Post by **warningshot** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:10 am

we put out pumpkins, apples, corn with oats ...all were hit pretty good ....we have found that there is also a hint of pumpkin flavor afterwards in our deer ...lol

farmer54 · Post by **farmer54** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:04 am

I used whole corn back a couple of years age. The problem l had was that birds chipmunks and everything else would get into it. So l went to the Trophy Rock and it solved that problem. I have been using it since and have had great results. The web site is "trophyrock.com". Frommthe picture from the trail cameras we have had everything from fawns up to bucks coming to it. I get it from a store near Athens Ontario. The stores name is Gobble N Grunt. He sells it for about $25 a rock. I get about 4 to 6 months before l put out some more. The deer seem to really go for it. I just put some more out for the winter to help the deer to get thru. I don't think l well go back to corn.

flbuckmaster · Post by **flbuckmaster** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:54 am

chris50362 wrote:
flbuckmaster wrote:I feed corn and soy beans side by side down here. The deer overwhelmingly perfer the soybeans. Neither of which are grown locally.
here is an example...the pipe feeder in this picture has corn in it, the soybeans are scattered over the area from a spin feeder above. As you can see, these deer are eating only the soybeans.

I made one of those tube feeders yesterday and set it up in the afternoon. It holds about a pail of corn. Pretty neat devise considering it's made of ABS/PVC tubing.

mine hold about 40 lbs of corn.
jay

saxman · Post by **saxman** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 10:27 am

Acorns are dropping here so they have all but abandoned my corn
Time to get the turkey blind out and hit the oak flats

fratri · Post by **fratri** » Sat Nov 22, 2008 5:20 pm

We used to get a pickup truck load of carrots for $5 from the processors up in Bradford.... They I beleive refer to it as feed carrots... They would use a forklift to dump the box load right into the truck bed....Mind you that was about 7 or 8 yrs ago..... If I didn't move from the GTA I would still be driving there to get a truck load....