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28 cze 2021 · If you’re going to start feeding wild deer, it’s important to try and replicate their normal diet. One of the safest ways to do this is by planting and maintaining trees and plants that attract deer. Deer eat a lot of “woody browse”, which includes twigs from oak and elm trees, buds, and leaves.
4 wrz 2024 · Supplemental feeding of wild deer can improve survival and increase the population, but careless feeding can kill deer, transmit disease, or create management problems. Do not use corn or other fermentable carbohydrates as a primary emergency deer food.
23 kwi 2021 · Whether you hunt deer on public land or private, and especially if you plan to practice habitat management, identifying these attractive natural food sources can make a real difference in your success.
30 mar 2022 · According to Dr. Dave Hewitt from the Ceasar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute at Texas A&M- Kingsville, on an annual basis and averaging across regions and seasons, the white-tailed deer’s diet is dominated by browse (46%), followed by forbs (24%), mast (11%), and crops (4%).
By breaking down the nutrition calendar into the four seasons and by discussing the specific need of bucks, does and fawns, we can determine the optimal feeding and food plot strategies for your deer herd.
25 mar 2022 · Some of the deer foods we test in late summer may have DOM values of 20 percent or lower! In general, there is an approximate 90 percent correlation between the DOM of a deer food and the amount of digestible energy (DE) present.
13 lis 2021 · Mule and white-tailed deer consumed the same amount of food relative to their body mass each day (χ 2 1 = 0.4, P = 0.51), but DMI varied with diet (χ 2 4 = 28.5, P < 0.001). Deer ate more MFHP than the other pelleted diets, but a similar amount as the willow diet .