Thread: does protein feeding work ?

Strap it down well. Seen high winds really beat those up. Good luck. Sure looks secure and safe.

In GA we feed the deer a quart jar of corn every night scattered well so they have to hunt for it while we watch. They show up daily even when the acorns are falling. There's also a mature Persimmon tree beside the house that produces fruit. The deer clean it up every night too. If you wanna treat the deer and get a laugh, put out a bag of mini marshmallows. They suck em up like little vacuum cleaners!

I will have to throw out some marshmallows

Good tip on marshmallows

Marshmallows are on the grocery list!

Originally Posted by DockShootinJack

I will have to throw out some marshmallows

never tried marshmallows , ours will hammer popcorn though and peanut butter too ....
one the one thing out there that really makes em go bananas in these parts is mistletoe , they will often get into fights over it ....
its a local old bowhunters trick , they relish that stuff ....

There's lots of Mistletoe in my area. I'll take the shotgun and shoot some out for a test....

I had a friend in Pulaski County, Virginia who passed a number of years ago. He ran food plots and protien feeders year 'round on his property (~1,000 acres). He also managed the herd for quality bucks and does. He would allow wounded Vets come out to take scrub bucks and thin the doe numbers to help him balance the herd and maintain a 1:1 or 2:1 buck/doe ratio. He wouldn't take a chosen buck until it was 6 years old at full maturity. His trophy room was ridiculous with buck heads that looked more like bucks out of Saskatchewan, Canada than Virginia. He was a Vietnam Vet who did 3 tours as a forward observer & saw lots of bad stuff. He never expected to come home and had his family invest his pay in the land he wanted. He ran a couple of huge distribuitorships that made him tons of money, yet you'd never know it. He was one of the nicest and best peopke I ever knew.

Jim