Acorns

[DEER 24/7]

What do deer like better then acorns?nothing that i know of ,i have out in a wheat field corn,apples,pears,peanut butter,swamp donkey,acorn rage,dried sugar beets,i have watch them walk right thru this stuff and never lower there heads until they get to a acorn tree that is near by.anybody on here know of any thing they like better then acrons

 

[Okie4570]

I don't have a oak tree within miles of where I hunt but I did discover tonight that deer will vacum up yellow mulberry and osage orange tree leaves that have fallen. Hunted here for almost 20 years and never noticed them doing this before. Used to hunt the NE part of the state and nothing beat acorns.

 

[white92coupe]

Everything I've ever read and heard was that acorns are there #1 food.

 

[big-triple-d]

Yep they love the crabapple leafs. I hunted with a guy at McAAP a few years back that told me the same thing. I set up in dry creek bottom across an open field from one and it had does under it every day.

 

[Hog Shooter]

we have lots of red oaks, they deer will eat them but white oak are their prefered acorn. There are also burr oak trees with huge acorns and I have seen deer eat them, also had one with a paunch full of them when I was dressing it out. We have been feeding raw molassess mixed with whole corn since Oct. 2010 and the deer love this stuff.

 

[Bullbuster]

Sugar beets has been a hot item for me. But they also are hitting the acorns hard as well.

 

[ez bake]

Horse Apples (or Hedge Apples). The deer love 'em where I hunt. I take a machete with me and hack them up so the Horse-Apple innards are exposed and that smell gets out to the surrounding areas. I've tried smelling and tasting them, but they're just flat-out nasty to me. Some how the deer have acquired a taste for them.

 

[steelhorse]

persimmons

 

[dennishoddy]

persimmons

It would have to be a tie between persimmons, and acorns. I have both in my yard, and the deer move between them.
Coyotes, coons, and possums love persommons too.
My dogs make a beline for the persimmon trees and gorge. Their poop is nothing but persimmon seeds when they are ripe.