deer eat apples?

[dennishoddy]

Yes deer love apples. I have seen deer stand up on their back legs and stretch to get apples of the tree. They don't have a lot nutritional value, but are more less like candy to them.

I used to hunt a place with a pear tree on it, and got to watch the deer do exactly what you said.

I have an apple tree at home that is loaded this year, and will take some of the excess to the field. Coons love them too.
My trail pics show more coons than deer eating them, but I will admit/say deer love the apples too.

 

[saddlebum]

persimmions

 

[Shifty]

Deer love apples. My grandparents have an apple tree about 60 yards from the back door and grandma is aggrivated every year because the deer always eat them all and she cant make a pie with the fresh apples. Id say scattering them around would be a great idea.

 

[Huckelberry75]

Dennis, I hope your buddy hit the jackpot at the casino, b/c there was a jackpot at the stand that morning.

 

[mike miller]

When I lived on the west side of EL Reno you had to be careful early morning because one of the neighbors had a cherry tree in the front yard. Come off the Grazingland and cleaned them up.

 

[dennishoddy]

Dennis, I hope your buddy hit the jackpot at the casino, b/c there was a jackpot at the stand that morning.

No jack pot for him. He is still in the "I can make a living off of the casino, because I know how it works" phase.
All of his guns are in the pawn shop, and he's about to loose his house, so I'm thinking he may be living in that blind before long.

 

[crazyfish]

sweet feed? what it is it? any certain ones? i live next to a ranch store and they have some feeds in there just dont know much about feeds i have used the 422s minerial supplement but tha is all i know that and regular corn.

I just go to the feed store and ask for sweet feed. It's like oats, corn, alfalfa pellets and something else maybe with molasses mixed in. I just dump it on the ground because I think it is too sticky to run in the feeder. I've heard of people mixing rice bran with it so that it will run through a feeder.

 

[kdlong]

We just pile them up close to our feeders.the sweet feed has molasses in it they will go crazy over molasses.I had a friend they used to work at wp feeds here and he would get some straight molasses.we would dig a small hole and fill it up.the deer would latterly eat the dirt. We would wind up with a he about 4times larger then we started with.it would last a couple of years.

 

[brian89]

This should put an end to this discussion.
This is my buddies stand......he was at the casino.
Unless somebody else killed it, the buck is still alive. It was rut. This is a 22 acre grass and wooded area in the middle of a section wheat fields. small plots can produce....you just have to be there every day...all day.

Yeah, its my place, and I let him hunt there...

Here is another place:

Holy cow dennis, I would be sick if I saw that on my trail cam after I left...
I always second guess the times I leave the woods, and try and make myself stay an extra 10 minutes longer every time..

I told myself one day im gonna leave at 10:30.. and about 10 I fell asleep in my stand.. well about 10:15 i heard leaves rustling and looked to my left and seen a doe hauling butt down the draw, I look behind her and 4 bucks are about 75 yards behind noses to the ground.. I went back that next day and killed one of the four on my way into my stand.. he had that doe pinned down in a thicket and wouldnt leave..

 

[ProBusiness]

I read some where that if a deer did not have apples in their normal range, and you used whole apples around the feeder, they did not know what a whole apple was - no attraction.

Not apple juice or cut apples - just throwing out whole apples.

Does anyone have an opinion on this?