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What is the cheapest feed for couple of deer who visit regularly?? Grandkids want to know. Corn is a little high and pumpkins are all gone. Appreciate the info. Dave
 
I know your looking for a low cost, but they sure like cracked corn was $12 for 50 lbs.

Out of respect for them, because they provide me with food, when there is snow on the ground, I take a coffee can full of that corn, maybe 2 or 3 sometimes, depends, and lay that out near my porch, they show up every night, and its gone in the morning. Not much for em but with weather like we had last winter, I know they appreciate it. This year has been mild so I have not set any out. Around here they are not that much of a nuisance, so I'm nice to em, just don't get in my garden darn it LOL !
 
nnalert remains.....Oh wait deer wont eat crap...My mistake.

If it was me 100 pounds of feed corn is $8-9 or so. That would last a while if you give them a little at a time.
 
I'm trying to repel the dammed things.

Last year alone, they killed 4 trees in our back yard. We can't get any landscaping done because they kill young trees as fast as we plant them. They destroyed a small pine tree last year two days after we planted it.
 
My neighbor fed the deer also. Those brousers ate off her shrubs and other plants until she stopped luring them in with feed. They also brings their friends with them
 
Neighbors garden or corn = cheapest feed.
Seriously you just have to determine if having them come around and your getting to watch them is worth the price of the corn, etc. It is all relative depending on your perspective.
 
I havent bought feed corn in 3 years or more now. I bought it for my corn/pellet burner.
The last I paid was $8 per 100 pounds, bagged too. Heavy...... The wood pellets are lighter at 40 pounds per bag. I am not as young as I used to be.
 
You might see if any farmers close by would object if you took the grandkids and gleaned corn fields. I have done my fields closest to my house like this the last 3 years. Grandkids have fun, get outdoors, and see the animals benefitting from their labors when the snow is on. Combines do miss some and wind or tree limbs will cause more to be missed.

A neighbor gleans his field (80 acres or so) closest to his house after the renter is done with harvest and he feeds about 15 goats all winter this way.
 
I think that any of your neighbors corn that you can get to feed the deer is by far the cheapest way to go! ;*)
 
(quoted from post at 17:05:12 01/06/12) What is the cheapest feed for couple of deer who visit regularly?? Grandkids want to know. Corn is a little high and pumpkins are all gone. Appreciate the info. Dave
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Hunters here feed deer and hogs to keep them away from town in bad weather... They gather old bread from the bakeries (not just white bread), fruit from stores that don't sell, some ear corn, and whatever the farmers clean out of the combines... Run everything thru a garden chopper and feed it... A couple of them put the stuff in balls with holes that they roll around and crumbs fall out for them to eat..... I believe they do the fruit and some veggies seperate.... whole if they are good and run them thru a chopper if bad spots....
 
One of our neighbors (transplants from Las Vegas) were feeding deer. And within 3 months there were 5 does hit along our road in the quarter mile stretch by where they were feeding the deer.

I don't know what the total vehicle damage was from those 5 deer collisions, but I bet it was lots more than $10K.

Deer are wild animals. You are not doing them any favors by teaching them that they can get an easy lunch by going close to where people are or have recently been.

Please rethink the idea of feeding the deer.
 
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