Sweet Feed!

[LongshotLayne]

I wanna know if any of yall have had any experience, success, or failure with sweet feed and white-tailed deer? Season before last my uncle was sprinkling some out every now and then on and old grown up food plot where ALOT of deer travel. First time my cousin shot a 10 point and another time late in the season his 8 year old brother shot a 134" 8 point. I'm just not sure the deer were coming in for the sweet or the corn feeder. Maybe the smell is just attracting....I personally saw a few doe walk right past the line of feed once. But my uncle claims it works like a charm.
Any advice?

[Roamer]

I usually put a 50# sack to a barrell of corn. I started doing this when I hunted around standing crops and the deer just were not interested in regular old corn. They seem to like the molasses in it.

[LongshotLayne]

Did it claude up or clog your feeder?

[texaspyro21]

I poured a bunch of it out at a creek bottom bow blind and unfortantly, my TC messed up after only after 30 pictures. Most of those 30 pictures were deer ignoring the sweet feed and the coons rolling around in it.

[k9trainer]

Did it claude up or clog your feeder?

had someone do it on our place and yes it made his feeder a mess

[Lubbock hunter]

works great on my place, and never put it in your feeder.

[Fannincnty]

I got something better. Go and buy you some MFM show sheep Comes in a brown and pinkish red bag. There is so much molasses that the bag is real stiff when they take it off the stack. This is sweeter than sweet feed. It is so powerfull the deer will act retarded. Its got everything in it. Corn, all stock, cotton seed, oats, wheat, maize, some stuff I'm not sure of and plenty of molasses. You cant put it in a feeder no matter how much you cut in down with corn. Just take it and dump it on the ground in about a 50 ft line in your shooting lane. The deer like this stuff so much they will almost be fearless of you to get that sweet stuff. Hell it even tastes pretty good too, I have tried some for the fun of it.

[Nitro1970]

I made a little trough to put some sweet feed in and nothing touched it. No coons, squirrels, opposums, birds or rabbits so I fed it to the cows.

[LongshotLayne]

Anyone tried just cotton seed?

[bowhuntertex]

I have been feeding deer sweet feed for over 20 years and the deer love it.......

[glen]

Sweet feed work in the hill country like a charm. I use it in the places that I hand corn and it does great. The only problem with it is the hogs will find it quickly also. Its cheaper than a bag of that Comeredeer that lots of folks on here have used. I think Ill try some of that MFM this weekend.

[Joey~AP]

Little piles at known distances works very well.

[Wudstix]

It works.

[LongshotLayne]

Thanks alot! The MFM sounds great!!!

[Lung Shooter]

"Go and buy you some MFM show sheep "

Be careful feeding any sheep feed to deer. Sheep can not handle copper so they take all of the copper out of the feed. If deer eat enough of this feed it can put them into an extreme copper deficiency. I'm not sure what this will do to a deer, but it can't be good for them. Also on a side note don't feed sheep deer feed, it can kill them from the high copper levels.