Apples for deer?

[Texas Stalker]

I hear corn works too.

[trailrider]

I've taken them and cut them into slices to put out around the feeders, the does always seem to find 'em and clean 'em up.

[texanhoyt]

I saw the same show too. Looked like a cool way of doing it. The kid said they were dumping the apples under an apple tree that didn't produce that year. So I'm sure were they are from the deer are use to eating apples. But I bet they would still like em here too. Let us know how it turns out if you decide to do it.

[huntresss]

I used to live and hunt in Michigan (back when it was legal to "bait") and it was common to go out to the farm and buy apples, carrots or sugar beets by the pickup load. We could get a load of apples or carrots for under $50, then dump 'em in one big pile and just wait for the deer to show up. One bait pile would last all season long. We had alot of wild apple trees in the area, so that may have helped since the deer knew what they were. Sugar beets were plentiful in the northern part of the state and we'd find them all over where they'd rolled off the beet trucks, and the deer would hit them real good too. But when I bought a load of sugar beets down to the southern part of the state, where we didn't have any, the deer didn't know what they were and wouldn't touch them. I've never used anything but corn or cattle pellets down here so I couldn't tell you if apples would work or not in an area where they don't normally grow, but I suspect they'd have to learn what they are before they'd be attracted to them. I have a hard time getting our apple trees to produce down here, so I doubt you could find them cheaper than corn. If you do try it though, let us know how it works out.

[mjhaverkamp]

Cut them in half and smear peanut butter on them.

The deer love them that way too!

Ilove them that way also, favorite snack.

[Burnadell]

Wouldn't they beat the hail out of the spin feeder barrel?

[hopco.boy]

Maybe I should have titled it Cost of Apples.

[ABroussard]

I tried apples last year. The deer ate them up. I also bring persimmons every year from a tree we have. They only last a few hours. Deer,hogs and coons eat them up. Just depends on who gets there first.

[acearrow]

I''m sorry I don't know what they cost from a farmers market. I do know that an old timer once told me that it was the best way to get the deer onto a newly set up feeder. This was in Coleman county. There were no hogs on that place back then and those apples disappeared quickly.

[boomer453]

depends on where you go, where i hunt in michigan your limited on how much feed ou can have out at a bait station (a measure used to control CWD). abushel of apples could be had at any gas station for $15 or so. we have always done better with with heads of cabbage.

growing up we could get a truck bed load of carrots or apples for $100.

[Red Wing R/C]

Apples and deer go together like ham and eggs. Ones that are on the down side of ripe work best for me. The apple smell is really strong. Good stuff.

[Texas8point]

No apple trees in texas, throw'um out and they rot and the ants eat'um. save your money.

[denimdeerslayer]

I know in Washington state they love apples. The locals never pick the trees around their house. My FIL had a doe with twins in his yard in the middle of the day with us 20 yards away watching her clean up the apples on the ground. On my place in the old garden we have a crab apple tree and you will see them on two legs reaching for them when they get ripe. My neighbors place has one too and several trails go by that tree. Persimmons is they really love. My dad picks them in his yard, cuts them up and the deer clean them up as fast as he puts it out. What ever you use if they don't normally eat it you have to give them time to figure it out and get addicted.

[Pablo Honey]

Apples are going to be at record highs this fall.

[Pablo Honey]

No apple trees in texas, throw'um out and they rot and the ants eat'um. save your money.

We have several apple orchards in Texas.