I would like to start using it too but just too far to go get living in Northeast Texas. Maybe some others could get together and do a bulk buy or something.
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I do not think it is a waste. If your on a place under 1,000 acres you will be feeding some of the neighbors deer but that's not a bad thing. The only waste of money about it would be you paying for the protein and managing the deer and then your neighbor getting the benefits. We have a feeder pen for every 300 acres and it's a low fence ranch.
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Originally posted by Bayouboy View PostI have four protein feeders going and losing about 100# a week at each feeder. More than usual considering all the great browse and greenery our place has right now. Tells me they like it. And, I have my feeders coon proofed. So, it's mainly deer hitting them.
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Just me and mom paying for protein so we rotate through cottonseed, cotton seed pellets and what is the best price protein pellet at tractor supply (cattle cubes, horse pellets etc...). We feed 40 plus bags a month and they clean it up. We have out mineral blocks for trace minerals at each of the 3 protein stations. We are only about 800 acres low fenced.
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Originally posted by rtp View PostIt will definitely increase their body size as well. When I first started feeding protein the heaviest buck we killed, weighed in at 162 lbs. Two years later we killed one over 200lbs. Even in some of these drought years, they are still over 190 lbs at the beginning of the season. The heaviest killed so far was a cull 6 point that went 212 lbs. I love seeing those big ole fatties strutting around at the beginning of the season.
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Originally posted by rtp View PostReading back through this old thread I thought I would update for that season. In 2014-15 season, we took bucks that weighed 228 and 222 lbs. One pasture that had never produced a 160"+ buck produced 3 on opening weekend of that season. Another pasture that never broke the 140" mark produced a 157" on the last day of the season. Those are heavy duty bucks especially for Refugio county. Man I wish I could have kept that program going.
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