Certain feed stores in Texas have a Roasted soybean/corn mixture available. It works fine in the feeders. They also have a corn and purple hull pea mixtures that work well. It just takes time to get them used to a change. If they are lacking natural browse and forbs especially winter months, they adapt more easily. You would have to do some research for the are of Texas you hunt to see what the feed stores offer. In the Brady,Coleman,Brownwood area where I manage several ranches we have a pelleted protein with pieces of corn in the actual pellet. They tear it up.
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Originally posted by Jaredlee264 View PostHas doing this helped you any at all in Harvesting the mature bucks? I understand what your doing but I'm curious if there is any kind of advantage to that during season.
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Originally posted by U.S.ArmyRetired View PostIs too much corn bad for deer in any way?
For the most part corn is not going to be an issue though when feeding from a spin feeder in most areas of the state though. Just not enough is fed to become an issue.
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Originally posted by texashunter56 View PostYes it has it especially in archery season and in South Texas even into November before the rut. I feed corn in Sept about 10 minutes after daylight and then in evenings about 15 minutes before sunset. When feeding protein IME I have seen an upswing in feeder buck traffic in protein pens in October. They will eat protein and not walk away from corn if it is there. The corn feeder just allows me to target a "time" for them to show up. In the TC I see bucks in the feed pens in the dark hours and not there in daylight all summer long. When I switch the feed times to daylight feedings with the corn feeders I see the bucks starting to show up in the daylight hours. Younger bucks at first then all age classes as the temps cool off some. There are still the same bucks eating at night time also, they just come back for the corn. What effects it more than anything is rainfall or lack of it and mast crops or lack of them.
We feed protein Year round as well as corn. I never adjust the time or feed times on my slingers. I feel like we see the same deer during season as we see on TC over the summer. I've never even thought about purposely feeding at night except to draw hogs when we would ambush them at night.
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Originally posted by Jaredlee264 View PostWe feed protein Year round as well as corn. I never adjust the time or feed times on my slingers. I feel like we see the same deer during season as we see on TC over the summer. I've never even thought about purposely feeding at night except to draw hogs when we would ambush them at night.
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