What Is The Best Deer Feed? PT. 2 | Sweet Feed VS. Corn
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- čas přidán 30. 07. 2024
- Supplemental deer feed is something many guys in the deer hunting world love doing, it's a great way to inventory deer and provide additional nutrition when deer need it most. In this series we wanted to see what deer feed on the market works the best for supplemental feeding. On the menu is Big and J, Purina Antler Advantage, Sweet Feed, and corn. We take into account 3 main factors, which feed the deer prefer to eat the most, the nutritional content of each feed, and the cost involved feeding these to your deer herd. We aren't sure how the results are going to turn out, so stay tuned and we'll learn together
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Great videos. I can't wait till deer season
Thanks dude, we are counting down the days! 🤙🏽🤙🏽
I'm in Oregon and only use sweet feed with mule deer. They absolutely love it. Took just over a week for them to come in but once they did they brought their friends often.
That's awesome man, sweet feed definitely works!
I Mix 50 pounds of sweet feed and 50 pounds of corn, and they love it. The 50/50 from tractor supply is excellent but expensive for 40-pound bags. I can put sweet feed out alone now, and they eat it just as good as corn now that they are use to it. They love Dumor goat sweet feed from tractor supply to.
Can't beat that!
I mix apple corn with sweet feed. 25% sweet feed ratio. That lets it get through the feeder.
Corn is what they are accustomed to. But once they got a taste they love it. Good video
I do the same thing, a 50/50 mix. The deer haven't complained to me yet
Good vid. Cool seeing turkeys show up like that.
Thanks man!
I put corn and pelletized sweet feed in my feeder behind my house I've got a trough type covered feeder I started off with mostly corn and then slowly added more pellet sweet feed till it's about 50/50 and the deer love it.
I think a 50/50 blend is perfect, thanks for watching!
I figured the molasses in the sweet feed would of been the bigger draw but videos are proof. Thanks for sharing your videos and keep them coming please.
I thought the same thing! I'll be doing some more videos here soon
Good videos!! Where can I find PT 3 with purina vs Corn?
I know every area or region is different, my deer love corn and sweet feed. But when the white oaks and postoak start falling its easy to see because they pull off corn alot
I’ve mixed it 50/50 sweet mix a corn .only downfall with sweet mix. Once it gets wet it swells an becomes a powder. But my deer has eaten it. I’m from northwest Ohio. Now today had got two bags of corn from elavater today. Lo and behold. They gave me like grind up corn like bird seed size. Would the deer still eat the corn if it’s not whole kernel ? I’m thinking they will. Just have to dump more I guess
Thanks
I’ve seen this before also but I wonder if it’s because the corn is familiar to them if they had the option of sweet feed over a long period of time with a swap or if you only give them sweet feed for a while then re-introduced corn wonder what the outcome would be
I agree 100%. My thoughts are exactly that, they are so used to it being a food source that they prefer it over "non native" supplemental feeds, even when something like sweet feed is more nutritional.
I use both Corn and Sweet Feed. Earlier in the season the Sweet Feed wins out and draws more Deer. Later in the season, the Corn wins out. Pretty sure it's the carbohydrates the deer need later in the season( colder months )
I would have loved to see a video of the winners of each video up against each other
Have you tried one on corn vs commodity feed or Is this something not preferred? Our local woods have been timbered drastically but want to keep nutritional value to the herd.
I haven't tried it, but it's worth a shot if you have it available IMO. From my years of messing with feeds I find that deer are opportunists for the most part. If there's a pile of food that is somewhat palatable they will eat it. If you're looking for nutrition I would mix the Purina and corn as I've found that a pretty good blend. You could even blend in some roasted soy bean or something else super high in protein. The truth is 80% of what a deer consumes in a year is browse, it's their main food source. My goal is mainly to help them with nutrition while does are pregnant and bucks are pushing antler! Thanks for watching man!
I been wondering about this myself
The Purina/Corn blend is my go to anymore, it works good!
In the areas of. PA,WV,OH.
Deer are used to corn.
Common sense man.
Shoulda just put sweet feed out.
1 at a time, and see how long it takes to be cleaned out.
I have corn in my feeders, and usually dump 100lb of sweet feed in a pile each month.
And I have more bucks eating sweet feed, while the doe eat scattered corn.
You want the bucks to eat the sweet feed more than the doe.
I use sweet feed,B&J blocks for 2 years,and lastyear switched to cheaper, Lucky Buck.
All sold at Tractor.
3 seasons later and now I can say I'm easily seeing multiple 125in ,and least 2 to 3 mature, 140+.
I'm in northern panhandle of WV.
Finally getting to see numbers.
What if I'm just feeding sweet feed and not putting corn down as an option, I wonder if they'll eat the feed like they would the corn? If I'm trying to grow freeze meat. I wonder if you feed them year round if it will change the taste? Just curious
If it's their only option I definitely think they will eat it, but I don't think it's their first preference. I wouldn't hesitate to put sweet feed out at all, but mixing with a bag of corn definitely would help in my opinion. From my experience there's no 'magic' blend, but they definitely have preferences when you give them options. Just experiment and see what works best for you! 🤙🏽🤙🏽
I've had sweet feed disappear faster than corn and rice bran.
I'm in South Louisiana where the browse isnt a huge variety.
No doubt, they like sweet feed too!
Safeguard makes wormer pellets that mix in your feed, I bet you could really pack some size on your herd if you kept them wormed. There is a period you have to wait between worming and butchering
I have no doubt about it, I've honestly never looked into the legality of doing something like that lol.
@@bloodline.hunt.967 It even has directions on the bag for farm deer, exotics, hogs and so on, it's for high fence folks and commercial deer farms, free range farmers.
I have tried sweet feed and they won’t touch it. They tear up corn every time.
Corn soaked overnight in beer is their fav.
First time I've heard that one! Do they like Bud, Miller, or Yuengling?? 😂😂
wonder if it wasn't the pelletized sweet feed but the actual grains and molasses
Never tried it, it would be a good test!
Do you think time of year could affect this
It absolutely does in my opinion, I've read plenty of studies on what, and when deer prefer to eat certain food sources. With that being said I think food supplementation like corn will always draw deer in, it's just too easy of a preferred food for them to pass it up. I think one exception to this would be during the acorn drop when deer shift their focus to almost solely acorn consumption. Not that they won't eat a pile of corn, but they know they have to eat those high fat/protein food sources prior to winter and rut. I'm no biologist, just my experience over the years of hunting and managing my own ground. Thanks for the comment and watching 🤙🤙
Try rice bran they love it especially when the temps drop
If I can find some, I'm going to try it!
The sweet not good in New Jersey to wet does not hold up in rain
I mix both of those together and use it in the gravity feeder and they go ape shit over it.
That's what I do anymore, they love it
Where in PA are you roughly?
I'm in northeast PA
What won between the Purina vs Corn?
The corn won! I just mix the corn and Purina anymore, pretty much the best of both worlds. What do you normally feed?
@@bloodline.hunt.967 I feed corn but am experimenting with horse sweet feed and cattle ration. We also feed rice bran
You call them Jake's ?
corn corn corn!!!
Surprise, surprise!
Corn with roasted soybeans works the best I have seen. Adding a lot better protein
Hard to beat the protein level with soybean
If the acorns are plentiful I can't get deer to even look at corn
That's a fact! Acorns are nutrionally superior to just about anything, and deer know it, acorns are king once they start dropping!
Sweet feed in southern Alabama is pissing away money!!!. Corn and peanuts are equally as good! I think the sweet feed is just TOO strong and TOO sweet!! Don’t bother with peanut butter here either!!! It just molds and rots away... an occasional coon or squirrel and that’s it!!! 🌽 all the way! Cheapest and most abundant!!!
Agreed! Corn is king!
The b&j is only good for the smell to get them there, they eat everything but the b&j
Sweet feed melts in rain
It can get pretty nasty, if I use sweet feed I use it in an automatic feeder!
Geese like plain corn too...cracked, whole, soaked...just the cheapest corn is better.
Corn is king!
dont use whole corn...tough to digest... use cracked corn
Deer will eat their favorite but also whatever is available...if only sweet feed is put out they will eat it.
Corn is like candy so that’s what I use
Agreed, hard to beat corn! It just always bothered me that the protein content is so low, I've been mixing corn with the antler advantage and it's been working great!
Agreed, a mix is best when it comes to feeding deer and bear. Corn, apples, a sweetener, sweet feed, trail mix…. Meet their need and wants
Deer don't need fats
Actually they do, they just convert carbohydrates to fats like most mammals
y'all really lame hunters if you gotta feed them to kill one
anybody, literally anybody can shoot a deer over a bait.....it's not that difficult and honestly not really hunting.
It is illegal to hunt over bait in Pennsylvania. It's called supplemental feeding in the off-season. If you wouldn't make assumptions and ask, you wouldn't come off so dumb.
@@bloodline.hunt.967 call it what you want but it's still conditioning the deer to come to one spot and brings them in with food
all you're doing is skirting the game laws, dude. sorry, just saying
If that was the case I'd be killing 140" buck every year. You think deer are going to continue showing up when there's no food out for 60 days? You simply don't know what you're talking about man. I feed while does are carrying and nursing fawns, and while bucks are pushing antlers. It's simply to help nourish the herd when they really need it. As a matter of fact, I'm 100% against hunting over bait, and I stop feeding way before I'm legally required in PA.