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Offline deerslayer79

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Risky topic,but some good advice.
« on: December 20, 2009, 02:59:53 PM »
I know this might start some stuff but for you members out there who have or use corn piles for deer hunting I got some advice for you,let me make this clear first,I do have some corn piles out in small fields,I DO NOT SHOOT DEER OFF OF OR NEAR MY CORN PILES!!! I do it as a attractant to see what deer are in my area.Now for the info you want to here,If you have problems with birds destroying your corn piles I have trick<HAY!!! cover the pile with alfalfa hay,birds will come to eat the satellite kernels but will not work their way through the hay to get to the rest.
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Re: Risky topic,but some good advice.
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2009, 04:40:30 PM »
I can look out my front window and see a pile that has about 750,000 bushel in it, how much hay will I need to cover it?
On a more serious note, good idea, makes sense that the hay would protect the corn.
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Re: Risky topic,but some good advice.
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2009, 07:00:08 AM »
The instructor of the local Hunter Safety course opined that deer don't like to eat where they poop.  That deer do poop in the process of eating and as they wander through the woods.  Ergo, long established corn feeder locations will become contaminated over time with deer, rat, coon, dove, hog, turkey, et al, feces and the deer will avoid the "free food". 

This then is not unlike the "learned" behavior of avoiding food plots, which are hunted hard.  It can be decerned by deer that MaryJo, Jackie, and Erma Doe are no longer in the herd as a direct result of eating from yonder garden.  Farmers, on the other hand, will disagree, and I believe that is the direct result of the proponderence of readily available food in the plots. 

Try hunting a small plot in the woods and in short order you will see what I mean.
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