Which type of corn do you put out to feed deer?

I saw some 50 pound bags of deer corn and seen other cheaper corn are they the same stuff?





i know u cant hunt them with baiting, in tennessee, u can attract them and have the corn go by like 2 weeks before season!





I also plan to put out a food plot, which seed do you all use for more succesfull big bucks?





does the deer cane work?








thanks.Which type of corn do you put out to feed deer?
Try and find some ';Acorn Rage';. It works so much better than the deer cane. It is just a powder that you spread either on the corn or pour it on a stump. Either way the deer will find it.





As far as the food plot goes try Clover, Soybean, Rye Grass.





Mossy Oak puts out some great product called Biologic. Biologic Full Draw. This mix included Brassicas, Clover and Wheat.


You can also get some Biologic Clover Plus. This mix includes white and red clover and chicory. The deer in our area absolutely love it.Which type of corn do you put out to feed deer?
any corn , it is all the same. As far as the feeder use clover. Never used the deer cane.
My brother in WI hunts with corn and he told me that last year he must've got a bad batch of it or something; the deer wouldn't touch it. He went to a different place with different corn, and they gobbled it right up, even when he put the new corn in a pile next to the 'bad corn'.
They are both probably the same corn. When you see corn that is cheaper than the other bags of corn, it is often because it has not been cleaned as well and will have bits of corn cob in it. This is just fine if you are throwing the corn out by hand but if you are using a feeder, the pieces of corncob will often clog up the mechanism and stop it from throwing corn. So, if you are throwing it out by hand, go for the cheaper stuff but if you are putting it in a feeder, you will have to buy the more expensive and cleaner corn. Just because a bag of corn says ';deer corn'; do not assume that it is clean and will work in your feeder, talk to the person at the feed store and see if it is clean or if the folks who bagged it thought it was too full of cob and debris and unfit for domestic stock and are selling it as deer corn. I've seen some pretty crappy stuff being sold as deer corn that I would have never put in my feeder.





For a feed plot, many sporting goods stores will sell a propriatary mixture of seeds for feed plots. I think most are pretty good but you can probably do as well at less expense by planting something like corn, clover, alfalfa or soy beans. Deer love them all when they are little and tender. Be sure a feed plot is okay before putting it out.





Another sure fire deer attractor is to bury a block of salt in a hole that is about 6 inches deeper than the block of salt. Cover it with soil and mix a few handsfull of ice cream salt into the covering soil. Somehow they will find it and will go crazy over it. They will paw up the earth around the salt block in getting to the salt and can often dig a hole that you wouldn't want to step into in the dark. So be careful where you bury your salt so you don't step in the hole on your way to the stand in the early morning dark. Another way to use a salt block is to put it in a mesh onion sack and hang it from a limb in a nearby tree. Be sure to hang it where it hangs out away from the trunk of the tree and high enough that they can't stand on their hind legs and hit the sack with their antlers. They will try to do this to get more salt and can tear down your salt block. One down side to this method is that it will attract raccoons and other climbers and they could chew through the sack string and let your salt block fall to the ground. If they do, it is not the end of the world, the deer will still come to it but it is just not as effective laying on top of the ground as when it is either suspended or buried.





I have never used deer cane so I am of no help to you there.
Any dried corn will work, and some old timers even use dried corn on the cob. You get less usable food in a 50 lbs bag of cob corn than loose corn.





Take care to scatter the corn, and not make piles. I have seen the piles get moist and cause the corn on the bottom to sour thereby ruining the pile.





I would use a winter mix for a food plot rather than just one specific type of plant, such as a clover/rye/winter pea/wheat mix. Most sporting goods stores will have them in stock now.


The advantage of using a mix is that you get several different plants for the deer to choose from ,in case they are picky that day, or one of the crops fails due to climate issues.
I haven't had a lot of success with the Deer Caine, but if you're allowed to make mineral licks I've found that Buck Jam, apple scented, has the deer digging holes 6 inches deep where it soaks into the dirt.
Corn is Corn...as far as food plots go, plant you some turnips...clover...etc. The deal with corn is this...as with any food source you offer a deer, if natural food sources are plentiful such as acorns...your corn will just grow mold.





BTW, we usually go to the local co-op and by mineral/salt blocks and put out, they will tear those things up...