Have a 7 yr old who wants to ask a professional hunter ';if whitetail deer eat chocolat?';?

He also wants to know if riendeer eat chocolate?Have a 7 yr old who wants to ask a professional hunter ';if whitetail deer eat chocolat?';?
SocratesHave a 7 yr old who wants to ask a professional hunter ';if whitetail deer eat chocolat?';?
I am not sure about reindeer eating chocolate, but whitetail deer dont eat chocolate.
i don't know, they've probably never had it in the wild, but i don't think they'd die from it like dogs do, so the probably could. cow's can eat it, i hear that some farmers feed it to their cattle to make the milk sweeter





so make something up like ';the could, but it would go straight to their hips =P) or something cute like that





tell you son he asks the best and most Random questions ever!
Yes both White tail deer and Reindeer eat chocolate. When I bring my grandchildren to petting zoos such as Brookfield in Chicago or the Deer Park in The Dells in Wisconsin both the whitetail and the reindeer eagerly snatch and eat any chocolate the kids have. They both seem to love Hershey's the most. I haven't heard of chocolate as a lure for wild deer. I'm sure once they tasted it they'd like it too.





Tell your 7 year old along with Santa's dish on the mantle, just in case, I always leave another dish outside with a bit of Hershey's bar along side the carrots. My grandchildren always help me with those settings. Lo, and behold when they stop by the next morning, both plates are slick and clean. Even my oldest granddaughter makes it home from college at Christmas time to break off a piece of her candy bar to add to the plate. Yes ';We believe'; even deer or Reindeer that are not in parks love the taste of chocolate.
i'm sure that they can, but they usually don't come across it in the wild
You guys need to re-address your questions to people who grow or care for live deers. Hunters are known to kill them so they would not know


In captivity they might enjoy an occasional treat, maybe even a chocolate, but carrot would be much better and healthier for them
AQWA has this figured out... deer DO eat chocolate.. and not hesitantly ether. When hunger and deer dance together in late winter, there digestive track starts relying on reserve of fat from more abundant times of feeding on there normal habitat sources, the enzymes of digestion adapt to the limited new diet, what ever that becomes, and they get less pickie about there ingestion...


.. they'll eat bark, if they cant get anything else. That's why feeding winter deer becomes problematical.. they learn to rely on, and adapt too food source not necessarily abundant in natural - normal situations.


'THAT' then increases there odds of failure to adapt to nature and her challenges. Starvation enters the survival equations when non-environmental foods are introduced.

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