What are deers attracted to the most?
I just noticed that i have deer in my backyard i guess because i live in front of a forest…..I DO NOT want to hunt them cause i love animals but i want to watch and take pics of them cause i am a photographer. I have a list of vegetable but i do not know which attracts them the most….Can anybody tell me which of these foods they like the most:
Green beans
Lima Beans
Pinto Beans
Creamed Corn
Corn
Peas
Spinach
And also you can name one more name that is not on the list that attracts deer but is a common vegetable or fruit
I really do not want to go out and buy special foods that attract them, just wanna know if there is anything in my house that they may like
13 comments a "What are deers attracted to the most?"
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Deer love to eat azaleas and most annual flowers.
They like cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower.
the smell of peanut butter will really draw them in from great distances to keep them in your lawn spread out handfuls of dried corn. try not to put it in a pile because they will take a mouthful and leave if you spread it out it will take them a while to eat it keeping them there longer
Deer really like eating apples-and grapes. Try laying some out on the ground. Leaving in them the same area
They love salt “licks” or blocks of salt more than anything else.
Photographers and hunters use them all the time to attract all types of wild animals, not just deer. A salt “lick” will usually last about 6 months.
, Deer love “dried ” Corn and Soybeans, There is not much on your list that they will be attracted to. They won’t eat any canned or frozen vegetables or anything wet with juice. I have fed the ones in my back yard Peaches, Persimmons, Apples, Turnips and dried corn mixed with brown molasses (They love sweet and salty)
NOTE* They are highly attracted to salt blocks like the ones farmers use for cows and horses. One of these will last months and they will stay around for you to get some photographs easily. You can buy the salt blocks at any feed & grain store.
They like any kind of greens out there.They really like Alfalfa
I use a corn feeder from Wal-Mart during deer season. Its programmable so you can make it dispense twice a day. I set mine to dusk and dawn. The deer love seed corn. And they come running when they hear the feeder go off.
Miketyson26
They love apples and acorns and corn*…Also a salt lick*…
A friend of mine told me to this and i hevent yet, mainly because its illegal to bait them. Take some apples, oranges and otehr fruits and cut em up. Pour salt on them and put in a little water. Put them in a bag that the juices can drip form and hang it in a tree. The juices drip on the ground and they lick the ground. I dont know if it works, but it makes sense.
try putting “doe in heat” scent in your yard. That’ll bring em in.
Yeah, nothing much on that list that deer will go for. They love apples(soft ones), acorns, dried corn, afalfa…You’re not gonna get too many animals that are going to eat stuff out of a can except like raccoons or something. Even squirrels prefer dried corn cobs and stuff like that.
Just out of my garden, they have eaten tomato leaves and stems, chili pepper plants, cucumber leaves etc. The only thing they have not bothered are my sweet basil plants. Guess there are not Italian.
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