Thanks dude, we are counting down the days! 🤙🏽🤙🏽

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

Thanks man!

That's awesome man, sweet feed definitely works!

I thought the same thing! I'll be doing some more videos here soon

I think a 50/50 blend is perfect, thanks for watching!

The Purina/Corn blend is my go to anymore, it works good!

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 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.

No doubt, they like sweet feed too!

If I can find some, I'm going to try it!

First time I've heard that one! Do they like Bud, Miller, or Yuengling?? 😂😂

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!

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! 🤙🏽🤙🏽

Never tried it, it would be a good test!

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 🤙🤙

That's what I do anymore, they love it

I'm in northeast PA

Hard to beat the protein level with soybean

That's a fact! Acorns are nutrionally superior to just about anything, and deer know it, acorns are king once they start dropping!

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

Agreed! Corn is king!

Surprise, surprise!

Corn is king!

It can get pretty nasty, if I use sweet feed I use it in an automatic feeder!

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

Actually they do, they just convert carbohydrates to fats like most mammals

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.