Originally posted by Drycreek3189
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If I had a choice I would go food plots over protein feeders every day of the week - we run cameras on our feeders and at the best a deer will come to the feeder twice per day and be there less than 5 minutes each time. How much can they really ingest in that short of a time?
On the other hand, deer are born to browse. If they have a food plot to graze on they will stay out there for hours and ingest much more than they ever could or would at a feeder.
We are in south texas so unless you have irrigation (which we do not) a food plot is just too iffy - but they are the ticket IMO
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Originally posted by TKK View PostIf I had a choice I would go food plots over protein feeders every day of the week - we run cameras on our feeders and at the best a deer will come to the feeder twice per day and be there less than 5 minutes each time. How much can they really ingest in that short of a time?
On the other hand, deer are born to browse. If they have a food plot to graze on they will stay out there for hours and ingest much more than they ever could or would at a feeder.
We are in south texas so unless you have irrigation (which we do not) a food plot is just too iffy - but they are the ticket IMO
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Originally posted by hammer63 View PostI have a little different results on my lease. I feed protein free choice for an hour and a half each morning and each evening. My cameras show deer showing up and waiting for the feed to dispense, then once it feeds, they show to be eating for most of an hour. They'll eat a bit then wander off and come back a bit later for another bite. They repeat the back and forth until they've had their fill.
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The ranch is 1120 acres with us trying to carry around 120 deer for the property. Our goal is just to keep the feeders full so we go once every 2 or 3 weeks to top them off. The deer dictate how much we put out. As long as they keep eating we will keep buying protein to refill. We only feed protein from February-October then we switch to corn.
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