Peanuts for deer?

[Longue Carabine]

Lyssy and Eckel sells 50lb bags of peanuts for deer. Has anyone used peanuts and if so what were your results? I realize they're mostly just carbs, but did deer like them?

[cwbow]

They love them.

[ACCURACYINC]

Good source of protein and fat too.

[tigerscowboy]

Mostly just carbs??? Peanuts are mostly fat and protein
Calories: 567 in 3.5 oz
Protein: 25.8 grams
Carbs: 16.1 grams
Sugar: 4.7 grams
Fat: 49.2 grams

Over in Northwest Texas, the deer herd feasts on peanuts by choice. So much that their body fat has a yellow color vs white.

[Troutamer]

Deer don't like em and if they do eat em it makes their horns shrink

[Antlers86]

Try animal crackers.

[STGS]

We used to feed raw peanuts to our pen deer. They absolutely love them. Shell and all....

I bet that 50 lb bag isn’t cheap.

[Longue Carabine]

Interesting, I didn't realize peanuts had that much protein

[MooseontheLoose]

My brief experience with them was a little varied. We don't typically feed peanuts or use them but I was chasing a buck that just wouldn't cooperate. I tried throwing all kinds of stuff out hoping he'd get hooked on one of them and come in consistently. Some deer didn't pay any attention to them and would eat around them but others liked them a lot. Target buck never got into them or cared for them.

I got in the stand one morning about an hour and a half before daylight with a very bright full moon overhead. I barely had the door of the blind closed before a mature buck was mowing the peanuts down. He was a known deer and I watched him in the moonlight and listened to him crunching peanuts for an hour before he finally ate his fill and eased off. That buck had to have watched/heard me walk in and get in the blind, but he was on those peanuts fast and just couldn't get enough of them.

I think like everything else, it just depends

[Kenner97]

curious how much as well? Buddy feeds peanut hay and says the deer tear it up.

[Big Mike M]

We used to feed raw peanuts to our pen deer. They absolutely love them. Shell and all....

I bet that 50 lb bag isn’t cheap.

$41 per bag.

[dpg481]

We hunted a large piece of land in Brady years ago that was a farm that grew peanuts. The deer would be in those fields most of the day eating.

[BDKeeling]

This is one of 6 spots where I feed peanuts every day!


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[Mission408]

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[arrowsmack324]

What the buck!