buck antler growing food
02-11-2006, 12:47 PM
#13
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
RE: buck antler growing food
You have to remember that everybody that has a commercial is trying to sell you something, and that they can and will tell you almost anything to get you to buy it. The deer feeds and supplements will work in ideal conditions, but those conditions probably include penned areas with other nutrients fed and TIME FOR GROWING also. Throwing out 50# of anything on the ground probably didn't do anything other than take several dollars out of your pocket.
02-11-2006, 02:20 PM
#15
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Jackson, Ohio
Posts: 345
RE: buck antler growing food
timbercruiser you are trying to say that you have to have deer penned up in order for the food to actually help the deer gow. Well i hunt a food plot that is not fenced in and i have seen the progress in the deer over the course of 2 years.
02-11-2006, 04:37 PM
#16
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ponce de Leon Florida USA
Posts: 10,079
RE: buck antler growing food
I am trying to say not to believe everything you see and hear. Sure a food plot will help, we plant about 60 each year, but the factor of time for the buck to mature is far more important. I just don't think you can pour a couple of sacks of Buck Grub or any other feed out and expect to grow trophybucks because of it. With a penned area you can control all the factors to grow a trophy buck. By the way, I don't have or hunt in a pen.
02-12-2006, 07:22 AM
#18
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2005
Posts: 168
RE: buck antler growing food
The only thing you can really do is have food sources that provide deer with the protien,calcium and other minerals they need for antler growth. But even having those foods doesnt insure they will eat them.
I will be converting a powerline right of way this year and will have plenty of before and after pics for you guys. My plantings will consist of alfalfa, red clover, ladino clover,cow peas,soybean,corn, and some of the easyplot no-plow seed. The no-plow seed will used on a hill where I dont want to till , that way there will be no erosion issues to deal with. Also after the soybeans and cowpeas have died out in the fall I will use winter seed rye. There is a small plot out there right now and it is completely mowed to the ground. I planted the same seed at the same time in my garden at home for a cover crop and the rye is 12"-14" tall.
Here is another site I found, it has seeding rates, plant nutritional values, planting dates, and soil requirements.
www.agriculture.purdue.edu
Go to the search box and type in foodplots, there are about ten different articles in there and the I use is the "Food plots for whitetail deer".
There is also another site , wildlife foods plots in Tennessee, with the same charts.
I will be converting a powerline right of way this year and will have plenty of before and after pics for you guys. My plantings will consist of alfalfa, red clover, ladino clover,cow peas,soybean,corn, and some of the easyplot no-plow seed. The no-plow seed will used on a hill where I dont want to till , that way there will be no erosion issues to deal with. Also after the soybeans and cowpeas have died out in the fall I will use winter seed rye. There is a small plot out there right now and it is completely mowed to the ground. I planted the same seed at the same time in my garden at home for a cover crop and the rye is 12"-14" tall.
Here is another site I found, it has seeding rates, plant nutritional values, planting dates, and soil requirements.
www.agriculture.purdue.edu
Go to the search box and type in foodplots, there are about ten different articles in there and the I use is the "Food plots for whitetail deer".
There is also another site , wildlife foods plots in Tennessee, with the same charts.
02-24-2006, 12:17 PM
#19
Typical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Starlight, Indiana
Posts: 547
RE: buck antler growing food
I bought some buck grub in early FEB. I poured it on the ground in strips like the bag says. Went back two days later and all that was left was a huge 4 foot in diameter hole dug by the deer. I went back to check some other spots where I put it out and there were 4 bucks standing around it. This stuff really atracts deer, I don't know as far as antler growth. It contains alot of protein and fat and other nutrients that have to help throughout winter.