Begging 4 Bucks

Does any one know a good deer food that helps make big antlers, and you dont need to take care of, just a food you can pour out of the box and leave for a while.
Any names of food or sites would help so much
TY

timbercruiser

There is no magic bullet to grow antlers.If you have a pen area with good geneitic deer in it, have plenty of moneyto feed them and leave the bucks till they are5 or 6 years old then you will probably grow big antlers. Best thing you can do is give the bucks in your area time to grow to their maximum size.

Xtec Shooter

I'd have to agree with timber. If growing big bucks were as easy as you would like it to be, they would be all over the place. Planting food plots, some QDM if that's what you'd like to do and many others things all go into building good deer.

Oneshot7

biologic works good at a very affordable price but be sure to plant austrailian winter peas with it so that have something to eat in the winter time so they will stay at your property year round and wont leave and go to someones elses land

one on one

well said timbercruiser, mineral blocks, soybeans,but the best is let him walk. good luck, & shoot him with a camera

johnnyBgood

I thought I read awhile back that you could also get larger racks by useing artificial light to throw the deers growth cycle off and to let them growbigger racks inthe velvet stage.Has anyone else heard of this?This was because the growth was determined by the daylight cycles.As the daylight got shorter it triggered the antler to stop growing in the velvet stage and start to hardin for the rut.I looked up deer in velvet antler growth and it brought lots of sites of herbal viagra. Better not tell to many people,we just might get alot more older men archery hunting for the velvet from the bucks.LMAO But I will keep looking and see if I can find about artificial light and antler size increase.Maybe I should look up a zoo in alaska and compare their whitetails if they have any to other captive whitetails in other states since alaska is the midnight sun state.

johnnyBgood

A healthy whitetail buck begins to grow a new set of antlers in early spring, usually well before the year's fawns are horn. The growth is triggered by light, or more specifically by the increasing daylight hours of springtime. From the instant new antlers emerge from the pedicels, they are covered with a network of blood vessels and nerve endings known as "velvet," because it looks and feels like light reddish-brown velvet or suede. This is the only regenerating skin found in mammals. The rapidly growing antlers receive blood both through the cores and from that outer velvety skin. How fast the antlers grow depends on heredity and nutrition.


http://www.hunting101.com/biggame/northamerica/Deer/whitetailed/conservation002.htm

I would think they could grow monsterous whitetails in a controlled lighted enviroment.This would be cool just to try and make the biggest freakiest elk size antlers for a whitetail.I wouldn't think they would have a problem with the weight of the new size antlers just problem running threw the woods if it was released.

game4lunch

I don't believe what I'm reading. All of this post suggests unatural animal growth and production! Artificial light, mineral licks, dumping steroidal feed on the ground . . . all to artificially grow bigger racks. What ever happened to hunting for them?
All this modern chemical influence on rack sizes should be dully noted in the record books and disallow any harvest in a state that allows such bio-alterations!
You want a big rack? Make one aout of paper mache or whittle it.

Begging 4 Bucks

Ok i was jw cause i saw a show on tv where these pro hunters said "this food works great its really boosts antler growth"
does any one know of any other food you can just lay on the ground and needs no care, that deers will come to eat?

alabamadeerhunter

They were most likely talking about a mineral lick in that case. But what good is it going to do if u dont let the little ones walk. Also a problem we have down here in the south it the adjoining land owners. You may let a little walk but as it goes over to the other peoples food plot BOOM its gone. So my advice is plant some spring food plots and try to get the other hunters on the same level you are on or letting the little ones walk. World of difference.
Here are some mineral lick sites:
http://www.antlerking.com/ http://www.whitetailinstitute.com/products/
http://www.mossyoakbiologic.com/ http://www.buckgrub.com/

I hope this helps you and grow'em big