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 Re: alfalfa for deer
[Re: Steven Bates]
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01/31/15 06:51 PM
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Locotrician
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Feed it in my back yard . Whitetail and axis love it.
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Re: alfalfa for deer
[Re: Steven Bates]
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02/02/15 11:15 AM
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Stub
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I have been feeding the deer alfalfa for many years, they love it 
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Re: alfalfa for deer
[Re: Steven Bates]
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02/02/15 02:03 PM
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mikey2
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How many of yall feed big bales? How long do they usually last?
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Re: alfalfa for deer
[Re: Steven Bates]
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02/02/15 02:11 PM
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BenBob
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We bought a couple of bales and put some in our feed pens. We got pictures of cows jumping into the feed pens to eat the alfalfa. That pretty much ended our feeding alfalfa to our deer, plus the deer did not really get after the hay like we thought they would.
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Re: alfalfa for deer
[Re: Steven Bates]
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02/02/15 02:41 PM
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Texas Turkey Hunter DFW
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I have tried alfalfa hay at least a dozen times on various leases here in Texas over the years, total waste of time & money! Deer don't really care and the cows will tear down a feeder pen to get to it!
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Re: alfalfa for deer
[Re: Steven Bates]
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02/02/15 03:44 PM
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Mr. T.
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I was going to spend a lot of extra money for alfalfa, thanks to this forum, I'll save that money and of course, spend it on something else to help the deer.
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Re: alfalfa for deer
[Re: Steven Bates]
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02/03/15 01:01 AM
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Simple Searcher
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Many years ago when axis were first starting to appear in the Hill Country, a guy told me that if I wanted to attract axis all I needed to do was to put out alfalfa. He said that axis love it and whitetail won't eat it. Man was he wrong (about the whitetail part). The whitetail were all over it. After about a dozen bales were devoured by the whitetail, I gave up trying to attract axis with it. It took 15 years for axis to finally come around our area, and man do they like alfalfa.
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Re: alfalfa for deer
[Re: Texas Turkey Hunter DFW]
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02/03/15 01:55 AM
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cva34
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I have tried alfalfa hay at least a dozen times on various leases here in Texas over the years, total waste of time & money! Deer don't really care and the cows will tear down a feeder pen to get to it! I had same luck up in Piney woods >you could put out a bale in October and it would still be there in Feb(had no cows) tried it several years ...No WANO..Must be an acquired taste..
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