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They don’t like it #9014426 03/03/24 10:38 PM
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Since I put out the pellets a couple of weeks ago, nothing has touched them. Yesterday I bought some of the berry flavored stuff, but wanted to get the untouched stuff out of the gravity feeder. I drained about 20# on to the ground. It made a nice tall pile. Last night I have pics of the coons looking at the pile, but this morning the pile was untouched. It must have Kale or Tofu in it.

Maybe there’s too much greenery now for them to bother with the protein pellets. But maybe they’ll try the Record Rack berry flavored stuff. Heck, they aren’t even hitting the corn right now.


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Re: They don’t like it [Re: 603Country] #9015396 03/05/24 11:53 PM
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this time of year protein pellets are barely touched. Way too much spring green up going on, esp in the central and south Texas areas. North Texas is just starting but there is still some good stuff for them to eat and they ignore the protein largely until late June.

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I put a protein tub out and the came to it the same day, checkout the thread
https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/9016740/re-deer-protein-tubs#Post9016740

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Re: They don’t like it [Re: 603Country] #9021695 03/19/24 02:51 PM
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When it greens up here in South Texas, the deer only want those "greens." I won't start feeding pellets or cotton seed till early summer or if it starts to get dry. But I did put out mineral blocks around the water holes and the water guzzlers around our ranch. Now is the time to put out minerals.

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I put out 5 of the blocks. Can’t tell whether that have been touched


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We put out a little protein in January and nothing touched it. We filled it all the way up in February and nothing touched it till the second half of the month. Now the deer, even with all the browse, are hitting the pellets every day.

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I just bought a protein feeder and filled with corn/soybean mix and protein pellets a month ago. Not a single deer has come to it, yet they come to the corn feeder (50 yards away) everyday. Is that normal? This is my first time feeding protein, so I'm flying blind.

The cows, raccoons, and hogs all found within the first 3 days

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Forget that nonsense, mix a little shelled corn, and get a bag of Horse & Mule feed, i throw that out
about once a week just to keep the deer around place here, if they miss it, coons, and some birds will get
before the next day. Once hunting season comes around, horse/mule stuff mixed with reg shelled corn,
and our protein pellets! Then everyone is happy!


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Re: They don’t like it [Re: Hogflyer] #9053000 05/27/24 01:22 PM
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Hmmmm! Horse and Mule feed. I’ll try it.


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Re: They don’t like it [Re: 603Country] #9054075 05/29/24 03:05 PM
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The local biologist told me that last years bag had some dried molasses in it, some corn kernals coated with
that is the attractant to deer. Different brands may differ.... all i know it works.

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