Corn not getting eat!

[Try'n Hard]

9th year here and they have always cleaned it up every night, turned it off this afternoon since there is so much uneaten on the ground. Just got a camera on it but guessing not gonna get many pics. Woods and trees still full of acorns and Im guessing thats whats up? This the Camden AL area. Anybody else got anything weird happening? Do we need a hard freeze??

 

[big jon]

somebody might have peed on it

 

[FLT]

Deer around here prefer acorns, that’s the likely answer.

 

[DustyDog]

Don't tell me you bought the Great Value brand trying to save a few bucks (no pun inten... OK, pun INTENDED! : )

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

My bride put up a new feeder on my plot, they don't like it. Been eating the corn but have stopped, piled up.

 

[big jon]

sounds like somebody peed on it,thats an old fashion thing people been peeing on deer feeders for ever
when fish and game sees those piles flying around they stake em out that's shooting over bait and they will

 

[M118LR]

Y'all are doing it wrong. Hang the corn crib out the bathroom window and prop your rifle next to the commode. Take the screen off and leave the bathroom window open. When Bambi comes for breakfast feed Him a little lead. Works everytime. LOL. Happy Hunting!

 

[lettheairout]

Acorns are falling really good.

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[Duckyou]

Corn is like candy to deer. If they have a nutritional need then they will stop eating it to focus on what their body is missing.

 

[Bay Ranger]

I have 2 feeders out in food plots with cameras overlooking them. Deer don't seem very interested in the corn. I get more pics of the squirrles and coons eating the corn than I do deer. Two weeks ago when I was last there there was a bunch of corn on the ground.

BTW what is going on with deer movement this week? In the last 5 days I've gotten exactly 2 camera pics of deer in my food plots. Earlier I was getting 10 to 20 pics during a 24hr period. Is it all this abnormally warm weather we've been having? Property is outside Jackson, AL.

 

[Fathertime]

Haven’t y’all realized yet that feeding during hunting season only makes the deer movement basically stop. Feeding during the off season helps by maintaining a food source but it doesn’t do anything for increasing the chance at that illusive buck. Hunt the rut for that. For what y’all waist in money for corn and bait I can buy a lot of fine meat and seafood and still go kill a deer any time I feel the need. And by the way notice that when and if the deer come to the feeder it’s normally not during shooting hours, the deer have y’all fooled. The last hunting club I was in started feeding , they couldn’t understand why no one was seeing any deer, I told them to stop feeding finally they listened and they started seeing and shooting deer.

 

[Try'n Hard]

Haven’t y’all realized yet that feeding during hunting season only makes the deer movement basically stop. Feeding during the off season helps by maintaining a food source but it doesn’t do anything for increasing the chance at that illusive buck. Hunt the rut for that. For what y’all waist in money for corn and bait I can buy a lot of fine meat and seafood and still go kill a deer any time I feel the need. And by the way notice that when and if the deer come to the feeder it’s normally not during shooting hours, the deer have y’all fooled. The last hunting club I was in started feeding , they couldn’t understand why no one was seeing any deer, I told them to stop feeding finally they listened and they started seeing and shooting deer.

My 40 yrs of hunting has told me pretty much the opposite

 

[FLT]

 

[FLT]

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[Rockola2004]

I have 2 feeders out in food plots with cameras overlooking them. Deer don't seem very interested in the corn. I get more pics of the squirrles and coons eating the corn than I do deer. Two weeks ago when I was last there there was a bunch of corn on the ground.

BTW what is going on with deer movement this week? In the last 5 days I've gotten exactly 2 camera pics of deer in my food plots. Earlier I was getting 10 to 20 pics during a 24hr period. Is it all this abnormally warm weather we've been having? Property is outside Jackson, AL.

I’ve hunted south Alabama over 20 years. We typically have a December lull in deer sightings. The warm weather doesn’t help either.

 

[DixieReb]

Deer have slacked off on my corn too, not getting pics hardly at all now at the feeders. Fattening up the squirrels, turkeys, and coons though. This heat along with the moon phase is definitely a factor. Too much for them to browse around on in the woods plus like Rockola2004 said we always have a lull in December

 

[Rebel_Rider1969]

Got deer back in mine, probably spooked by the new feeder.

 

[Bamaboy19]

sounds like somebody peed on it,thats an old fashion thing people been peeing on deer feeders for ever
when fish and game sees those piles flying around they stake em out that's shooting over bait and they will

Here in Bama we can pay a $15 extra fee on our license to legally hunt over corn.
Lots of acorns this year, I've watched deer pass up a corn pile to eat acorns, their favorite are white oak, of all my oaks, I have 1 white oak on my property.

 

[DixieReb]

Well they decided to eat some corn this evening, problem is, we have too many members feeding corn in our club, lol

 

[Bay Ranger]

These fellas are regular visitors to my feeder:

BTW, turkey season is now open in Clarke Co., AL