Nova
5 year old buck +
I know that as the ag beans start to yellow and dry down this time of year the deer find other things to eat, but I have 2 plots of eagle forage beans. They don't stop growing and dry down with the shorter day light hours like ag beans do. They continue to grow until they get hit by a frost. That is how mine are. My ag beans are almost fully dried down but my forage beans are still dark green and growing strong. The deer have been hitting them all summer, but it seems when the ag beans started to dry down they quit hitting the forage beans too.
I know that acorns are the preferred food right now, but we don't have hardly any acorn production at the farm this year, and almost zero mature oaks at home, and all the acorns that did drop have been eaten already. Both the plots at home and at the farm 200 miles away with forage beans have seen the same drop in activity. I don't think the acorns are the reason they left the beans.
Is this a diet change for them that just happens to occur when the ag beans stop growing? Do they just stop hitting green browse and go to more high carb food? I have a hard time believing that because they are still hammering the alfalfa at our farm every morning and night. Just having a hard time figuring out why they left the beans...
I know that acorns are the preferred food right now, but we don't have hardly any acorn production at the farm this year, and almost zero mature oaks at home, and all the acorns that did drop have been eaten already. Both the plots at home and at the farm 200 miles away with forage beans have seen the same drop in activity. I don't think the acorns are the reason they left the beans.
Is this a diet change for them that just happens to occur when the ag beans stop growing? Do they just stop hitting green browse and go to more high carb food? I have a hard time believing that because they are still hammering the alfalfa at our farm every morning and night. Just having a hard time figuring out why they left the beans...