Acorns & Deer ?

[gafishnut]

Ok, here's a question for your deer hunters I need help on. Dose the deer eat the whole acorn, or break it open and eat just the nut? :

 

[Arrow Flinger]

He eats the whole thing and swallows a bunch of them whole.

 

[gafishnut]

Talk about getting your fiber!

 

[Arrow Flinger]

Yep, good thing they chew cud like a cow. :speechles

 

[How2fish]

One of the things looks like I won't get to hear this year..is on a cold clear calm morning that "pop" sound a deer makes when biting an acorn in half !! By the time it gets cold the acorns will be gone! Heck at this rate it may be spring b4 it gets cold...

 

[Scouter]

How2fish, what do you mean, the acorns will be gone before it gets colds. Every where I have been, the ground has been covered. The trees are still loaded and the acorns are still coming down. There will be plenty of acorns when the cold weather hits.

 

[How2fish]

One of the things looks like I won't get to hear this year..is on a cold clear calm morning that "pop" sound a deer makes when biting an acorn in half !! By the time it gets cold the acorns will be gone! Heck at this rate it may be spring b4 it gets cold...

Scouter I was funnin ya...but only a little its the last week of Oct and the extended forecast calls for highs in the 70's for the next week at least...I HOPE your right...

 

[HT2]

gafish.....

The only thing they don't eat is the "cap" of the nut.....

They pop it off then they "CHOW DOWN"!!!!!!!

 

[PHIL M]

I shot a buck once that had 2 or 3 gallons worth of giant white oak acorns in him.not a single one of them was chewed up. I walked by the gut pile the next day, and all of them had been eaten. the only tracks that where there where deer!

 

[reylamb]

Heck, most of the nuts we have on the ground now are rotting. The deer just did not seem to hit them this year because of the storms. Then again, about 75% of our crop was on the ground before archery season opened.

 

[How2fish]

The only thing they don't eat is the "cap" of the nut.....

They pop it off then they "CHOW DOWN"!!!!!!!

That was the "pop" I meant in my 1st post...on a calm morning that sound carries..!!