Feeding/Feeder Question

[Big7]

When hand feeding from a bag or bucket, is it better to put the feed in handful size little piles or strow it about like a barrel feeder would?

I'm trying to put put a little feed out without having to run it on the feed site no more than absolutely necessary so I'm not disturbing the site and also not "wasting" feed. In other words, making them work for it- but I definitely want them to want use it.

Zero hogs in the area but a fair amount of squirrel but I ain't worried about feeding them a little. Field mice, coon, etc, are probably around but how much can they eat? Not much. I just don't want the deer walking in there and eating it all in one sitting. There are a LOT of deer in the area where the feed sites will be.

Will be using feed corn and might try some of that sweet horse feed I posted from Social Circle the other day.

Thanks For The Replies.

 

[Liberty]

Just an opinion, but I think that a knee-high pile of corn where there has never been any may look a little suspicious to more intelligent mature animal.

 

[basshappy]

@Big7 If you can set a camera where you put your feed - you may be surprised by 1) how much a coon can eat and 2) how many coons will be at your dining table. Additionally a hungry deer will eat a lot of your broadcast feed, too.

 

[SC Hunter]

I take a bucket, tilt it sideways under my arm and rake out corn and "throw" it out scattering it about. They mill around eating it and don't just stand at a pile and eat.

 

[Gadestroyer74]

You’re gonna have a hard time keeping corn there. We sling some on the ground. Put out 120 to 150 pounds at a sight. 3 days it’s gone..

 

[johnpoulan83]

I don’t believe there is a correct way to put out corn

 

[chrislibby88]

I would lay one kernel at a time, oriented north south, no closer than 6 inches from the nearest kernel, and no further than 7 inches. One bag daily should suffice.

 

[livinoutdoors]

Leave pac man trails all through the woods so they follow it around n then bang!

 

[antharper]

I like to scatter it . All in the leaves and grass if possible

 

[specialk]

cut a corner out the end of a bag, hold that end toward the ground, then start walking, they'll find it.....deer are browsers, they wont camp out on top of a pile till its gone....they'll nibble on it and move on........ but will come back later.....

 

[specialk]

I like to scatter it . All in the leaves and grass if possible

i do too........in the spring......lol

 

[johnpoulan83]

I would lay one kernel at a time, oriented north south, no closer than 6 inches from the nearest kernel, and no further than 7 inches. One bag daily should suffice.

Give all the secrets away ‍

 

[DynamicDennis]

i do too........in the spring......lol

Bird seed is easier to hide... A friend told me....

 

[Blackston]

I don’t believe there is a correct way to put out corn

Cmon you have told me I was doing it all
Wrong before

 

[Blackston]

To answer question this should do it

 

[Kris87]

Do as one poster said, tilt bucket sideways and rake them golden acorns as far as you can scatter them. Don't pile them up. You'll get much longer and better results making them work for them. Its not like they're in there eating and getting mad at how you threw it out.

 

[Danuwoa]

I like to chew the corn up first and spit it into the deers’ mouths.

 

[antharper]

When hand feeding from a bag or bucket, is it better to put the feed in handful size little piles or strow it about like a barrel feeder would?

I'm trying to put put a little feed out without having to run it on the feed site no more than absolutely necessary so I'm not disturbing the site and also not "wasting" feed. In other words, making them work for it- but I definitely want them to want use it.

Zero hogs in the area but a fair amount of squirrel but I ain't worried about feeding them a little. Field mice, coon, etc, are probably around but how much can they eat? Not much. I just don't want the deer walking in there and eating it all in one sitting. There are a LOT of deer in the area where the feed sites will be.

Will be using feed corn and might try some of that sweet horse feed I posted from Social Circle the other day.

Thanks For The Replies.

I’ll also add that if you are putting it out on the county land you were talking about poaching on I’d for sure scatter it ! Good luck , hope you catch a big one

 

[Blackston]

Dang I went to church and the thread disappeared…. What I miss

 

[Ruger#3]