You have to be careful when it comes to deer nutrition. Grasses are high in fiber and difficult for deer to digest. Exept for cereal grains such as wheat, oats, rye, and ryegrass.
In their natural habitat, deer normally choose the following for forage:
Browse: oak leaves and acorns, yaupon, greenbriar, hackberry, mulberry, sumac, hawthorns, poison oak, American beautyberry, wild cherry and plum, wild grape, honeysuckle, dogwood, elm, blackberry and dewberry, acacias, walnut, and chinaberry. The will utilize additional plants species depending upon the area you are located.
Forbs (weeds): Illinois bundle flower, euphorbias, bayflower, tickclovers, clover, verbena, wild lettuce, wild onions, old man’s beard, wildbean, snoutbean, lespedezas, spiderwort, vetches, lamb’s quarters, plantain, groundcherry, pigweed, carelessweed, and partridge pea.
Grasses: rescue grass, wintergrass, witchgrass, panic grasses, sedges, and rushes, as well as wild and cultivated rye, oats, and wheat.
I love deer. We also have herds of pronghorn and about 70 miles north of us there are huge herds of elk. Fuck city living.
