Baiting with carrots?

Ed Smurf

Ed Smurf

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I was recently told that using carrots (where it is legal) will cause harm to deer. I can buy 50lb of carrots for $3.00 around here. My stand usually has a mixture of carrots, apples and maize plus other cereals. Is there any basis to this claim?. Not a good year for apples around here so carrots will be popular.
 
The deer around here have never seen nor heard of nor smelled a carrot before and won't eat them .
 
Ed Smurf said:
I was recently told that using carrots (where it is legal) will cause harm to deer. I can buy 50lb of carrots for $3.00 around here. My stand usually has a mixture of carrots, apples and maize plus other cereals. Is there any basis to this claim?. Not a good year for apples around here so carrots will be popular.
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You're paying too much! This was 6000 pounds for $100.




Superbrad said:
If you bait with them and they come to eat and subsequently end up killed, I would say that those carrots were certainly harmful to their health and well being.....
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This..^^^
 
I guess the 50 -100 deer I see every spring on a farmers excess carrot field need to know they are not good for them. Buggers will dig them right out of the ground.
 
Superbrad said:
If you bait with them and they come to eat and subsequently end up killed, I would say that those carrots were certainly harmful to their health and well being.....
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Was going to say just this. I think the lead you're going to throw their way is more harmful to them than the carrots. Worst case, if you make a bad shot, the carrots will do them in!!
 
Apples, carrots, grapes, pumpkins (smashed up) turnip tops and sugar beets all work very well at our camp ... where there are no household gardens or commercial
farms within miles.

I have also read a few articles and papers stating corn is not good to feed deer, although they love to get into it on the farm.

We fill the back of a "one-ton" dually dump truck for about $80 ... 4 - 4'X4' bins of "culls" from the Bradford Marsh/Holland Landing area.
 
beretta boy said:
Apples, carrots, grapes, pumpkins (smashed up) turnip tops and sugar beets all work very well at our camp ... where there are no household gardens or commercial
farms within miles.

I have also read a few articles and papers stating corn is not good to feed deer, although they love to get into it on the farm.

We fill the back of a "one-ton" dually dump truck for about $80 ... 4 - 4'X4' bins of "culls" from the Bradford Marsh/Holland Landing area.
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What I've found about Ontario is, you guys are terribly wasteful with vegetables, not uncommon to see fields full of stuff that doesn't meet the grocery store standards, just left to rot. Our deer have to do with a much more mundane diet. :)

Grizz
 
The pick up load of carrots gets shared among 3 camps and 2 home places. Last year there was very little snow ... by Christmas, no carrots visible anywhere !
No waste, no spoilage.

At home it's tough keeping them out of the flower beds and garden ! In the garden, seems the swiss chard goes first ... then beet tops. Oh yeah, they love turnip tops too,
and turnips that have been chopped into quarters. The black bears like some of the truck too ... keeps them away from the bird feeders and theiir paw prints off the deck and window sills. ;)
 
beretta boy said:
The pick up load of carrots gets shared among 3 camps and 2 home places. Last year there was very little snow ... by Christmas, no carrots visible anywhere !
No waste, no spoilage.

At home it's tough keeping them out of the flower beds and garden ! In the garden, seems the swiss chard goes first ... then beet tops. Oh yeah, they love turnip tops too,
and turnips that have been chopped into quarters. The black bears like some of the truck too ... keeps them away from the bird feeders and theiir paw prints off the deck and window sills. ;)
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I was talking with my neighbor about planting a bunch of beets in the back of my property for the deer. the wife did some corn in the garden last year, and we didn't get to eat it all. so perhaps planting the deer their own mini food plot they might leave ours alone lol.
 
crash277 said:
I was talking with my neighbor about planting a bunch of beets in the back of my property for the deer. the wife did some corn in the garden last year, and we didn't get to eat it all. so perhaps planting the deer their own mini food plot they might leave ours alone lol.
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Haha .... I wouldn't count on it !
 
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