Monster Mule Deer Record/Arizona

[Art Eatman]

Then why do hill country deer in Texas get all lathered up about corn? Not an ear grown withing fifty or a hundred miles of a heckuva lot of deer--but they sure look upon corn as seriously good yum-yums.

Just for the heck of it I'm gonna try apple cores--after I eat the apple, considering today's prices.

 

[Freedom_fighter_in_IL]

Then why do hill country deer in Texas get all lathered up about corn?

From what I gather, it is because it is a monocot (Grain) and since grains give off a particular scent that is attractive to browsing animals, it basically signals the "OK" signal to deer. It is one of the few things that does this. Nature at it's strangest. I am no Biologist just been in the woods 40+ years and have done my best to study up on the animals I hunt and have discussed many things like this with many biologists. But the old "Hell if I know" rings true on more than one thing when it comes to deer!