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I have always wondered what do deer eat in the wintertime and how do they get shelter from the bad weather?


2 posted on 11/20/2015 9:40:09 AM PST by cradle of freedom
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To: cradle of freedom

They eat a lot of acorns and other seed/nut crops throughout the winter. I have several oaks and I see them routinely on my property.


4 posted on 11/20/2015 9:41:25 AM PST by fwdude (The last time the GOP ran an "extremist," Reagan won 44 states.)
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To: cradle of freedom
Any given day I have 3 - 11 white tail deer/fawns traipsing through the yard. In the fall/winter have two ivy covered slopes on either side of the house and the deer bed down for the night. Last winter it was 10’ and saw 12 deer just bedded down in the snow, spaced about 5 feet apart (surprised they weren't huddled together).

As for eating, they have rooted up about 2,000 flowering bulbs, eaten hundreds of hostas, hundreds of Japanese forest grasses, used dozens of ceramic urns filled with begonias/vines as personal buffet servers, stripped off bark from many newly planted saplings. Any landscaped lush property is a smorgasbord for wintertime deer. This year was the worst.

We have the usual arguments in the area, hire bow hunters to cull the herds vs the anguished pleas to save 'Bambi".


12 posted on 11/20/2015 10:02:32 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen (Was addicted to the Hokey Pokey...but I turned myself around...((@))
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To: cradle of freedom

“I have always wondered what do deer eat in the wintertime and how do they get shelter from the bad weather?”

In my personal experience, they will eat a Pontiac Grand Prix, a Ford Bronco II, and a Ford Mustang.


26 posted on 11/20/2015 10:22:39 AM PST by Made In The USA (Rap music: Soundtrack of the retarded.)
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To: cradle of freedom

they wear a fur coat all the time...


47 posted on 11/20/2015 4:27:13 PM PST by nixonsnose (you never know how much pee splatters until you are standing at the urinal in flip flops.)
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