What can you feed a family of deer 🦌 to keep them around your home?

salt licks are a good draw, but there are also snack blocks you can get at your local farm store (like TSC or Bomgaars) that you can place in your yard for them

corn

Corn...they love it!

corn they love. Variety of plants and flowers as well

Dry corn, apples, molasses, and you can also purchase a salt block for deer.

They will destroy most of the plants you have.

Corn. They'll love you forever. You can find the dry bagged corn at all feed stores. Even like Ace Hardware & Tractor Supply carries them. Heck, during the winter months - even WalMart carries them. Enjoy!!

You can put out hay bales. But it's a bad idea unless you plan to do it forever, they do become dependent. And they will eat other landscaping as long as they are there :)

I cannot imagine your wanting to keep deer around your home. They will eat every flowering plant you have and they will totally mess up your lawn during rutting season.

Daylilies!

Dry corn and apples.

Got to be careful with cracked corn attracting eveybody else from coons to rats...

Wet cob, from the farm feed store! Cheap, easy.

Soybeans. We had a watermelon patch and wild deer destroyed them..so watermelon...

I am not judging but please make a decision wisely. It is a thoughtful idea to want to feed the deer. My aunt and uncle feed elk year round. These wild animals will become dependent on you though for their food, so once you start it is a commitment. Leaving a treat every once in awhile would probably be a better way to go. Also don't know where you live but you have to worry about hunters during hunting season. My aunt and uncle had them shooting at the elk from the road and coming on to their property at night.

I wouldn't encourage the deer, but if you must, plant daylilies. They're pretty, at least.

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Your prized roses.

My friend in Helena Montana ,has deer resting in her back yard under the trees. She has no flowers because the deer have eaten them all

Corn

I think it's against the law to put out hay, corn and such to feed deer. There's a disease they are prone to if they gather in large groups and which can be transmitted to cows I believe. Also be aware of potential for tick borne illnesses. We had a few come eat from a crabapple tree in our backyard a couple summers ago, loved to watch them.

Actually it is harmful to feed deer , they become dependent and become people friendly. Living in Northern Michigan I was. Excited to feed them. Then in front of my home on our quite rd. A mom a deer and twins were hit mom died fast one twin died in my husbands arms. The other had to be shot in my yard. Please don't feed deer

They like berries and some type of other fruit. Apples, peaches, I think, or Google it.

good thought, but really should not be feeding wildlife, once you start , you can open yourself to a host of problems, bears, raccoons , rats, etc, sorry bad idea

I am going with the folks who say no to feeding deer or any other wildlife..they are supposed to remain wild and have to learn to forage to survive without human interaction...you will create so many problems for you and for them... just enjoy seeing them in passing on your property as we do.. nature takes it's course...

We feed ours deer corn & horse sweet feed & I also cut up apples wvery day. We get up to 20 deer @ a time. It's wonderful watching the babies grow up & the bucks antlers come in!!!

Here in our area, it is illegal to feed to keep deer around, especially because of the "wasting disease" which is prevalent in deer from our Upper Peninsula. Deer can become a problem, so it is best just to admire them when you have the opportunity, and not make "pets" out of them.