We have 3 deer feeders feeding pretty much exclusively corn to the deer, turkey, and various other creatures that sneak some. We do it to bc we love watching them and they entertain us, and we thought we were helping them. The guy next door hunts his property and allegedly only shoots the big ones and takes 1-2 per year for food. Anyway this past week he sent me a photo of a buck he got and said his stomach was full of corn and that was not good. Later he sent me links to sites saying feeding a lot of corn is bad for the deer and can even kill them. Our feeders dispense about 30-40 lbs per week and the hunted area including his and the guy on the other side of him is about 300 acres. He says he feeds corn from one feeder one time a day and for 10 secs. He has food plots and all eht property is about 60% wooded and has lots of privet and other things that deer can eat even in the winter to add to the variety other than corn. We will typically see 10-15 deer in out pasture out from one of the feeders. Is the guy right, are the deer over the area "gluttonizing" on our corn and not eating anything else, and thus endangering their health? Thanks.
