Here in Indiana the deer typically won't eat baled alfalfa. I thought I'd try it since they were coming out of the woods to try and find anything they could to eat, I didn't want to put out a couple hundred pounds of corn just to feed the 'coons and squirrels. There are so many 'coon here that they will eat 80# of feed in one night.
The deer ate some of the alfalfa, but not all and I only put out 1/2 of a compressed bale.