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Jesse's Hunting > Hunting Articles > Articles > From the Blogs - Using Supplements To Improve Your Deer Herd
From the Blogs - Using Supplements To Improve Your Deer Herd
Brad Swadley - JHO ProStaff
- Dallas, TX
January 28, 2009
ProStaffer Brad Swadley blogs about how providing protein supplements can improve the health and quality of your whitetail deer.
It’s been a rough hunting season. Our lease is going through its second season of drought. Conditions make it tough for whitetail deer and other animals to get the nutrients they need to maintain a good healthy lifestyle in the wild. As with most in Texas, we use corn as a basic food source and supplement that with protein feed. Others supplement through the use of food plots as well. But protein is the staple whitetails crave and that is what we focus on trying to provide them through our supplemental feeding program.
Protein as a whitetail growth development staple is typically drawn from natural forage via various clovers, soybeans and alfalfa. For example, clover is a big source of protein for whitetails, and in most normal varieties, it can contain anywhere from 13% to 25% of protein. Newer variants of clover have almost doubled the amount of protein found within them.
Read the rest of this post on Brad's Blog here!
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