Oats for Deer? / Steam Crimped- Will deer eat them?

[markT]

Neighbor is feeding corn to our neighborhood local deer. I see what corn does to deer ( yellow fat) and I know what is does to us..
Question: local store has "steam crimped oats." Do deer like these and will they eat them?

 

[TrapperBR549]

I have watched deer eat wheat seeds right off the stalk so I imagine they will eat oats as well. Steam crimped just means they have been processed some to make them easier for animals to digest them. That is what we always fed our horses and mules.

 

[okie]

I think the yellow is coming from other things. Deer here have white fat and eat corn. never seen yellow on deer here. Im a novice cattle feeder. We always look at carcasses at plant---mine are white, fed only 3 things: corn, soy meal and cotton seed hulls. the yellow and orange carcasses are fed bi-products (mainly DDG). I hope this helps.
corn is cheap and full of energy---look up nutrition contents at the dairy one feed library. quite telling

YES theyll eat em. put a camera on a pile of each...and a pile of wheat bran while you are at it

 

[markT]

YES theyll eat em. put a camera on a pile of each...and a pile of wheat bran while you are at it

^^^^ Good eye deer!!!

 

[markT]

Dang Squirrels love em.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

Our deer have white fat, they are in field corn, soybean and wild browse. Muscle is still lean, so even vac freezing effects the taste.

 

[Clancy]

Corn doesn’t cause yellow fat. I feed 20-50 tons of supplemental feed a year and not a speck of yellow fat. Some of it is plain or mixed corn and some of the pellets contain corn.

That being said, corn not tested for aflatoxin could cause liver damage and thereby the liver could go into attack mode and be the cause of yellow fat, but that’s a remote possibility. All of our corn is aflatoxin free, so it’s not an issue where I’m at.

Deer are crazy about roasted soybean, alfalfa and rice bran. I feed all 3 depending on the environment at the time. Give those a try if you want to be different.

 

[Coyotefurharvester]

We can't bait/feed deer. Minerals,salt and food plots are legal. My mineral mix has dicalcium phosphate, non medicated trace mineral and ice cream(rock) salt. I put it out near fresh water and shade. This will grow bone here.

 

[Knotwild]

This is just an observation of the plant itself. I doubt they would eat ripe oats off the plant because each seed is surrounded with dry husk. They might like it when it's green.

But steam crimped oats look pretty good. I bet they would like them.

 

[Kylongrifle32]

Add some powdered molasses to it and they will enjoy it just as much as corn.