Interest in white-tailed deer management decades ago spurred all sorts of research on improving deer herds. Since that time, many habitat management practices have been implemented on properties across the whitetail’s range, but none are more popular than providing supplemental foods. Supplemental forages are often presented as food plots or as protein pellets for deer. And no matter how you slice it, there is nothing easier than providing good, stable nutrition to ensure that the whitetail deer on your property meet their genetic potential.
If asked, most managers and hunters would tell you that the foods with the highest percentage protein are best for deer. Although it is true that deer prefer high protein foods, there are no foods occurring in nature that are 100 percent protein. In fact, a whitetail deer would die if all it had to eat was a pure-protein diet. It just would not provide proper nutrition for the animal. Continue reading Protein Pellets for Deer: Feeding Whitetail