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mktvr
Joined: 08 Feb 2008
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 10:55 pm Post subject: Will black bears eat corn??? |
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Hi guys, i was planning on feeding deer behind my house with some corn from the local grain store, but before i do that will i have a proble with black bears eating the corn before the deer get to it??
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Chuck-n-Alaska
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Location: Alaska
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| Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2008 11:09 pm Post subject: |
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| If you have bears you stand a good chance of getting hit. I've used grain many as bait and it works fine. |
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Hammer1
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 7:20 am Post subject: |
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Welcome to BGH :thumbsup1:
if the bear can smell it, it will eat it, unless there is something more tasty, like maggots, rotten fish, compost carts etc, which usually takes preference.
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mktvr
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| Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2008 1:37 pm Post subject: |
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| if i put out apples w/ the corn, they will smell those for sure i would think. |
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billythekidrock
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Location: OlyWa
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| Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 9:02 am Post subject: |
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| Yep. I knew a guy who put out cracked corn for deer, but the bears woud just plop down on the piles and scoop it up. Then they started damaging the turkey feeders as well. |
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mktvr
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| Posted: Tue Feb 12, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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will moose eat the corn as well??? that is part of the reason i dont want to start a food plot, too much work to have a moose eat it all in a night. i was thinking the corn would be the way to go if the bears and the moose stay away .
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Chuck-n-Alaska
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| Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 10:45 am Post subject: |
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| I've never had moose bother our corn the few time we've grown it but they'll hit our broccoli in a new york minute. |
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