Events2Join

What Do Deer Eat?


A Guide to Common Native Deer Forages in Mississippi and the ...

Although they eat a variety of forages, as “concentrate selectors” deer select forages for their high quality and palatability, focusing on easily digestible ...

What Do White-Tailed Deer Eat? 20+ Foods They Enjoy - A-Z Animals

The young and small white-tailed deer face the greatest threat of predation. Adult deer can reach sizes of 4 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh ...

Unexpected Items in the Diet of the White-Tail Deer

I knew that some herbivores occasionally ate meat (hippos will do it, too), but I had no idea that white-tailed deer did that. Squirrels ...

Deer - Mass Audubon

What Do Deer Eat? White-tailed Deer are adaptable but selective herbivores, grazing and browsing the most nutritious plants available. Their diet consists of ...

How whitetail deer eating habits change in winter

In the summer the whitetail's diet is mainly herbaceous plants. In the fall, it shifts to being able to process mast (apples, acorns, beechnuts, ...

What Do Deer Eat in Fall And Early Winter? - GYT90

So what does a deer eat? Deer will primarily eat browse (woody portion of leaves and stems), forbs (broad-leaved plants), mast (acorns, apples, ...

Whitetail Deer | Maine Secretary of State Kids' Page

Deer will eat just about any type of foliage they can find. There are three types of deer: the grazers, who eat grass and roughage; the intermediate feeders, ...

All About Deer - Carolina Country

White-tailed deer consume 10 to 12 pounds of food every day. They will eat almost any vegetation: clover, grass, apples, acorns, trees (yes, trees). If food ...

The Food Plot Doctor - Whitetails Unlimited

Blackberries, where they are found, are one of the most important sources of fruit and green browse for deer. The green fruits turn red before they ripen to ...

The White-tailed Diet: More than just Acorns and Corn

But what about poison ivy, ragweed, and plants like prickly pear cactus or mistletoe? Are these eaten too? Knowing a little of what's preferred ...

White-tailed Deer Biology - Maryland DNR

Deer feed on nuts and berries, leaves, woody shoots and stems, grasses and cultivated crops. Some of their favorite natural foods include acorns, honeysuckle, ...

What Do Deer Eat? More Than You Think (and Probably Want to ...

Cedar may be more common in a deer's diet than what is generally believed but it may come down to tree preference. In “Cedar Through the Eyes of ...

White-Tailed Deer | Vermont Fish & Wildlife Department

In order to get the nutrition from such a wide variety of food that is hard to digest, a deer has four stomachs-just like a cow. This helps deer digest food ...

Feeding Deer - Deer Friendly

Poop should be removed. Food should be distributed, otherwise dominate deer may prevent younger and smaller deer from eating. Feeding deer is illegal in some ...

White-tailed Deer Food Habits and Preferences in the Cross ...

what the deer likes to eat. The importance value (importance) quantifies the volume of a particular plant species in the deer diet. Plants with a high ...

Fish & Wildlife | Feeding of Wild White-tailed Deer - NJDEP

Deer feeders are bad neighbors. Deer cannot meet all their nutritional needs from a food pile, and will consume the plantings of surrounding ...

White-tailed Deer | EEK WI

The white-tailed deer is an herbivore—it eats plants. Deer graze on tree leaves, broadleaved herbs, and berries in the summer and acorns, grass, and herbs ...

Wild About Illinois Deer!

The white-tailed deer is an herbivore, feeding on fruits, grasses, grains, vines, mushrooms, nuts and the leaves and twigs of trees and shrubs. It chews its cud ...

The Digestive System of A Deer

How does this happen? As deer begin to feed in the pasture, they eat very fast. Depending on the type and abundance of food, the deer can fill its stomach ...

Deer-Habitat Relationships - Game Commission

Forests provide deer with a place to eat, to rest, to escape, to bear and rear young. Like all animals, deer have certain living requirements essential to their ...