Deer Feeder Helper Blog

Keeping the varmint population down can be an effective way to reduce your feed cost and maintenance problems. Unchecked varmint populations can consume the entire amounts dispensed by spincast feeders and wreak havoc on free flow protein feeders. Raccoons are probably the biggest enemy of us deer feeder users. Besides eating all your corn and protein, comprimising your quality deer management program. They can be quite destructive to the feeder timers, causing excessive repair cost, frustration, and disappointing hunting trips due to a malfunctioning deer feeder. Varmint guards surrounding your feeder timer is a must. Some deer feeder timers have guards as part of the housing. I prefer to use springs to keep the varmint guard affixed to the timer as it is easily removed. I set live traps at all my feeders and work them religiously. They have proved effective but require constant time and attention. Never abandon a working trap. One trapper was charged with felony cruelity to animal after leaving several hogs to die in a trap. I have been told that using fly bait mixed with a sweetened medium can be fatally toxic and quick to raccoons. Reducing the raccoons, skunks, armidillos, and opposums is also beneficial to the quail and turkey populations, as these varmints love and seek the eggs of these ground nesting birds in the springtime.

Tags: deer, feeder, feeders, hunting, quality management, texas, whitetail

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