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<blockquote data-quote="wct12" data-source="post: 391557" data-attributes="member: 8117">The other portion of that is the deer still also self forage so they wont have to be fed the complete dietary requirements (think maybe half of that dollar amount.. you can find feed sources to supplement that have high quality nutrition besides straight alfalfa. For example in a winter where we yard 350ish deer, we roll out 1 grass alfalfa (or straight alfalfa) bale, 1 pea/oat/barley bale and every 4-5ish days and push snow for easier grazing.. granted.. deer still come forage on stuff in our hay yard and we leave some crop stand, but there is also a lot of sportsmens that will donate money to a program like that instead of watching deer die from starving to death. Our family had given bales to other sportsmen that are burning their own fuel (happily to see deer have a better chance of survival) because we enjoy the outdoors and hate watching deer starve to death in the winter. There are way more people around like this that just don't have the means to do it or contacts to find feed but would donate money quicker than we think.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wct12, post: 391557, member: 8117"] The other portion of that is the deer still also self forage so they wont have to be fed the complete dietary requirements (think maybe half of that dollar amount.. you can find feed sources to supplement that have high quality nutrition besides straight alfalfa. For example in a winter where we yard 350ish deer, we roll out 1 grass alfalfa (or straight alfalfa) bale, 1 pea/oat/barley bale and every 4-5ish days and push snow for easier grazing.. granted.. deer still come forage on stuff in our hay yard and we leave some crop stand, but there is also a lot of sportsmens that will donate money to a program like that instead of watching deer die from starving to death. Our family had given bales to other sportsmen that are burning their own fuel (happily to see deer have a better chance of survival) because we enjoy the outdoors and hate watching deer starve to death in the winter. There are way more people around like this that just don't have the means to do it or contacts to find feed but would donate money quicker than we think. [/QUOTE]

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