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Doe eating cedar
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10/04/16 05:05 PM
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Have any of you ever seen deer eating cedar? This doe stood there for several minutes and ate quite a bit of it. I've never seen that before.
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/04/16 05:15 PM
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Prob eating the berries on the cedar rather than eating the cedar
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/04/16 05:23 PM
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I've never seen a whitetail in Texas browse on cedar unless the habitat is extremely stressed. She's got plenty else around her that looks to be good nutrition and she appears to be in excellent shape, so perhaps it is the berries?
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/04/16 05:25 PM
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I need to check that tree for berries. She was eating big mouthfuls of it.
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/04/16 05:25 PM
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Maybe she hit the piece pipe and is a little hungry if you will...?
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/04/16 05:26 PM
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I have seen them eat the berries and sometimes it looks like to me that they are eating the new growth put on by cedar bushes.
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/04/16 05:32 PM
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Maybe has something to do with the acidity of the cedar. That's odd. Never seen them eat cedar before.
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/04/16 05:34 PM
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Prob eating the berries on the cedar rather than eating the cedar They are actually quite tasty. They will gorge on them.
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/04/16 06:05 PM
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I Feed Indian Corn. The deer love it and all the colors make them stay at the feeder longer.
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/05/16 06:26 PM
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Cedar berries would be my guess.....
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/05/16 06:32 PM
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I have seen them eat cedar on rare occasions in the Hill Country. More of them eating the berries though.
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/05/16 06:41 PM
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I had one under my stand nibbling at the cedar tree I was sitting in just the other day. She was being very selective though guess there could have been a few beeries but didn't notice any. The goats will strip the bark off of them before they touch the needles
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/05/16 11:25 PM
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Nothing odd about a deer eating cedar.
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/05/16 11:29 PM
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I bet she's going to taste like
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/05/16 11:45 PM
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Re: Doe eating cedar
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10/06/16 03:05 AM
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I know that up in the hill country around Canyon lake there are way too many deer in some areas due to lack of population control. The land isn't particularly fertile and what few grasses and forbs there are there are a lot of cedar bushes. You can clearly see a browse line about the height where a deer can reach, and I've actually witnessed them eating the cedar. The deer look small and malnourished as well. I would like to add that was a few years ago during drought conditions so they may be better off now.
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Thursday at 12:45 PM #33 Once i learned that i didn't "NEED" to kill something, and that if i did kill something all the fun stopped and work began, i was a much better hunter.
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