How do you feed them, how much are they, and do most feed stores carry it??? Please post any pictures of your feeders/alfalfa as well as your experiences with it.

If your planning on feed a bunch you need to find a way to buy it by the truck load. Great feed but very pricey if you buy it from the feed store.

Here is another feeder. The coons had destroyed my spinner but the deer are still coming around.

does rain ruin the alfalfa? I was thinking about putting it back in the woods under some trees

I put some out this year back behind one of my feeders...it sat there until it finally withered away...nothing ever touched it that I saw. Looks like they may have rooted it around a bit the first day or two but after that, nothing. I figured they'd go wild over it...

From what I've observed most of it gets eaten before you have much waste. Of course that is if you have good numbers of deer in the area.

I have a feeling it might not get touched by me either but I might give it a shot. I am stickign out cottonseed for the 1st time this weekend.

Last weekend I had turkey feathers all over the bale under a feeder. The turkey and deer have been hitting it hard. The only downside I think is that I may be drawing hogs in with it too.

ccbaseball the reason Cody is haveing issues with it is because of the massive amounts of Indian Corn he is feeding out.....

HAHAHAHA they are flocking to the indian corn and not alfalfa. enough of that indian corn stuff lol I dont want the thread to get changed to an indian corn thread. Thanks for far for the help guys

I've got pictures of a dozen deer eating everything BUT the hay...

Cody, it one of those things they have to get use to... Like trunips, had deer walk over them for almost three years before they started eating them... One thing is for sure if you have Axis... they will clean up the hay for sure

What's a trunip?

"turnip"... Thank you for the ticket, to what municipality do i need to pay the grammer police.

I have one area that during cool or cold weather I can't keep it in my hay barrel. Then in other sites they just will not eat it/ If and when I figure out how ta post pictures I will show yall a barrel I rigged up to feed alfalfa.
To get them to eating it I first scattered some underneath my corn feeder. Now they will not eat the steams they will pick the leaves out and leave the steams.
If you plant turnip greens mixed into your fall food plots deer will eat the greens and come summer you will only have some prety good size turnips just above ground I knew i shulda took picks of those turnip greens in my food plot.

I tried it on my ranch last year and nothing touched it.

I have been feeding a little alfalfa to the deer and they clean it up everyday. Also some mixed feed that I feed my goats and they eat it before they do the corn.

Axis love it... it's like candy...

I throw a couple of bales out on the ground every time I'm at the ranch and it gets hit pretty hard. I know the elk/red deer love it and will camp out by the house until it's gone but I've also sat in a blind and watched the WTD crowd around a bale. At my place (pretty high density of WTD and exotics) a 2 string bale lasts about 3-5 days, so it doesn't have a chance to mold. I also don't see a reason to use a bale feeder of any type.

I second what another poster said about buying in bulk----per bale it's very spendy.

As an aside, since the critters seem to camp out on a bale, I've found a bunch of sheds in those areas....like maybe 25-30 in the last month or so.

Regards,
Scott

Alfalfa is awsome!

find some peanut hay,deer will run over you to get to it.

Cubes work better and are easier... But if there is hogs around you will have everyone of them from 3 counties at your feeder

I tried feeding alfalfa but they never touched it.I finaly threw it away because it was rotten.I am going to try again but put less out at a time.Did it take them awhile to start eating it?

Here is the one I use. Hard to see in the pic but you get the idea.

Here is a better pic of it.