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Anyone mixing milo in their corn feeders #9078653 07/19/24 03:36 PM
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I was wondering if anyone was mixing milo with their corn in there feeders? Is there any benefit?

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No milo, but for years I used STAMPEDE made by Micobe Feed in Hamilton. It is a roasted soy bean and corn mix. It provides 20% protein and a killer aroma that will bring in the deer!


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I've used a soy bean/corn mix in the past. Seemed to work well. I wish I could say it brought more deer and hogs in, though that was near impossible to measure. Everything was always eaten. I may add a bag or two the 500 lb viewing feeder we have out front about 100 yards from the house. It's a no shoot feeder, wife and I enjoy watching what comes up to feed. One year we had three small hogs around 30lbs every morning/evening and at night. The could care less how close you got to them as long as you didn't stop. If you stopped they'd trot off into the woods and wait for you to leave before coming back. My neighbor shot two later that fall. Only saw one until around X-mas and it disappeared.


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My uncles mix milo with corn in their spin cast feeders. It works just fine. The deer will eat the corn and you will have lots of dove and quail after that milo!

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We used to use Milo, or even chicken scratch in our feeders when hunting in an area that had turkey. As said above, the other birds loved it too. They eat a lot more of it than the corn, and being smaller it would fill the voids so the feeder still held as much corn, plus a bag or two of the smaller stuff for the birds.


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Back when we use to hunt in Lampasas County, we would put corn, milo, and sunflower seeds in our feeders during spring time. The turkeys would hammer it.

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I do but my feeder is a yard feeder for deer, coons, squirrels, and birds….

My uncle did it in Lampasas for the turkey


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Re: Anyone mixing milo in their corn feeders [Re: 12th Man] #9079173 07/20/24 11:11 PM
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I put out pie pans with milo and mostly corn. Works fine like that ...just for grins..lol I saw more bucks and coons in the pen than normal...something larger and heaver will help with more deer in your pen...if ya have one....Makes for more feeding stations.
More feeding times works just as good though. I also planted corn in my pens which lasted until late December. Deer liked to chew on the corn stalks.

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Yes, for dove quail and turkeys.

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Normally put one bag of scratch to five bags of corn.

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I do it for turkeys. I think it helps.

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Originally Posted by jdickey
No milo, but for years I used STAMPEDE made by Micobe Feed in Hamilton. It is a roasted soy bean and corn mix. It provides 20% protein and a killer aroma that will bring in the deer!


I put out the same food, but it seemed to me like they left a lot of the soybean. I went back to straight corn.


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I always put a sack of milo on top of the corn where I want to attract the turkeys. The deer can't pick it up so there's something for the birds. The deer and axis are the first to arrive when the feeder goes off and very efficient at cleaning up all the corn.
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I put a bag of milo on top of the corn each filling for my central & west TX places that seems to bring in / hold the turkeys. Usually brings in a good crop of dove as well. I don't bother at my east TX place as there aren't any turkey and minimal dove. Dumping it on top seems to work well as the smaller milo seeds tend to work their way down thru the corn pretty evenly between fillings.


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