Cotton Seed, anyone feed it to the deers??

Where are you trying to use it? My uncle tried to use in the Ms Delta because they used it in Texas. Ended up burning about 800 pounds of it because the deer wouldn’t eat it.

I know a guy with a High Fence operation in Texas, and that’s what he feeds. I don’t know anything about where he gets it, price, or how he feeds it( plain or mixed with something else, just heard him mention it a couple times, as good protein to build his herd up

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anyone feed it to the deers

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Deers, gooses, sheeps. They all eat it.

It doesn’t like moisture at all. That’s why it works so well in the drier climate like Texas.

We tried it at our lease in Lebeau and they did not touch it

This is all correct from what the ranch in South Texas told us. They put it out in what look like hay cribs. I spent a weekend watching deer pass by corn to get to those cribs of cotton seed fluff. Looked like they were eating the stuffing out of a pillow. Supposedly once they got on it, they preferred it over corn or protein pellets. Considered trying it in MS, but figured the rain would make a mess of it.

We tried it in our troughs that deer eat thousands of pounds of corn and protein out of weekly. They ate everything around it and left it in the bottom for months. Eventually we scooped it out. Located in NW Mississippi.

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ate everything around it and left it in the bottom

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I've heard the same thing from everyone I've talked to in LA and MS. Guess they're just not used to it when they have so much rice bran, corn, and acorns, etc every year. It's like my 6 yr old won't try a nutter butter bc all she's ever had is oreos.