Brad Rucks is faced with improvising his food plots like never before in the face of heavy spring rain followed by a mid-summer drought.
Tag: Drought
How to Help Deer During a Drought
An Ani-Logics mineral block can keep the stress of a drought on a deer to a minimum and help them reach their maximum antler growth.
Manage Deer Food Sources Carefully in Drought Conditions
Antler quality parallels the nutrition status of a deer’s diet, which is composed of a variety of succulents, particularly forbs and brush species. Although nutritionally strong and highly digestible, forbs occur primarily in spring and occasionally, depending on rainfall, throughout the year. By Bob Zaiglin Protein-fortified forbs grow antlers, but brush sustains deer. During extended […]