the ground is covered in walton where I hunt.
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Slow deer season? This may be why...
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I looked into it because it's been so bad. I found out that a wet spring washes away the pollen. There are a few other things that matter. Certain oaks will have good acorns every,other year or every third year.
Yeah I've heard that too. I can't remember which it is but members of one family (white oak family / red oak family) produce every year while the other produces every other year.
I do know the water oak produces almost every year. While they are smaller and have a higher tannin content than the white oaks, they drop later in the year and are often deer magnets when everything else in gone.
Wow, that's a lot of deer food you got there. Good point on this being why there have been fewer sightings.
I've never seen deer eat the big acorns, they like the little red ones more in my experience. My parents have a tree that just pours them big acorns, I used to collect them and put them where I hunt and they would just rot on the ground.
That's usually a very good approach unless every oak is heavily producing. Then you have to hope you've chosen the right tree to set up shop over.
white oak acorns are the BEST
Deer like the white oaks best because the tannin content is lowest in those as compared to acorns produced in the red oak family. Tannin produces a bitter taste. I've always thought white oaks were pretty big compared to some of the other varieties though the northern red oak produces some whoppers.
I 100% agree with this. I've seen deer walk through a pile of corn and through red oak acorns to get to white oak acorns.
