Spent Grain...Deer Bait??

Anybody ever use their spent grain for deer bait? Just wondering if it would work.

It'll work. Edwort has several pictures of deer eating grain posted on HBT.

Around here the deer are apparently from the snotty section of the forest and will not touch it. I've seen old grain piles over my back fence growing mold.

I've been dumping my grains in the frozen remains of my garden this winter and have been watching the deer go after it when it warms enough for the grain to thaw.

Yeah the deer and other critters in my neighborhood love when I brew. All of the grain from the previous batch is gone when I discard the next batch. Sometimes I feel like they are watching from the woods just waiting for me to be done =)

I usually feed my spent grain to my cousin's beefalo.

My dog seems to eat it before anything else can get too it first. She then pays for it in the next few days and I get to clean up that too.

The mule deer in my backyard won't touch it. Maybe only whitetails like it or something. I live in the mountains outside Salt Lake City and we have plenty of animals that could eat the spent grain if they wanted to. Nothing touches it and it's accumulating into a big pile (frozen pile now). Something ate my lab retriever though...

The mule deer in my backyard won't touch it. Maybe only whitetails like it or something. I live in the mountains outside Salt Lake City and we have plenty of animals that could eat the spent grain if they wanted to. Nothing touches it and it's accumulating into a big pile (frozen pile now).

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I dump spent grains behind a stump in the backyard on the edge of the woods. Nothing seems to eat it. Granted it's next to my fire pit but still.... I see deer in the yard from time to time. I wish it worked, I'm an avid hunter and most of the meat I eat is venison.

For the record, hunting deer over bait is ridiculously hit or miss.

Ed Wort in 3....2....1.....

I tried to feed it to crazy Irish ex girlfriend's Llama's (you remember her)...they didn't like it. But it might have gone all lacto and then I froze it till I took it over there, so that might have been why.

Chimone said:

Ed Wort in 3....2....1.....

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Ok, here it is.

I live in the county and the Whitetail around here don't like it nor do the turkeys.

I guess it can't hurt to give it a try. I'll keep the grains from tomorrows brew and drop them off at my sisters house. My BIL will let me know what happens.

This is a compost pile not a bait pile, any deer which are eating from it will be shot.

Cheers

Ed,

That's awful nice of you to provide the birdbath so they have something to wash it down with.

BrewinJack said:

This is a compost pile not a bait pile, any deer which are eating from it will be shot.

Cheers

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You should post a sign next to it that says that. That way, the DNR won't try to ding you for baiting. You can say that you gave the deer fair warning.

Send it to me. I'm hungry.

Obviously deer like the grain in some areas of the country.

One thing I've personally observed with grains is that when brewing AG, there isn't much flavor left in the grain at all. When I was steeping they still had quite a bit of residual sugar.

Looks like it works on elk!

Not really!