Comments on: White-tailed Deer Food Habits – What They Eat http://www.buckmanager.com/2007/09/17/white-tailed-deer-food-habits-what-they-eat/ Deer Hunting and Habitat Management Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:05:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Buck Manager http://www.buckmanager.com/2007/09/17/white-tailed-deer-food-habits-what-they-eat/comment-page-1/#comment-4145 Buck Manager Sun, 14 Aug 2011 15:25:44 +0000 http://www.buckmanager.com/?p=150#comment-4145 Craig, radishes can provide good supplemental forage for white-tailed deer in areas where they are suitable for growth. Forage daikon radishes are a variety of radish that can can grow a leafy top as high as 2 feet out of the ground and also can grow a shoot (similar to a carrot but larger) under the ground as deep as 24 inches. Forage daikon radishes are in the brassica family and have as good or better protein and mineral content as other members of the brassica family including turnips and rape. Craig, radishes can provide good supplemental forage for white-tailed deer in areas where they are suitable for growth. Forage daikon radishes are a variety of radish that can can grow a leafy top as high as 2 feet out of the ground and also can grow a shoot (similar to a carrot but larger) under the ground as deep as 24 inches.

Forage daikon radishes are in the brassica family and have as good or better protein and mineral content as other members of the brassica family including turnips and rape.

]]> By: Craig May http://www.buckmanager.com/2007/09/17/white-tailed-deer-food-habits-what-they-eat/comment-page-1/#comment-4128 Craig May Mon, 08 Aug 2011 02:50:38 +0000 http://www.buckmanager.com/?p=150#comment-4128 Are radishes effective in food plots? Are radishes effective in food plots?

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