Hi guys
Do any of you do much supplemental feeding during the winter? I would be interested to see if/how you help big game animals through the winter months.

Dad feeds the deer, hares, bunnies, and birds all the same feed. It's a mixture of cracked corn, oats, barley, and misc bird seed all mixed together.

The corn oats and barley is bought together and it is sweetened with molasses and cracked or smashed. Then wild bird seed is mixed in.

Things like Black Capped Chickadees really like the suet seed cake you can get at your local wildbird or farm store. Though Magpies, Ravens and crows will also tear it apart.

Yes,

We feed them winter wheat and maize cover crops!!

We do, don't we just!
I wondered why those pheasant and partridges had developed cloven hooves. Sometimes there's so much slot around the feeders that you can't see any gamebird tracks.
By the time the Bullocks have gone through the maize cover and the Deer knocked over the feeders, there can't be that much grain left for the birds.
Next year, lets put a feeder within range of every high seat and max out the investment in grain!

Judging by the fat around the kidneys of both Fallow and Sika I have shot over the past few years, low ground deer need no supplementary feeding.

If we had an extended period of snow or hard frost, it might be different, particularly given the numbers of deer around.

Can anyone remember the last time a temporary shooting ban was implemented because of hard weather? The late 80's?