Cold took a toll...

[growalot]

On the turnip plots...most bulbs gone but the ones remaining are mush under the skins...lack of snow just before the hard freeze got them...went to pick a few for Mr. B difficult finding ones that made it...so...unless the eat the mush...late season food was really depleted...it's a first...

[SplitG2]

Same here with my brassica. Thank god for my standing corn!

[Pygmy]

 

On the turnip plots...most bulbs gone but the ones remaining are mush under the skins...lack of snow just before the hard freeze got them...went to pick a few for Mr. B difficult finding ones that made it...so...unless the eat the mush...late season food was really depleted...it's a first...

I'll bet they'll eat the mush, Growie..

More than once I have seen them happily eating mushy, brown, half rotten frozen apples like they were candy.

 

I'll have to take a walk and check out my turnip/radish plot and see what's going on up there.

[Pygmy]

I went up on the hill yesterday and checked my 2 acre brassica plot..

The snow is all gone..The entire plot looks like a barnyard, riddled with deer tracks and droppings..

The rape is long gone...After the rape, they went after the turnips. Although they have eaten a lot of them, there are still enough there to present a sigificant food source.

Last but not least, they have started eating the radishes in earnest.There are chunks of turnips and radishes all over but still plenty of untouched roots.

I checked my winter oats/clover also. The oats are all brown and dead, but there is still green clover in the patches where the ground is bare.. They don't to be eating the clover much at this point, preferring to walk over it and get to the turnips and radishes.

Add that to the fact that there was a good acorn crop in the adjacent woods, I'd say that SO FAR, the deer on the property have had pretty good vittles.

[landtracdeerhunter]

Some of the radish survived here, and the deer are enjoying the carbs. Left a few acres of uncut clover, grass that got to late for hay. Their in that quite heavy eating the clover and some other plant under the grasses. Manure is a nice golden black, but urine was quite golden in color, before the snow melted. IDK the reason. Been eating willow and other brush ends. The trees that tipped out, as a result of the icing event in December, are ate back and have become a community meeting place.

[t_barb]

my brassica is gone and my 3 acres of corn is picked completey clean as well...  never expected it all to be gone this early