CORN FEEDERS FOR DEER: Corn feeders bring deer into the 
open to help hunters manage their populations. We 
explain on Passport to Texas

This is Passport to Texas

Texas deer hunters use corn feeders to draw animals into 
the open to get a clear shot. That's because deer are alert 
and clever creatures that can elude even the best hunters.

TPW wildlife biologist, Alan Cain, says in order to 
properly manage the estimated million white-tailed deer 
roaming our state, hunters have to be able to see them.

24 -- We live in a state where private lands dominate most of the 
hunting areas out there. So, it's not like you have a national 
forest out west or in some of these big places in the east, where 
a hunter can get out there and just walk for miles. So, he's 
relegated to whatever size property he's hunting on. So, to 
make those deer visible, where he has an opportunity to harvest 
one, he has to do something to attract them out there to that 
area.

Deer are harder to see in some areas of than others.

18 -- Any hunter that's spent time -- especially in south Texas -- 
it's difficult. The brush is so thick; the only place you really 
have to see sometimes is down the sederos or roads that are 
running through the brush country. So that's where feeders or 
feed routes [where they feed out of a truck or corn the roads] 
that keeps those deer visible out there.

Strategically placed feeders allow hunters to be more 
effective when managing deer populations.

That's our show ... with support from the SFWR 
program ... funded by your purchase of fishing and 
hunting equipment and motorboat fuel. 

For Texas Parks and Wildlife ... I'm Cecilia Nasti. 





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