MSU Extension Talks ‘Deer Nutrition’ to Columbus Rotary Club

COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – Deer hunting season just wrapped up and on Tuesday MSU Extension Service presented some valuable information about nurturing deer to the Columbus Rotary Club.

MSU Extension Professor Bronson Strickland discussed the importance of nutrition vs genetics when feeding deer. He suggested that genetics do not play a major role in their size. Strickland also says supplemental food plots and thinning the forest can contribute to a deer’s overall health.

“If you increase diet quality for deer, after a generation or two that you’ll see really incredible responses in both their body weight and antler size but it takes time,” says Strickland.

Deer hunting season with a gun begins in late November and ends at the end of January.