Rice bran???......

[Big Muddy]

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I've been feeding the deer rice bran, along with corn, for several years, and they love the stuff.....when I first started using the rice bran, it was dirt cheap.....it's just a by-product of the rice milling process, and back then, cost was about $5 bucks for a 50 lb. bag .....now, since it's become so popular here in the south, the rice mills have started slapping pictures of big deer on their bags, and the price has sky-rocketed.....some, as high as $30 bucks a bag.
A young guy about an hour's drive south of me opened a small mill, and is selling it for $10.50 a bag, which is pretty reasonable for today's prices.....if you guys can find rice bran in your area, the deer love the stuff.....it smells sorta like fresh baked bread.

[Chicken Dinner]

Does it have any nutritional value if it’s just the bran? Or is it solely an attractant?

We had a horse when I lived in SE Asia as a kid and we fed him “paddy rice” instead of oats or hay which weren’t available. It was basically Unmilled rice. That horse loved him some rice. That, and beer.


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[Big Muddy]

No, this is not raw rice.....this is milled rice with the hull/husk removed and discarded.....only the bran coating is removed, and the result is a by-product of the milling process.....and, any cereal grain can be milled to render the bran by-product, i.e., wheat, corn, oats, barley, millet, rye, etc.....and yes, lots of horse owners feed rice bran to their horses down here.

In addition to being extremely attractive to deer, it's also quite nutritional with 12% protein-12% fiber-12% fat.


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[quercus alba]

I understand it's very popular with road hunters,

:poke