Deer really like Rye here. We plant it in our pastures in the fall. They will often feed in the pastures instead of my food plots. I usually plant a 3 way cereal grain mix of wheat, rye and oats with AW peas, rape and kale thrown in. I will also plant Diakon radishes this year. The deer love them.
I have planted Triticale too and deer do like it but it seems no stores around here ever carry it.
Also for those of you who might go ask for Triticale, it's pronouned Trit uh kale EE, not Trit uh Kale. I found that out when I ordered some.....
I use seed wheat or feed wheat. On the rye, I thought deer didn't mess with it much??? Is there different types of rye??,
There is Rye which is a cereal grain and there is Ryegrass an annual grass. Regardless of what you might read, deer will eat both, at least as long as they are well fertilized, but they definitely prefer Rye over Ryegrass. They prefer wheat and oats to ryegrass as well. Ryegrass is a profuse seed maker and in one year will make enough seed to keep it going for several years.
You will see people post on here and some will tell you that deer don't eat GRASS and that's what Ryegrass is. What they fail to realize is that all cereal grains are grass too, we just use the seed they produce as food.
