We've fed the deer for 17 years now,and have one Deer, named Lady, who is our closet friend deer. For well over 13 of the years here, we have been giving her apples, she loves apples....the first litter, she had only one fawn, but the next 10 years she had two fawns, every year and brings her fawns with her to our kitchen window, hoping I would see her and kids and give them apples...only one of those 12 plus years did she deliver a male that year she had two in her litter, a girl and a boy, that we named Rudolph and Clarice that was her last pair of babies, the past three years she's delivered only one baby....she's getting older.... The corn is for all her kids and their kid's kids, Lady is primarily an apple eater....
Anyway, the past three years, we have been spending our winters living in Florida and were really really really worried about our deer and whether they would survive without us feeding them....!!!
And the day we come home, we stop at the grocer to pick up apples to give to Lady if she survives the 3 to 4 months without us....we were not home for 30 minutes, before she came to the kitchen window for her apple treats...three years in a row..... So we no longer worry about feeding Lady and all her kids who hang in the same herd as her....they can survive without us and so can all her kids, thank God!
