Where the chicken bones go...oh deer

[ab_slack]

Due to raccoons who will rip thru my trash to get anything edible and just make a mess. I make both our lives easier by just tossing the organic stuff into the trees just outside the side door. I thought the raccoons did an awfully efficient job cause the bones, anything disappears and doesn't seem to pile up.

But now I wonder cause I found this critter no more than 8ft outside my door...eating some chicken wing bones I had tossed out the evening before. Aren't they supposed to be herbivores?

Or maybe it is related to the "killer bunny"

 

[FritzTKatt]

I miss the NJ woods already. The little bit of unmolested woodland left in the state is so beautiful. Yeah the Sierra Nevada mountains are beautiful, but there's nothing like home.

Looks like a tasty little critter right there...

EDIT: where are you in NJ?

 

[1994Ranger$$$pit]

A raccoon is an Omnivore, it eats meat and other plants. Actually, a raccoon will eat almost anything.

 

[ab_slack]

A raccoon is an Omnivore, it eats meat and other plants. Actually, a raccoon will eat almost anything.

Oh yes, no surprise about the Racoon eating them.

What surprised me was the deer eating them.

 

[Mark_88]

Maybe it wasn't actually eating the bones...they "snuffle" the snow to find green shoots...toss out some greens in a different location to see what they do...or carrots...I usually throw carrots out for the rabbits and they are almost always gone the next day...those baby carrots are treats for many animals

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

Deer are known to wipe out nests of baby birds they find in fields, like pheasant or turkey chicks.

They are not always as cuddly as most people think.

 

[ab_slack]

Maybe it wasn't actually eating the bones...they "snuffle" the snow to find green shoots...toss out some greens in a different location to see what they do...or carrots...I usually throw carrots out for the rabbits and they are almost always gone the next day...those baby carrots are treats for many animals

I throw all sorts of stuff out there. Some they eat, some they don't.

I actually saw it pick up the chicken wing, it was half hanging out of its mouth for a few seconds, they it swallowed it. Went back to nosing at the ground and there was another chicken wing bone a few feet away, made its way over to that one and did the same thing.

I was shocked cause I never expected that.

 

[Kowboy]

It's a well known fact here in the South, If chicken is fried correctly, The deer will come. The Game Wardens outlawed hunting around salt blocks so this is the direction we all took. LOL

 

[Mark_88]

Maybe THOSE deer like chicken bones and KFC...but I KNOW Bambi was a kind, gentle, vegetarian that only nibbled veggies...until she met Godzilla...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXCUBVS4kfQ

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

It's a well known fact here in the South, If chicken is fried correctly, The deer will come. The Game Wardens outlawed hunting around salt blocks so this is the direction we all took. LOL

Sounds like a win-win. Eat fried chicken and deer hunt at the same time.

 

[RonD]

It's the salt.

 

[ab_slack]

Salt, makes lots of sense

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

It's the salt.

It could be calcium too, but they are not strictly veggie eaters either.