Elk ?

[Don McDowell]

We got about 30 deer trying to raid the haystack everynight. (of course the game and fish says they'll die eating alfalfa...) but not hide nor hair of the elk.

[Kurt]

Your kidding ???? alfalfa is about the only hay grown around here and deer are feeding on it in the evenings around here Don.
Maybe G&F mean they get shot and end up in the freezers----

[Don McDowell]

No they claim deer will die from starvation with a belly full of alfalfa... They also say deer and antelope never eat anything but browse.... Apparently afalfa, wheat, oats,corn and beans are members of the browse family???

[Kurt]

Didn't know that.
Wonder what they are finding out in the hay fields they like. I know they sure like my Pin Oak

[Don McDowell]

G&F been trying to pull that one over for as long as I can remember.. nobody that's seen the damaged crops ever swallowed that for even a second.

[Kurt]

Yeh thats like there are no wolfs in Illinois or big cats that people are reporting.

[Caprock]

Yep, I remember now from an old plant taxonomy course. Alfalfa belongs to the Family Browsidaceae!