If you don't have other uses for sweet feed, find someone who does and "borrow a cup". Don't need 50 pounds to catch a groundhog.
.... I used to chow down on the sweetened oats (for horses) when I was a kid.
Thanks! That's great thought, but according to
@lazy gardner it's a good snack, and my wife's always after me about eating all of her healthy snacks, so win + win there.
Actually I have a "pet" yearling that was a fawn last fall, and would hang out with me in the yard while I was doing chores. So much so that a neighbor pulled up to visit one evening, and we were standing there for 10 minutes and he froze and said, "don't move there's a deer right over there", and I said: "oh I forgot about her, I just figured she ran off when you pulled up..." And so her and her family group ended up being regulars all winter... I'm pretty sure she would have come in the house with me if I'd have invited her, but here sister, momma, and aunt (or grandma?) were a bit more cautious.
Anyway, she and here sister came by mid morning just today, and then she came back this afternoon, and then this evening she was just on the edge of the woods (not 35 yds from me) for 30 minutes watching me water the plants and fill the bird bath... until I went in, and she went and "bird-bathed"
... so I was kind of thinking I might put just a bit of sweet feed out for her each morning... not too much, just a bit... since she's here eating all my wife's flowers anyway.
@techbsmith ...so sorry, now we're on deer... I'm sure we'll get back to raccoons, once we talk about every other mammal in north america... but be warned when we get to thirteen lined ground squirrels, I'm gonna' have a lot of questions.
... but cantaloupe and sweetfeed (molasses covered grain) will catch you a mess of coons too!
