Dairy farmers correct me if I'm wrong but ruminants (cows, deer, goats, etc.) can not process whole corn. It needs to be cracked open to allow their digestive system to process the starches inside the kernel.
Is that correct?
Yes mostly right but deer will nibble corn, hogs will go after cracked corn more-so than than whole kernal corn.
I dug a 2' deep hole filled it with corn, poured cooking oil from a fish-fry over it, bears and hogs went crazy for it. Bears destroyed feeders/lights/blinds anything man-made on my spot was destroyed. Looked like someone dug the place up w/a mini-excavator, actually did it in different holes >never did that again.
