In winter, the deer's digestive system changes to accommodate less nutritive food. So corn is not digestible in winter.
Feeding deer in winter is an artificial food source for the deer. Deer population grow and wane according to the availability of food, so an artificial food source can inflate your local deer population leading to future starvation when the artificial sources aren't available.
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While the misspelling of "carnivore" is most amusing (as the deer do love to eat corn), no; deer are not "cornivores". Nor are they "carnivores" (meat eaters), they are "herbivores", as they primarily subsist on grasses, (preferably tender young) tree leaves, other plant material, and even bark.
However, back to that first part- I have seen wild deer eating apples from right off of the tree, while inside of a fenced-off orchard area. I'm sure the apple orchard owner would be interested to know that he will need a taller fence, but if corn-eating deer could be called cornivores, then the deer that I saw that day would be applevores.
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Yes they do because i have fed a deer corn millions of times at my nana's house When I've thrown out corn cobs for the deer in my yard, they've eaten the corn and left the cob....