Winters' negative impacts are seen greatly in deer herds year after year, supplemental feeding is something we can do to help whitetails through the hardest part of the year. Caution must be used when deciding what to feed deer, as a whitetails' anatomy changes as their natural diets do as well. In the spring, summer, and fall months, natural forages are luscious and green leaves, grasses, berries, and acorns to name few. When winter comes around, this changes to mostly woody browse such as twigs, juniper, moss, cedar, and sometimes balsam needles. The shift in intake causes the stomach to adapt its' acidic contents to break down these new naturally ingested foods. Once adapted to the new high fibre and low carbohydrate diet, foreign high carbohydrate and low fibre foods in high quantity such as corn or apples can be lethal. The condition is called acute acidosis, this happens when the stomach acids are unable to break down stomach contents and essentially allows the contents to ferment inside of the stomach, in some cases this can be directly fatal or cause the animal to become sick and vulnerable to predators or winter environment. Our line of Northern Blend products is winter feeding safe as all of our blends are well rounded, even with some carbohydrates, mixed with all of the other contents, are easily digestible throughout the year and offer the most ideal cocktail of nutrients to promote health, survival, and growth.