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A deer's digestive system is a very finely tuned physiological process. Just the right combination of microorganisms, enzymes and PH enables a deer to digest on normal winter diet of woody vegetation. when offered a sudden supply of corn a deer's digestive system doesn't have time to adjust to high carbohydrate diet, the results can be acute acidosis followed by death within 72 hours they can appear normal and well fed. its just they cannot digest corn, within 6 hours corn alters the environment in the rumen. it turns the rumen acidic and destroys the microbes needs for normal digestion. not all deer die immediately from acidosis. its affects very with age and health of the deer individual. some may simply slow down, get clumsy, and become easy prey to speeding traffic and hungry coyotes. it takes a deer two to four weeks of feeding on a new food source to establish population of microbes necessary to digest the new food. it can happen in just a few days during a snowstorm and healthy individuals might survive in short term often succumb to complications weeks later.