Feeding of the deer

[gspren]

Our snow is just about gone, by the weekend it will be hard to find any that wasn't piled up with a plow. When the snow melted off by our lower field I spotted a shed off an 8 point in a mowed area near a winter wheat field, after I picked it up I looked around and saw the other side in some weeds. That's the first set I've found in years.

[Walnut Beast]

The deer are probably looking forward to spring 

[Walnut Beast]

If you get a chance get a couple pics of the sheds you found 👍

[SwampDonkey]

I wont see my first deer here until May when they migrate back up from the Charleston cedar swamps. There are a few out by the river, but they are staying in a deep gully with lots of cedar in it. I have zero deer tracks up here in the winter after mid December. Might be a couple moose around on the woodlot, but have not gone back in too deep to find them. Wouldn't be surprised.

[braucher]

About three weeks ago I hinge cut about a quarter acre soft maple.
It ranged in size from two to six inch . Went back about a week later 
and was amazed how they ate .

[Walnut Beast]

Thought about putting some corn 🌽 in the deer feeders that have been empty for a long time. Elevator cash price 7.54 bushel. They might just have to settle for the food plots trying to come up

[beenthere]

Small food plot of the buck forage oats thanks to Walnut Beast, they seem to agree with this buck palete.


https://rumble.com/v1q9ffc-buck-eating-forage-oats.html

Seems to be enjoying it, while being alert to any does in the area. Glad to see a few nice bucks showing up in the daytime now. 

[Walnut Beast]

Awesome little honey hole where you have them planted. Glad your getting some good action. Great video! When snow has it all covered up later on down the road they will be digging and pawing to get at it to eat

[Walnut Beast]

With being in a drought and lucky to have a little rain awhile back the Buck Forage Oats are coming along good due to the circumstances. Been through several freezes and down to 16 and 18 a few times they are doing good . The rain we got was about a week ago. Would have been nice if it would have been after it was planted

 

  

[Hilltop366]

It's rare not to see a deer in my yard year round (I don't feed them), the most I have seen at one time is up to 18 now.

My BIL will set up to shoot a deer in the woods behind my house so he bought 14 50-60 pound bags of cull carrots for bait for the season and dropped them off in my yard to put out 5 days later. Apparently the deer could not wait, there was only about 50 pounds left yesterday when he came back.



 





This guy was around chasing some does before the carrots arrived.

 

[K-Guy]

I don't put out feed. I have about an acre of "lawn" that is Timothy Hay and they like it as well as in another area closer to the house that has something I haven't identified that they like. Like many living in the country in Maine my lawn is field grass.

[KEC]

In New York it is generally illegal to feed deer or bears. You can legally give them cut browse. I live near suburban areas where people put brush and wood out by the road for the town, village, city DPW to take away. When cold weather comes, (after deer season) I'm on the lookout for fresh-cut White Cedar boughs. I stuff some in the pickup and bring them home and hang them just off the ground from the lower branches of trees in the back yard. When the temps get down in the teens and it is snowy the deer love it. My house is well away from the road; I'm hard-pressed to see any harm in it. When the  deer have eaten the foilage, the branches go on my brush piles where a lot of birds take refuge from the cold and wind. I share my piece of the rock with the birds and critters.

[gspren]

Our back yard is about a acre and bordered on one side by woods and the back blends into a wooded pasture, don't see deer every week but occasionally. There is a spot near the center of the yard where I burnt a huge pile of tree tops and root balls from clearing for my building and the grass I planted there with a lot of ashes mixed in is still much darker than the grass I planted around the building using the seed from the same bag. The deer seem to like that dark grass and no chemicals or fertilizers were used, just lots of ashes.

[SwampDonkey]

Some perspective on New Brunswick deer populations.

https://nbdatapoints.ca/natural-resources/forestry/the-missing-deer

[Peter Drouin]

Hi cfarm.  How many head you feeding now? and how many bags of grain a week you go through?
 I hope you two are all well.

[thecfarm]

No more than 20. And that is a high number. More like a steady 15. Not much snow around here, so can find food.
I try to keep it to about a 50#bag a week. Not a rich man here.
I put out about 3 gallons a night. If 2 comes they make out good, if 20 comes they better eat fast. 
Brenda had an operation on her thumb. Might take 6 months to heal.
Then before that she broke a couple ribs. So I have been the dish washer, keep the house clean and cook and all the other duties that is in the house. The outside stuff has really taken a back seat.
She is really one handed. No sweeping the floor the Dr said. No nothing!!!
If you come visit, the house could use a cleaning. 
I've found 2 sheds so far. Just found one the other night.

[Peter Drouin]

Sorry to hear about Brenda, hope she gets well soon.
The outside work will wait for you, don't worry.
I had no snow to speak of, last night got 4"
They have been eating some of the corn I put out. #40 lb last 10 days'
But, I only have 4 or 5 here, all does. 

[SwampDonkey]

Ray's camera is broke and the deer run away from cameras.

The new lawn here is all timothy and clover, haven't seen a deer on it. But there has been in the old grassy area where the old barn sat in years past. That grows neck high down there, I bush hog it though.

[Magicman]

Wow Ray, I had those duties after PatD broke her arm, but not nearly to the extent nor length of time that you have and will have.  Stay strong my friend.

PatD and I wish Brenda the best with her recovery.