Navasota River Bottom Bucks?

[steve morton]

Liver flukes

Our biologist that helps us on our place which is considered bedias creek Mgt area thinks the presence of liver flukes reduces the ability of our deer to live past 5.

Maybe a little Ivermectin on the feed pile would help with the Cov....I mean liver flukes.

[redfishted]

Maybe a little Ivermectin on the feed pile would help with the Cov....I mean liver flukes.

This year we started using ivermectin twice a year on the deer on our Leon county place

[Hoggwild]

Navasota Bottom south of CSTAT


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[Tshelly]

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[steve morton]

Ivermectin

This year we started using ivermectin twice a year on the deer on our Leon county place

Can you elaborate on the application process?

[EastTexasMan]

I remember a guy coming by the Land Bank office wanting to borrow money on a 20 acre tract that he purchased in Leon County out of one of the Darrell Hall Subdivisions. I asked him what he was doing with the tract and he said that he and four buddies were hunting it...might explain why you don't see many bucks getting to five years of age.
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Gary

Lol I just bought 29 acres out of one of the original Darrel hall subdivisions… ton of deer but all does and young bucks. Neighbors have feeders on every parcel. Definitely can fill the freezer with does though, think we saw 16 one time out there this summer

[Leon County Slayer]

Plenty of mature deer in the area now but like others said, I’m not seeing them on feeders since acorns dropped. Approx 3 weeks was last mature buck on corn amd we saw 3

[Peeping Tortuga]

Seeing some navasota fellas coming back a bit.

[redfishted]

Can you elaborate on the application process?

Once in the spring and once in the fall, we have the deer coming good feeders, we mix a couple hundred pounds of corn and 12 ounces of ivermectin per hundred pounds of corn in a cement mixer, mix until you can’t smell the ivermectin. Then we will turn off the feeders, spread the treated corn underneath the feeders, and leave the feeders off until the corn is cleaned up. We also will corn some roads and other areas in hopes of picking up some deer that might not be using the feeders.

[toledo]

Some good looking bucks but I can't really age any of them over 3 maybe 4.

The liver fluke issue is interesting.

And I firmly support the small property owner partaking in a state resource. I would like to see buck harvest further restricted, even if it means removing the option to kill spikes. With the abundance of does, and the expansion of doe seasons, there's no reason to still be killing spikes.

[Peeping Tortuga]

Once in the spring and once in the fall, we have the deer coming good feeders, we mix a couple hundred pounds of corn and 12 ounces of ivermectin per hundred pounds of corn in a cement mixer, mix until you can’t smell the ivermectin. Then we will turn off the feeders, spread the treated corn underneath the feeders, and leave the feeders off until the corn is cleaned up. We also will corn some roads and other areas in hopes of picking up some deer that might not be using the feeders.

This is great and good thinking. Seems some of the protein co’s could blend something in their feed. Surprised they haven’t already done this.

[Southbound 85]

They do. Lyssy & Eckel, among others offer a couple medicated options.

https://lefeeds.com/deer-feed/

[Tshelly]

Navasota River Bottom Bucks?

Some good looking bucks but I can't really age any of them over 3 maybe 4.

The liver fluke issue is interesting.

And I firmly support the small property owner partaking in a state resource. I would like to see buck harvest further restricted, even if it means removing the option to kill spikes. With the abundance of does, and the expansion of doe seasons, there's no reason to still be killing spikes.

Lots of real mature deer posted on this thread. You need to work on your aging for the area. Here are 2. 2nd deer is for sure 6.5, maybe 7.5 last year.





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[Peeping Tortuga]

They do. Lyssy & Eckel, among others offer a couple medicated options.
https://lefeeds.com/deer-feed/

Thank you

[toledo]

Lots of real mature deer posted on this thread. You need to work on your aging for the area. Here are 2. 2nd deer is for sure 6.5, maybe 7.5 last year.





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Interesting. He still looks thin through the neck. Here's some more that we have passed in recent years because I can't get them over 4yo. I guess my neighbors appreciate it.