Man I don't even want to know your yearly bill for food plots and protein. Nice work.
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Growing Predator Control
Today is May 21 and fawning season is upon us. I know a lot of folks are concerned that predators negatively impact their fawning success and take aggressive steps to eliminate as many coyotes, and bobcats as possible. I have no problem with that I just choose a different approach to fawn survival . My strategy is to grow my predator control.
Here on the farm I have numerous road right of ways ranging about 2-3 chains wide. There are numerous clover fields scattered around as well as fields of NWSG. 2 years ago I thinned an 80 acre predominantly pine forest. Last year I thinned about 300 acres of hardwood.All of the timber has been managed within the last 10 yrs.
The outcome of all this is outstanding fawning cover. The ROW's and other openings are knee to chest deep in grasses. The clover fields have standing wheat and rye grass [ which is impossible for me to get rid of ] and misc. weeds again knee to chest high with great clover underneath. The timber is a jungle. The net effect is that there are places all over the farm to hide fawns. Heck a fairly large herd of giraffes could successfully fawn here. The result is a consistently high fawn survival rate.
I also check fawn survival about green up. Same thing, while there is always some over winter mortality survival rates are high enough to satisfy. So rather than trying to fight nature I prefer to take a lazy mans approach and let nature do all the work. Also lets me enjoy one of my farm goals and that is magnificent abundance.
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