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A year in the life of a farm
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Been running at light speed lately but here is a quicky report. While there are lots of benefits to a balanced b/d ratio with good age structure there are also some challenges that are hard to get around. Every year we lose bucks to fighting. Here's the latest example. A 130" 7 or 8 yr old 8 pt got locked up with this 4 yr old. The 4 yr old killed the other buck then drug him around several days till coyotes ate the younger buck from the rear end forward . Nature is rarely as Walt Disney portrays .
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Dang that sucks. Rusty can I ask why y'all let this deer get to that age class. I've seen some of y'all's "management" deer if you will and they seem to be quite a bit bigger than him at the same age. Did he just slip through the cracks and never got shot or just keeping him around hoping for aesthetic reasons.
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Originally posted by ElfEyes View PostDang that sucks. Rusty can I ask why y'all let this deer get to that age class. I've seen some of y'all's "management" deer if you will and they seem to be quite a bit bigger than him at the same age. Did he just slip through the cracks and never got shot or just keeping him around hoping for aesthetic reasons.
I think this year, I am going to be more aggressive at shooting every lower quality buck I see even if its out the window of the truck. I'm on the farm almost every day and experience has taught that if you want to remove a certain buck, better do it the first time you see him.
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Here's a pic I bet no-one ever expected to see on this thread. Goats. Over 200 of them . Here they are being trained to electric fencing. I'm looking to buy several hundred more. I'm running the goats thru the destroyed woods moving them from paddock to paddock every 3 days to get control of the world class briar patches I have. Sure a little thicket can be good for deer. But what the hurricane left me with , while good for a year or two, have severely diminishing returns.
As I get control with the goats I am going to introduce cattle to the woods. Same thing. Intensively grazing for short durations then rotating them after a few days. Will strive to create a savannah outcome while at the same time improving the micro biology of the soil. This plus releasing native Forbes that have been dormant in the seed bank for a long long time.I'll be posting more on this as well as videoing the process. we will be keeping extensive data on the project.
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Originally posted by elgato View PostHere's a pic I bet no-one ever expected to see on this thread. Goats. Over 200 of them . Here they are being trained to electric fencing. I'm looking to buy several hundred more. I'm running the goats thru the destroyed woods moving them from paddock to paddock every 3 days to get control of the world class briar patches I have. Sure a little thicket can be good for deer. But what the hurricane left me with , while good for a year or two, have severely diminishing returns.
As I get control with the goats I am going to introduce cattle to the woods. Same thing. Intensively grazing for short durations then rotating them after a few days. Will strive to create a savannah outcome while at the same time improving the micro biology of the soil. This plus releasing native Forbes that have been dormant in the seed bank for a long long time.I'll be posting more on this as well as videoing the process. we will be keeping extensive data on the project.
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A year in the life of a farm
Originally posted by elgato View PostHere's a pic I bet no-one ever expected to see on this thread. Goats. Over 200 of them.
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