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- From: "Patrick Stine" <patrickstine AT mindspring.com>
- To: <market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
- Subject: Re: Motivated deer
- Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 00:54:34 -0500
Hi All, my two cents and first
post.
Concerning the deer
populations, the anti hunting / gun groups have had a huge impact and
contributed to the decline in the number of people out actually harvesting the
deer compared in years past. Several landholders also refuse to let people hunt
on their land due to liability issues, it would be to easy for someone to sue
you becouse of their carelessness when walking with a loaded weapon.
On a lighter note..... if you
wish to harvest your deer several states now have programs that allow the meat
to be donated to various organizations (battered womens homes, homeless
shelters, etc) after you have filled your freezer. After a few years of hunting
pressure we have found the deer prefer to find safer grazing grounds. This won't
help those of you in the suburbs where hunting the deer would be limited if not
outlawed.
PS - really enjoy the info from
the list and hope it keeps up.
Patrick Stine
Lazy S Farm
North Salem, IN.
Subject: Re: Motivated deer...(Re: fence
posts)
From: Leigh Hauter <lh AT pressroom.com> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 09:50:09 -0500 X-Message-Number: 29 I agree with Allen. The commonly mentioned deer deterrents work more or less during the summer when there is plenty out there to eat. I lost over $5000 worth of vegetables after September 15th last year to deer. Early spring is also a time of concern. An interesting fact about deer. In the 1950's, around here, if someone reported a deer siting, the local newspaper would send out a photographer to get the rare picture. This last year, it was rare for me to see less than 4 deer as I drove in our mile long driveway in the evening. What is the reason for these changes? Is this just because the suburbs are rapidly moving in on our farm? Is it because there aren't any poor country people left who poach deer all year long for food (and therefore keep the population down)? Where there other deer predators in the 1950's? Is there something we are doing as farmers to make the world a more deer friendly place? Maybe it is that deer have adapted, just like the birds at my feeders, and figure eating in my fields is a relatively safe thing to do. |
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Re: Motivated deer,
Lee Lawton, 02/02/2000
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- Re: Motivated deer, Patrick Stine, 02/03/2000
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