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Permalink Reply by Coil Conaway (Team HT) on -
Limting your self on the type pf deer that are harvvested is not all ways the best to manage a herd/ You might need to talk to your nedighbors and make sure theat that they are not killing big deer just to kill.
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Permalink Reply by Little Mountain Guide Service on -
On our ranch we plant food plots yearly atleast two per 100 acres some people dont relize that deer need their minerals and protien during the spring and summer so we feed protein from end of deer season till 1st of august and keep mineral blocks out we have been on this plan for last five years client shot a 140 class 20 1/2 inch wide this wkend our bucks have doubled in width since starting this in east tx
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy Gilbert on -
Management don't work if your neighbors are idiots and kill anything that moves or just
Shoot bucks that are immature and never reach full potential we are goin to start
Protein in summer and cottonseed. And have good winter plots and just try to keep
The deer in are place till there mature
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Permalink Reply by Jason Countryman on -
ill have to agree with jimmy gilbert on this if you want big healthy deer the only way to really acheive this in my opinion is you have to have neighbors that want the same thing as you do. Food plots ,minerals etc help them grow but they dont grow if your neighbor whacks the first thing that walks by and has a couple horns yeah its hard some times and tags dont make very good stew but if you want good deer youll have to bite your lip and let them walk. Where I live Im surrounded by state ground so its almost a lose lose battle Ive let deer walk and just hope they stay on the land I hunt or close and I have seen those deer the following year bigger and more mass but when the rut hits and the orange army is out you just have to hope they will make it or catch em and tie them up.
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Permalink Reply by Ray Long on -
Im out on public land in CO so its a little different management than private property, but I say letting inmature animals live and only taking mature animals is good for both the meat hunters, the trophy hunters and the species, also taking of female animals to maximize the male to female ratio for the area is important. Then controling preditors and providing safe zones for animals to recuperate after the long hard winter to have their young is benifical. The biggest part of game management is educating of fellow hunters to practice sound management this is specifically hard because the local DOW hasnt set a specific direction for the management of the herds here in CO. I would like them to post their goals for 3-5-10 years so maybe us as hunters can help them reach their goal. One thing for sure about the CDOW is the money seems to be the most important thing.
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Permalink Reply by Tracy Kuykendall on -
This is probably to lengthy for one sitting but I'll help where I can . First off I'm not a biologist or range specialist, but I have done quite a bit of research and talked to these people. First off when most people think of deer or wildlife management, they immediatly think of removing does and culling inferior bucks. What I've learned is that nature will take care of a lot of that for you. Plus all of that can get extremely labor and time intensive.If you want a good basic starting point get with the ag extension office in the county where you want to hunt or where your lease is. One thing I'm telling everyone "that I can get to listen" in my area is to do this and would like to get a hunting coop's up and running. You will be amazed at the improvement in a deer herd just by meeting the basic needs of deer. Provide the food and cover let them grow to maturity and then improve on that.
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Permalink Reply by Amy Countryman ( TEAM HT ) on -
We do attempt to keep our deer supplied with corn, beans, oats, salt, and mineral blocks and just about anything Else we come across. One of our issues is how People forget that fences divide property. They are not there for looks. You can't manage anything. If people are taking them illeagally or without permission.
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Permalink Reply by james gilbert on
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wild hogs are the number one destroyer of habbitat , these are very distructive animals , they also carry many many type of disese ,currenttly estimated pop is 1.5 millon in texas alone. they reach breeding age at 6 months with gestation of 115 day and are capable of producing 2 litters a yaer so do the math its scarry. these hog compete directly with livestock as well as game and non game animals.this in my opinon is why or quail and turky populations are thretend , they love to eat the eggs and trust me they have a very keen nose and have no paoblem finding the nest . some of the diseases are a threat to other wildlife and some to humans , ther are carriers of pesudorabies, swine brucellosis, bubonic plague, tularemia , cholera , foot and mouth disease serious threat to deer and live stock, antrax, lepto, parvo, prrs ,and many others .swine brucellosisis a infectious bacterial reproductive disease that is transmittable to humans , know as undlant fever and causes flu like systoms . maybe this will help hunters understand the threat , i kill all i see and just leave them lay to rot , and any hunter that sees one on my ranch and i find out he did not kill it or attemt to kill it will not come back , in number we can help control these pest because that is really what they are and need to be eradicated ..............thanks hope this will help people understand the problem there aminals pose to us and our wildlife and livestock
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Permalink Reply by Tracy Kuykendall on
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James do I detect a fair amount of animosity from you toward hogs. ...he he! I haven't been in your neck of the woods since about 1975 worked a couple of summers for Fell's Ariel service. What other methods do you use to thin the hogs. In my neck of the woods we don't have any to speak of, but we do some control work a couple of counties to the southeast. On those properties they shoot on sight also and we maintain traps and run dogs in and the dogs keep them out for a couple of weeks at a time seems like. I'm just fishing around for more ideas for some of these guys, there's someone new calling us all the time looking for help, so I keep a catalog of methods for acreage, time and money willing to be invested,etc.
james gilbert said:wild hogs are the number one destroyer of habbitat , these are very distructive animals , they also carry many many type of disese ,currenttly estimated pop is 1.5 millon in texas alone. they reach breeding age at 6 months with gestation of 115 day and are capable of producing 2 litters a yaer so do the math its scarry. these hog compete directly with livestock as well as game and non game animals.this in my opinon is why or quail and turky populations are thretend , they love to eat the eggs and trust me they have a very keen nose and have no paoblem finding the nest . some of the diseases are a threat to other wildlife and some to humans , ther are carriers of pesudorabies, swine brucellosis, bubonic plague, tularemia , cholera , foot and mouth disease serious threat to deer and live stock, antrax, lepto, parvo, prrs ,and many others .swine brucellosisis a infectious bacterial reproductive disease that is transmittable to humans , know as undlant fever and causes flu like systoms . maybe this will help hunters understand the threat , i kill all i see and just leave them lay to rot , and any hunter that sees one on my ranch and i find out he did not kill it or attemt to kill it will not come back , in number we can help control these pest because that is really what they are and need to be eradicated ..............thanks hope this will help people understand the problem there aminals pose to us and our wildlife and livestock
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Permalink Reply by Jimmy Gilbert on
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Yep its estimated that every feral hog will do $1,500.00 worth of damage in its life time....
and each sow has the potential for as many as 16 piglets with 8 being the average.
$12,000.00 per litter damage and 2 litters a year is easily possible....
Why there is not a federal bounty is beyond me????
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Permalink Reply by Allen Wayne Duennenberg on
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A feral hog probably does more than that. I broke the tongue on my hay cutter this year on a hog wallow in my field of hay grazer. The time it took me to fix and repair cam out to more than 1500 bucks. But your right, they do a lot of damage but they are also very tasty. There are so many people in this country without food there should be a way everyone could get in on some BBQ pig.
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