How much will you bet? LOLThe snow doesn’t look too deep there, I’m betting there’s just some yummy grub under that boat.
BitcoinWhat'Ya Hidin under The Boat Lumpy?
Can’t touch it.I Think Lumpy Is Trying To Garner That PISSCUTTER Shed!
Some weird antlers on that one…Deer are doing good at my place but only because we are feeding them a couple hundred pounds of deer feed a day?
Thankfully so are most of my neighbors
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Hey Wapiti,Deer are doing good at my place but only because we are feeding them a couple hundred pounds of deer feed daily?
Thankfully so are most of my neighbors
Are you feeding the Mule Deer Foundation pellets specially made for them or something else? Do they all get some since it's in those buckets and not in a feed line? The ones at my house have been fighting each other for some Purina Deer blocks I have out and a Wild Bird seed and corn mix. They sure are mean to each other and the pecking order when food is around is pretty clear.Wanship
No, their eating “quagga” mussels…..or muscles around hear."They're" eating quaaga muscles......
They don’t die when they eat the apples, oranges, pumpkins, carrots etc from my garden. Where’d ya get that idea notrace.Sadly feeding them left over vegetable is a very bad idea. Will they eat them? Yes will they be able to turn that food into energy? NO
They will die with full stomachs.
I’ve never cut one open to check but they dang sure eat that stuff, year round. Yep, they eat the pine needles but they walk by the pines, until that’s all that’s left. .Look it up please in 83 84 we had the same thing happen and that was my science project. They can eat it but they can not turn it into fuel or energy.
Around browning arms in Morgan utah we dissected over 20 deer all had full stomachs full of just the stuff you are talking about .
Mule deer are not grazers like elk there browssers they eat pine needles sage brush dried grass bark etc.
Did you report the shed hunters that pushed them all the way to your backyard?We are feeding left over veggies, veggie trimmings, and grocery store produce waste mixed with corn, sunflower, crabapple, and rose hips. Right now we got a fawn on a pile of bell peppers, lettuce, and carrots. Lot of our neighbors are doing the same.
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They can eat it and turn it into energy, bit it could take several weeks for their stomachs to be able to process it correctly. If they haven't been eating it for months, and are in a weakened state their stomachs can't handle the sudden change in diet. Same goes for alfalfa hay, the mountain deer that move down haven't been eating it all summer like the valley deer. I'm sure the deer in the valleys do better with that stuff then the mountain deer do.I’ve never cut one open to check but they dang sure eat that stuff, year round. Yep, they eat the pine needles but they walk by the pines, until that’s all that’s left. .
I have heard that for years too JakeH. For 47 years, I’ve lived three miles from the base of Monroe/Cove Mountain, there is 400 acres of alfalfa between my house and the base of the mountain. There is 3 acres of alfalfa 25 feet from my patio door. The mule deer follow the green back up the mountain in April. You can not find a deer in these hay fields again until the first week in October. Come early October they being pouring into those hay fields and the hay field next to my house. Up to 200 to 300 of them. From 20 to 40 in the hay field next to my house. So one day they’re eating straight browse, everyday, for nearly 7 months. The day they leave the mountain they eat nothing but alfalfa, from dark until dawn, every night until the fields are snow covered, generally, after the end of December. They eat straight alfalfa, for 2.5 to 3 months, and they switch from browse to hay, in a single day. If what the DWR biologists are correct, why are these deer not dropping dead in the fields?They can eat it and turn it into energy, bit it could take several weeks for their stomachs to be able to process it correctly. If they haven't been eating it for months, and are in a weakened state their stomachs can't handle the sudden change in diet. Same goes for alfalfa hay, the mountain deer that move down haven't been eating it all summer like the valley deer. I'm sure the deer in the valleys do better with that stuff then the mountain deer do.
That's why they recommend the pellets the dwr feed them, it's more suitable for them to digest.
Eh- plenty of livestock kept fat and happy...Should have starving wolves pretty soon.
Ya I Do Remember That!I have heard that for years too JakeH. For 47 years, I’ve lived three miles from the base of Monroe/Cove Mountain, there is 400 acres of alfalfa between my house and the base of the mountain. There is 3 acres of alfalfa 25 feet from my patio door. The mule deer follow the green back up the mountain in April. You can not find a deer in these hay fields again until the first week in October. Come early October they being pouring into those hay fields and the hay field next to my house. Up to 200 to 300 of them. From 20 to 40 in the hay field next to my house. So one day they’re eating straight browse, everyday, for nearly 7 months. The day they leave the mountain they eat nothing but alfalfa, from dark until dawn, every night until the fields are snow covered, generally, after the end of December. They eat straight alfalfa, for 2.5 to 3 months, and they switch from browse to hay, in a single day. If what the DWR biologists are correct, why are these deer not dropping dead in the fields?
Remember when corn used to kill trout in Utah……..? Now it doesn’t.
There’s something going on here………. too. I’m not cutting the stomachs of dead/starving mule deer open but my empirical observations tells me this reason for not feeding mule has some flaws in it. I know they don’t want people feeding wildlife for fear of large congregations of animals may spread disease, and for other reasons. Is this another corn kills trout deal that has become science by virtue of the “ends justify the means?”, I wonder.
They can eat it and turn it into energy, bit it could take several weeks for their stomachs to be able to process it correctly. If they haven't been eating it for months, and are in a weakened state their stomachs can't handle the sudden change in diet. Same goes for alfalfa hay, the mountain deer that move down haven't been eating it all summer like the valley deer. I'm sure the deer in the valleys do better with that stuff then the mountain deer do.
That's why they recommend the pellets the dwr feed them, it's more suitable for them to digest.
That's quite the conspiracy theory lumpy, but I am not equipped to debate it. I'm sure there are other factors involved, maybe the quality of the forage at the time of the transfer helps the transition, or maybe the fact they move in as early as you say would allow the deer you are talking about to be fed hay this time of year, but I don't have all the answers. That's just what they say happens, I have no reason to doubt them. ?I have heard that for years too JakeH. For 47 years, I’ve lived three miles from the base of Monroe/Cove Mountain, there is 400 acres of alfalfa between my house and the base of the mountain. There is 3 acres of alfalfa 25 feet from my patio door. The mule deer follow the green back up the mountain in April. You can not find a deer in these hay fields again until the first week in October. Come early October they being pouring into those hay fields and the hay field next to my house. Up to 200 to 300 of them. From 20 to 40 in the hay field next to my house. So one day they’re eating straight browse, everyday, for nearly 7 months. The day they leave the mountain they eat nothing but alfalfa, from dark until dawn, every night until the fields are snow covered, generally, after the end of December. They eat straight alfalfa, for 2.5 to 3 months, and they switch from browse to hay, in a single day. If what the DWR biologists are correct, why are these deer not dropping dead in the fields?
Remember when corn used to kill trout in Utah……..? Now it doesn’t.
There’s something going on here………. too. I’m not cutting the stomachs of dead/starving mule deer open but my empirical observations tells me this reason for not feeding mule has some flaws in it. I know they don’t want people feeding wildlife for fear of large congregations of animals may spread disease, and for other reasons. Is this another corn kills trout deal that has become science by virtue of the “ends justify the means?”, I wonder.
I understand Jake. After these these many years, I do believe this for certain, they have told the truth, at times, other times they haven’t. A dead, emancipated deer, with a belly full of dry alfalfa is no guarantee it was killed by the hay. Like I said, there’s more than meets the eye going on here. imo….. at this point.That's quite the conspiracy theory lumpy, but I am not equipped to debate it. I'm sure there are other factors involved, maybe the quality of the forage at the time of the transfer helps the transition, or maybe the fact they move in as early as you say would allow the deer you are talking about to be fed hay this time of year, but I don't have all the answers. That's just what they say happens, I have no reason to doubt them. ?
That’s the best malapropism I’ve seen here in a while. Well done my friend.A dead, emancipated deer, with a belly full of dry alfalfa is no guarantee it was killed by the hay.
The snow might not be worse if the temperature go's up.The snow over the next few days will make things much worse. I hope it warms up fast.
Thank you blue………. Will this one work better……emaciated? ?That’s the best malapropism I’ve seen here in a while. Well done my friend.
You saying that there is no big fish in Strawberry too? First the deer are tiny or gone and now the fish are scrawny and thin? Them good ole days must have super good to you hoss.Ya I Do Remember That!
Everybody That Went To Strawberry Took 2 Cases Of Corn!
The Bows Were Big & Healthy back then!
Way Bigger & Healthier Than They Are Now!
LIL BEAV Ain't Old Enough To Argue With Me On This!
But I'm Sure He'll CHIME In With:But The Biologists Told Me This............!
You saying that there is no big fish in Strawberry too? First the deer are tiny or gone and now the fish are scrawny and thin? Them good ole days must have super good to you hoss.