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Wrightdigger said:
RTR,

I would prefer that over an old Nova. He's been talking for so many years though. I am wondering if the "right anything" will ever come along.
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Dunno ,but the old trucks are the new crave lately
 

RTR said:
Dunno ,but the old trucks are the new crave lately
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I just showed him the pic and told him I wanted one. He smiled and said it was cool. You know, though, a new tournament boat comes before any classic vehicle. :BangHead:
 

ef8aade16e170fe946a4c60e6c0c529f.jpg Everyone have a nice Sunday.
 

WD,

We had lots of fruit and nut trees on our ranches, every year we would propagate and plant new trees. The bees loved it, they where mostly attracted to the cherry, crab apples, peaches and lavender.

You have forty acres, do you plant a new tree each year, does not take much to grow one. Do you have any bee hives. 40 acres could take a few hives, or you could just have one single hive.

We always had triple raised bed barriers around our hives full of only lavender. Makes them very easy to deal with, very low maintenance and pest do not get to them.

we never used the honey, fruit or nuts for our selves, well not in the amount that we grew. Honey was for the cattle, fruit and nut orchards where wild orchards we planted and we would just allow the fruit and nuts to fall and be eat by what ever ate it.

As for deer, we had more of them than you could shake and damn stick at, damn bushcats and tons of hog. Every 3 years my father would purchase a bunch of elk and release them on the Junction ranch. He said that he had not seen Elk in that area since the 30s. We never shot elk on that ranch, I am sure others around the area certainly did, just not on our ranch. We did not have game fences either at that ranch, so they could go where ever they wanted.

Had one neighbour to the east of us, he used to release pronghorn on his ranch, he owned another ranch up north and would have around 100 brought down back then. First time I saw one of those I did not know what the heck it was. Told one of our workers there about it and he told me.

Nothing wrong with not letting folks hunt on your land WD, seriously 40 acres is about enough land to take care of you and yours but also give back. You would really notice giving back, something as simple as one hive on your property and even your neighbours would notice. Even a few bat houses do wonders, just little ones made for 100 bats each set up in the right places, no more than 1 per ten acres.
 

Wrightdigger said:
I washed it off to make sure nothing was in the dirt. It is small. I might try to crush it. Curiosity is going to get the best of me on this one. :icon_scratch:

The other note: My cousin wants to hunt here. He's been begging me for years. He told me that we need to figure out what all we have here, because we can't have so many bucks and we can't have so many doe. I don't know. I am not a hunter. So we got the cameras up to check it out. I know we have at least 3 bucks, 2 doe (probably more, hard to tell them apart) and a little one. Somebody confirmed in My Daily Snapshots that we do need to control the population. So, I guess I should let the butthead kill my deer. As for me, I tried it, I won't eat it again.

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"Balance" of sex ratio in a deer herd is always going to spark debate.
What an unmolested (by humans ,with weapons including automobiles) herd becomes depends on depredation by other predators , winter severity , and habitat capacity.

Balance of a herd ,nature can deal with.
The bigger concern should be in keeping deer below habitat capacity ,or supplementing tonnage of browse. If you find everything browsed down to pencil sized diameter ,and deer are standing on their hind legs to browse (leaving a high browse line) and deer are eating less desireable things of poor nutrition value ....Then you have a problem.

Your doe are likely homebodies. A mile or two in range.
Your bucks can go fifteen miles if need be during the rut to seek doe.
They hang out in bachelor groups in summer ,usually away from doe.
While doe run off last years fawns and defends new spring time site to drop her new fawns. They (the females and young bucks (if they behave and are not amorous) in the late summer.

Depending on habitat capacity you may or may not have too many deer. Your pics show good weights on them. The one buck I looked over in your pic. did not suffer from much lack of protein or mineral so you look alright from a very small opinion.

We have C.W.D. now in our herd. Quite a game changer , and great debate as to how to manage deer numbers going forward.

I consider the surrounding area here for what deer have for habitat and browse.
They like the security of my land for dodging hunting pressure .
They also have plenty of browse till winter.
Were I to heed some folks and reduce their numbers severely to prevent deer from dispersing and potential C.W.D. spread....I would be affecting about 14 other hunters/landowners directly.
Also would be reducing the deer per square mile more severely than other properties could.

If some one wanted to hunt my land , (and there would be exceptions of certain guests ) , they would be doing habitat improvement ,and general labor year round in exchange for the privilage.

I can control deer numbers on it myself. How to manage those numbers goes beyond what is seen on my property , and concerns the locale's herd as a whole.
If I were going to solicit help ,it would again be disabled hunters and seniors. Friends and family members ? Would depend.....
As old Dad put it ,friendship can turn to hen $@#! .
I owe a couple hunts to others. No problem getting hunters , so there is the luxury of saying No to requests.

Meanwhile the property owner on one side tells me to take good care of her fawns....She does not mean kill them.
 

releventchair said:
"Balance" of sex ratio in a deer herd is always going to spark debate.
What an unmolested (by humans ,with weapons including automobiles) herd becomes depends on depredation by other predators , winter severity , and habitat capacity.

Balance of a herd ,nature can deal with.
The bigger concern should be in keeping deer below habitat capacity ,or supplementing tonnage of browse. If you find everything browsed down to pencil sized diameter ,and deer are standing on their hind legs to browse (leaving a high browse line) and deer are eating less desireable things of poor nutrition value ....Then you have a problem.

Your doe are likely homebodies. A mile or two in range.
Your bucks can go fifteen miles if need be during the rut to seek doe.
They hang out in bachelor groups in summer ,usually away from doe.
While doe run off last years fawns and defends new spring time site to drop her new fawns. They (the females and young bucks (if they behave and are not amorous) in the late summer.

Depending on habitat capacity you may or may not have too many deer. Your pics show good weights on them. The one buck I looked over in your pic. did not suffer from much lack of protein or mineral so you look alright from a very small opinion.

We have C.W.D. now in our herd. Quite a game changer , and great debate as to how to manage deer numbers going forward.

I consider the surrounding area here for what deer have for habitat and browse.
They like the security of my land for dodging hunting pressure .
They also have plenty of browse till winter.
Were I to heed some folks and reduce their numbers severely to prevent deer from dispersing and potential C.W.D. spread....I would be affecting about 14 other hunters/landowners directly.
Also would be reducing the deer per square mile more severely than other properties could.

If some one wanted to hunt my land , (and there would be exceptions of certain guests ) , they would be doing habitat improvement ,and general labor year round in exchange for the privilage.

I can control deer numbers on it myself. How to manage those numbers goes beyond what is seen on my property , and concerns the locale's herd as a whole.
If I were going to solicit help ,it would again be disabled hunters and seniors. Friends and family members ? Would depend.....
As old Dad put it ,friendship can turn to hen $@#! .
I owe a couple hunts to others. No problem getting hunters , so there is the luxury of saying No to requests.

Meanwhile the property owner on one side tells me to take good care of her fawns....She does not mean kill them.
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Excellent geo-specific content explanation; more than enough for any land owner to have a grasp as to where to start looking and conform accordingly regardless of direction.
 

Oddjob said:
Excellent geo-specific content explanation; more than enough for any land owner to have a grasp as to where to start looking and conform accordingly regardless of direction.
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And I should have noted W.D.'s evidence of a yearling(last years fawn) being near it's mother (?) when she dropped a new fawn.
While some doe will drive last years young completely out of the area , I have studied a couple that establish a 50-70 yard no go zone , and tolerate last years young being near during fawning time , to a point.

Generally though , given room the doe will discourage other deer from being around during early fawning. Bucks seem to prefer different habitat that time of year anyways (in general and never say never). Avoiding a cranky doe then is seldom an issue. A buck is not aggresive then and is less in amperage in the whole social hierarchy for a while.

There is a dominance/pecking order among matriarchal groups than usually means less dominant doe end up in less desirable places to drop their own fawns when claims get established.
In a case where we had too many (?) coyotes ,with average birthing times having the most new fawns on the ground at one time ; the most experienced doe was the one getting fawns through to the point they could avoid predation better...
Doe fawns come into estrous a month or so after older doe. That and doe that did not take in breeding earlier. They face risks from predators due to less numbers of new borns at times. But diverse nature allows that ,and it has a benefit in Northern regions due to occasional late spring. Probably other areas too ,just to not have all eggs in one basket...
 

The outhouse of the home next to Paul Revere's home is being excavated. Paul's cousin owned the house at one time and he, along with his twelve children, no doubt visited there and used the privy.
I suppose if they find some fossilized poop and prove it belonged to Paul Revere, there might be an interesting museum display in Boston's future ;)
https://m.phys.org/news/2017-09-sea-outhouse-tied-paul-revere.html
 

WHERE YOU AT WD

Your missing some good information here mate.
 

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Could anybody help me figure out the meaning of this sign ,please?
 

releventchair said:
"Balance" of sex ratio in a deer herd is always going to spark debate.
What an unmolested (by humans ,with weapons including automobiles) herd becomes depends on depredation by other predators , winter severity , and habitat capacity.

Balance of a herd ,nature can deal with.
The bigger concern should be in keeping deer below habitat capacity ,or supplementing tonnage of browse. If you find everything browsed down to pencil sized diameter ,and deer are standing on their hind legs to browse (leaving a high browse line) and deer are eating less desireable things of poor nutrition value ....Then you have a problem.

Your doe are likely homebodies. A mile or two in range.
Your bucks can go fifteen miles if need be during the rut to seek doe.
They hang out in bachelor groups in summer ,usually away from doe.
While doe run off last years fawns and defends new spring time site to drop her new fawns. They (the females and young bucks (if they behave and are not amorous) in the late summer.

Depending on habitat capacity you may or may not have too many deer. Your pics show good weights on them. The one buck I looked over in your pic. did not suffer from much lack of protein or mineral so you look alright from a very small opinion.

We have C.W.D. now in our herd. Quite a game changer , and great debate as to how to manage deer numbers going forward.

I consider the surrounding area here for what deer have for habitat and browse.
They like the security of my land for dodging hunting pressure .
They also have plenty of browse till winter.
Were I to heed some folks and reduce their numbers severely to prevent deer from dispersing and potential C.W.D. spread....I would be affecting about 14 other hunters/landowners directly.
Also would be reducing the deer per square mile more severely than other properties could.

If some one wanted to hunt my land , (and there would be exceptions of certain guests ) , they would be doing habitat improvement ,and general labor year round in exchange for the privilage.

I can control deer numbers on it myself. How to manage those numbers goes beyond what is seen on my property , and concerns the locale's herd as a whole.
If I were going to solicit help ,it would again be disabled hunters and seniors. Friends and family members ? Would depend.....
As old Dad put it ,friendship can turn to hen $@#! .
I owe a couple hunts to others. No problem getting hunters , so there is the luxury of saying No to requests.

Meanwhile the property owner on one side tells me to take good care of her fawns....She does not mean kill them.
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One of the most informative posts I've read on Tnet.
 

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