Wiley E Coyote
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I bought my tags today! That's what I did for them ...
What did you do for the deer today?
- Thread starter giles
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Sprayed two more plots behind the house. It's been a long time since I've planted something in my little creek bottom plot and the area I cleared out last year, will get it's first ever food plot. Both are small, but I enjoy the process and it'll be interesting to see if it impacts our hunting.
I typically keep my mouth shut on social media, but couldn't allow this one to slide.
Looking forward to the updates on that. Lol
Raising question about the effects the corn piles have had on reproduction rates on whitetail deer. I seem to able to find hours/days worth of people talking about human reproduction rates being down because of it and birth control in the water. But nothing about deer. If the people talking about birth control getting in the water from humans passing it thru their body are right, it certainly could play a roll.
What about turkeys? What about all things wildlife related. Only thing that seems to be unharmed is the racoon population. LOL.
Habitat and coyotes seem to catch a big part of the finger pointing, but what is it? I normally start feeding around now to keep deer from wandering and getting killed. But I haven't this year, yet
What about turkeys? What about all things wildlife related. Only thing that seems to be unharmed is the racoon population. LOL.
Habitat and coyotes seem to catch a big part of the finger pointing, but what is it? I normally start feeding around now to keep deer from wandering and getting killed. But I haven't this year, yet
Big_Holla
Senior Member
You have me wondering now Dave. I'm already a glass half empty kind of person but on cameras I have seen 3 fawns all summer, cameras running year round. One doe with twins and a single to another doe. Keep in mind we did get hit with EHD last year too so there could be other underlying reasons. Coyotes and bobcats are definitely running around so who knows. But we also we haven't been sitting in stands yet this year so who knows what others are out there. The idea that GMO corn could be fucking the fawn production is something I hadn't considered.
I have no proof or anything to back it up. Just me brainstorming. I have not seen fawns like I used to. Major change has been corn piles. Corn is not a great source of food/nutrition for anything. Sure, deer are natural browsers and don't "live" off of corn alone. I just know that haven't killed a deer in the last 10 years that wasn't full of corn. From opening weekend to the last weekend. That isn't natural at all.
My research in the past on the related subject is that corn can kill deer certain times of the year. The body can't process it and the deer will actually starve to death with a full stomach. I don't belive this is true today, or in Ohio, but I can see this in places without agriculture/corn.
We were hit hard by EHD last year but I have seen more fawns this year than past years. Lots of does with 2 fawns and one old doe has triplets.
You are in a different class than 99% of people with your deer herd. But either way, do you have piles of corn year around?
No corn year around. Most of the neighbors do have corn around us. We have a feeder on one farm, filled it up in January for winter feeding and its been empty since March. A guy can still kill a deer without corn but everyone seems to think if the neighbors are doing it I have to do it.