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Get em Isaac!!
Eagle problems!!!
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I was more excited about the 4-th of July party than the safety of the deer. We feel we will test gun-shots before fireworks, to see if any danger exists. Looking for your thoughts.
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Ike thats where bottle feeding pays off...
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Isaac, dispatching the eagle may not be the best thing, they taste like spotted-owls, a little tough and fishy.
Ya, in Wisconsin you can use those kind of fireworks, but here in Minnesota we have to use the sparkle ones that just sit on the ground unless we go across the border and smuggle them over. I still think that a stuffed eagle over the fireplace with a bearskin rug on the floor would look pretty impressive!!!!!
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Checking the pens late this afternoon ( 4 pm) and I could see two ravens on the ground , I had tagged triplet does at 10 am one of them was almost picked clean, just head and hide left, started making plans to add ravens to the extinct species list, had not had any problems with them before. Went back to the house to calm down,Took another look at the fawn she had a crushed skull then I had an Einstien and realized that a raven is not big enough to crush a 6 lb fawns skull in the shape of a deer hoof. ravens off the hook.... of all the animal mascots who would name a NFL team after an animal that eats nothing but rotting flesh... the more rotten the better. Looks like I have one mean momma out there,can't even blame it on PMS.
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Wild Rivers Whitetails said:
Thank you Wild Rivers Whitetails we all thought that was an excellent idea... so much so in fact that we got to implementing it as as soon as we could! Here's a photo... Thank you for such a great idea!
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See John that's what I was talking BIG FARM little farm...
I have $12.00 barrels
UHMMM they went a little bigger...
When I bought my Maxbo Extreme and Maxbo XL fawns I was hoping to be able to cut a coupon from the auction book... like buy one get one free or something...No such luck
Hey where did the other picture go Isaac??
I have $12.00 barrels
UHMMM they went a little bigger...
When I bought my Maxbo Extreme and Maxbo XL fawns I was hoping to be able to cut a coupon from the auction book... like buy one get one free or something...No such luck
Hey where did the other picture go Isaac??
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The barrels are great, they give them a place to hide, or stay warm and dry. We have used the white barrels mostly because it is what we were able to get. They do stay a little cooler later in the summer than the black ones. But the main thing is to give the fawns some shelter and shade. We usually pick them up in the fall because the deer will knock them around later during the breeding season - especially the bucks.
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Dear Mr. Jack, we purchased 20 foot culvert pipe, with a 24 inch inside diameter from a local supplier, at $12.00 a foot. We cut the pipe in four foot sections and slightly buried them in the ground next to the fence. We use black so that sun heats during the day and helps our early fawns stay warm at night. We picked 24 inches so that adult deer wont climb in. In the heat of the summer we fence in willow trees in the middle of our pens. This provides a 60 foot mushroom the deer eat the branches 6 ft. high and no matter where the sun is positioned there is shade to be found. We still see eagles but to our knowledge we have not lost any fawns!!!