Deer Transformation Photos
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January. Even through a Northern Minnesota winter they are gaining weight rapidly. They had heated water, free choice 2nd crop alfalfa/clover hay, a 5 gallon bucket of custom grind feed twice daily. They also have a 30% protein tub (250 lbs) and a box of loose Purina deer mineral.
Also they feasted this winter on apple peelings, and other trimmings from the kitchen.
Also they feasted this winter on apple peelings, and other trimmings from the kitchen.
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Wow, I really do see a difference. I think your'e doing great with them. They are a nice looking herd, nice mixture of color. Keep up the good work. You have some happy deer there.
Thank you Scott and Antlershed. We can't wait to see how much antler grows this year! I will take the time to get some good photos of them tomorrow. The growth is just explosive!
You have obviously done a great job with that heard and with fallow deer that is no easy task!
I have never raised them in a pen type situation but, we have a decent sized herd we have because they are beautiful. They mostly roam around on our home place.
I bought 3 does that we're basically house broken for my daughter year ago. They actually were raised wearing diapers! Anyhow we put them on a small cross fenced section. Y our house and still have them for my girls. They are more gentle than most dogs. Once we had them we brought a buck in to breed them and that was great. As our herd grew we dispersed them into the larger part of the ranch.
Never in my life have I seen bucks that hated each other like fallow bucks do. It doesn't matter their age or even if it is breeding season. The second they strip velvet they try to kill each other and do fairly often. I gav up trying to keep up with them. It it never fails that we lose some bucks each year that were either locked up or injured bad,y fighting and we didn't find them soon enough. Other than what takes place naturally I will never have any more! They are the hardest an,ills in the world to raise because the bucks fight so bad.
So again, congrats on a great job! You must have some mad skills or a LOT of patience!
I have never raised them in a pen type situation but, we have a decent sized herd we have because they are beautiful. They mostly roam around on our home place.
I bought 3 does that we're basically house broken for my daughter year ago. They actually were raised wearing diapers! Anyhow we put them on a small cross fenced section. Y our house and still have them for my girls. They are more gentle than most dogs. Once we had them we brought a buck in to breed them and that was great. As our herd grew we dispersed them into the larger part of the ranch.
Never in my life have I seen bucks that hated each other like fallow bucks do. It doesn't matter their age or even if it is breeding season. The second they strip velvet they try to kill each other and do fairly often. I gav up trying to keep up with them. It it never fails that we lose some bucks each year that were either locked up or injured bad,y fighting and we didn't find them soon enough. Other than what takes place naturally I will never have any more! They are the hardest an,ills in the world to raise because the bucks fight so bad.
So again, congrats on a great job! You must have some mad skills or a LOT of patience!
We did lose one buck, there was one that was a real jerk and was hurting the other deer. Even tossing the fawns in the air and slamming does into the walls of the shed and stuff. We took him down and sawed his antlers off. He did find for about a month, but then one of the spike bucks nailed him, and penetrated a lung. Not much you can do for a sucking chest wound.
Our next main task is figuring out how to trim their feet. 
Its not like my goats that I can just put them on the milk stand.
Its not like my goats that I can just put them on the milk stand.
fallow said:Our next main task is figuring out how to trim their feet.
Its not like my goats that I can just put them on the milk stand.
Put some rough stone around the feeder to prevent them growing "slippers".
You should never have to trim the toes.
Cheers Sharkey
Yes that is what we plan on doing. We have a passageway they walk through daily and we plan on pouring concrete and then embedding sharp gravel to make a giant emery board.
The people we got the deer from kept them in about 2 feet of wet soggy soiled hay and bedding, so they never got to wear them down.
The people we got the deer from kept them in about 2 feet of wet soggy soiled hay and bedding, so they never got to wear them down.
