Future Farmer

Hello everyone,



My girlfriend/Fiancee and I just recently purchased a house in San Marcos, Tx. and I'm starting my second semester at Texas State University working towards a Wildlife Biology degree. For the last year or so I have been researching Wild game farms/preserves of all sorts, that breed for varous reasons. Spent countless hours on the TPWD website reading up on permits, licencing, etc. So I have a pretty solid idea of the legal requirments for starting a Cervid farm to include roughly equipment and facilities required. Well I understand as much as someone who uses "Google" to get information. My personal mission over the next 2-3 years is to develop a very solid and sound buisness plan to start a Cervid Farm. I am currently volunteering at the Freeman Ranch here in San Marcos for some basic ranching experiece since I have NONE. My intent on this forum is to pick the brain's of all you Cervid farmers out there for info on basic operating procedures, problems and solutions encountered in breeding I may encounter. I apologize for the lengthy nature of this post been following this forum site for 6 months now and just today officially registered. Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated. Thank you for your time!!

Thank you for your reply Robbie! Your absolutly right, I should have been a bit more specific. I was a little excited about posting for the first time and did not want to come off illprepared or childish amongst proffesionals. I should have been more specific in asking for potential contact information so that I may speak with Cervid farmers directly. Thank you for your time.

Thank you Scott I will most definantly look that up. As a matter of fact, my next question was in about that area of advice IndependenceRanch. Since I live in San Marcos Texas, would any of you Cervid farmers in the area mind If I call or come visit? I am familiar with a few farmers/ranchers I looked up via this forum, Deerconnection.com, and Texasdeerassociatoin.com. I would take the initiative and call these farmers, however I do not want to seem rude by calling without some insight on who I was. Thank you for your insight and your time!!

Thank you Thiex, and that is EXACTLY what I intend to do. I see alot of the same advice floating around as I surf over the threads on this forum, advice I do not intend to take so lightly. Thank you, thank you Thiex and the rest of you for your help and warm welcomes. Would you guys recommend I be a bit bolder and just call a farm rather then wait for an invitation to call from a member on this site in my area? Please do not mistaken this as a lack of serousness on my part to gather intel, I just don't want to come off rude. Thank you for your time.

Thank you Curtis! As I write this I have a spiral note book that is opened to my section on fencing. I noticed in reading that people intrested in farming in farming seem to have more emphasis on superior deer genetics rather than there pen and holding facility layout, let alon state permits. I dont know, I may be wrong in this but it would seem it doesn't matter if you have superior or inferior deer genetics if you can't keep them healthy or better yet simply contained in your pasture. Thank you again Curtis. Oh, and Curtis, on the note of...notes, I am on my second note book on the subject of Deerfarming. =)

Thanks again IndependenceRanch! And its a coincidence you should mention the short phone call. I called up Robbie with Brushcountrygenetics just as she was arriving at a friends home, thus cutting the phone call short. lol However, we will be in contact again this weekend, I'm looking forword to it. I also happend to move in next door to one of the sons of the owner of, what I think is either Double F or FF ranch out near Sanoma Texas. And he has been VERY helpfull with Knowledge on the subject. He has invited me out to the ranch for a tour the next time they go, so I'm very excited. Thanks again for your help Independenceranch!!