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Most livestock animals we raise are being raised for food. Is there some written rule we deer farmers don't know about that says we can't enjoy or love raising deer? Is there a rule we are to hate the animals we raise so some can be harvested for food. I don't think so. We all place ourselves in the lives of the animals we raise. I want to have fun raising these animals. I don't think any of us can breed out the instincts these deer have in our lifetime. I say this because deer I raised on my farm in small pens were tame but when moved to the hunting ranch would take only a few weeks to be just like wild deer. The hiding and instincts that protect deer from predators kicks in and they quickly revert back to being just a deer. Break the food dependability and 90% of the deer quickly go back to being deer in just a few weeks.In summer my small pens are not used and the deer are left in large 60 acre pens. The same deer which would stand 5 feet from me are now 100 plus footers or at the other side of the 60 acres.If hunting ranches were to place the deer in the summer and leave them alone to fend for food by themselves by hunting time the deer would be just like wild deer. When I had the hunting ranch I would do this and my elk and deer at hunting time were not pets anymore.Antis will always find things to criticize the raising of deer, it's just their way. My opinion is if I can't pet some of the deer or bottle raise them I might as well raise hogs or cattle cause I don't give a hoot about them.
Most livestock animals we raise are being raised for food. Is there some written rule we deer farmers don't know about that says we can't enjoy or love raising deer? Is there a rule we are to hate the animals we raise so some can be harvested for food. I don't think so.
We all place ourselves in the lives of the animals we raise. I want to have fun raising these animals. I don't think any of us can breed out the instincts these deer have in our lifetime. I say this because deer I raised on my farm in small pens were tame but when moved to the hunting ranch would take only a few weeks to be just like wild deer. The hiding and instincts that protect deer from predators kicks in and they quickly revert back to being just a deer. Break the food dependability and 90% of the deer quickly go back to being deer in just a few weeks.
In summer my small pens are not used and the deer are left in large 60 acre pens. The same deer which would stand 5 feet from me are now 100 plus footers or at the other side of the 60 acres.
If hunting ranches were to place the deer in the summer and leave them alone to fend for food by themselves by hunting time the deer would be just like wild deer. When I had the hunting ranch I would do this and my elk and deer at hunting time were not pets anymore.
Antis will always find things to criticize the raising of deer, it's just their way. My opinion is if I can't pet some of the deer or bottle raise them I might as well raise hogs or cattle cause I don't give a hoot about them.
