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QUALITY DEER MANAGEMENT WORKS ON SMALL PROPERTY
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QUALITY TURKEY MANAGEMENT WORKS ON SMALL PROPERTY
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Recommend Management Shows - Online
These are the Best information you from these professionals.
a. Growing Deer TV with Dr. Grant Woods -
www.growingdeer.tv
b. The Management Advantage with Chuck Sykes - www.themanagmentadvantage.com
www.growingdeer.tv
b. The Management Advantage with Chuck Sykes - www.themanagmentadvantage.com
If you really want _to be sure of the age of whitetail doe and bucks on your farm then you need to send in the front bottom teeth with root to Matson's Laboratory in Montana - Below are the result of two deer in 2012 at buck with weight at 165 lbs and doe 140 lbs and will be finding out the result of 5 deer from 2013 to 2015.
See Complete photos and age of all deer with front teeth results.
WHITETAIL DEER HOMEMADE MINERAL MIX RECIPE
This one hole was started March 2007 and photo was taken July of 2009 and at that time has 1200 lbs of mineral.
Ingredients: Makes 200 lbs. for about $35.00 The price has gone up but used to be around $25.00
1 part Di-calcium phosphate, this is a dairy feed additive bought at feed stores.
Comes in 50lb Bags at around $34.00 you need one bag.
2 parts Trace mineral salt, the red and loose kind without the medications.
Comes in 50lb Bags at around $6.00 you need two bags.
1 part Stock salt, ice cream salt.
Comes in 50lb Bags at around $4.00 you need one bag.
Directions:
Put entire 200 lbs into one hole
-Dig or tear up a circle in the soil about 36 inches wide and about 6 to 12 inches deep. Myself I replenish in March and in August.
-Dig ground Mix your mineral mixture with the soil.
Helpful hints from horntagger:
One is best times to put it out is February/March/April and I put all 200 lbs in one hole. This time of year will help more with antler growth, and fawn health, plus deer will need salt for shedding winter to summer coat.
Also do not make multiple licks unless you are on large tracts of land. Remember deer herd home range is around 800 acres. Rule of Thumb 1 per 40 acres.
Also keep it in one spot so near the center or the spot you start hunting. Keeping the deer on your land for the most amount of time increases your odds.
Also I like a water source to be within 100 yards since salt is being used.
I put it out in late summer (First of August) just put 200lbs won't do as much for them now, other than salt requirements. But will be a great draw. Because of shedding of the summer coat begins around August, the deer need the salt so that is the next best time of year to replenish if needed.
Very Important - Try to find a overhanging branch, it will become a like a scrape also.
You will be amazed on how well this works. I have been using this since the year 2000.
The ultimate goal of mineral supplements in deer management is to increase antler size and improve overall health of deer herds by providing minerals or trace minerals that may be lacking in a given area.
Although the jury is still out on effects of mineral supplements on wild deer populations since most studies have been on pen raised deer. Studies on wild population have been inconclusive and to a degree the same on pen raised deer due to other variables such as supplemental feeding that takes place in these areas. The direct benefits will probably be far greater in certain regions that lack certain trace minerals in the soil and plants.
One mixture or home recipe of deer minerals we recommend to landowners is a mix of one part Dicalcium Phosphate, 2 parts trace mineral salt (loose), and 1 part loose stock salt. All of these are available to purchase at most local feed and farm supply stores.
Just to give you a little background on these minerals and what they are designed to do lets start with the Dicalcium Phosphate
Dicalcium phosphate is used primarily as dairy cattle feed additive and other animal feeds. It promotes feed digestion, weight gain, and milk production, which is obviously beneficial to a lactating doe deer. Dicalcium phosphate contains roughly between 18 and 21 percent phosphorus and 19 to 23 percent calcium.
You're probably asking why this is important by now. Well if your talking about growing antlers on deer you need to take a look at what is the makeup of a deer antler.
Hardened antlers contain 40 to 50 percent organic matter from mostly proteins while the most abundant minerals consist of calcium and phosphorus. The demands for these minerals on a daily basis can be significant for antler production.
In addition, a lactating doe's milk contains high percentages of both calcium and phosphorus to pass on to their young, also causing a significant mineral drain on the doe. What makes all this significant is the fact that phosphorous cannot be synthesized by the body so it must be provided in needed levels in the animal’s diet. This is where a mineral mix such as this could be very valuable if an area is lacking in these naturally.
Trace mineral salts do two things for deer. The first and foremost is it does have the salt/sodium to attract the deer and promote the use of the mineral. Secondly, it provides the trace minerals such as magnesium and potassium that are very important to herd health but are not found in significant quantities like others.
Stock salt is again like part of the above. It has the sodium to attract deer to the minerals. Most mineral mixes have salt as their most abundant ingredient since a mix of just phosphorus, calcium, and other trace minerals have little attraction to deer once mixed with the soil.
Myself I replenish in March and in August. Most use seems to be during the spring and summer months on mineral licks. It's a good idea to keep these areas replenished and stocked in the same spot to maintain use.
Also when doing Deer Population Survey, this is one of the best spots to do it, you will feel up memory cards fast. Also remember the Bucks will really show up in August to this spot so you will see what using your property just before the season. Also Doe that bring fawns to this site those fawns will bring their off spring to this site and you will have generation of deer coming to your mineral lick.
Ingredients: Makes 200 lbs. for about $35.00 The price has gone up but used to be around $25.00
1 part Di-calcium phosphate, this is a dairy feed additive bought at feed stores.
Comes in 50lb Bags at around $34.00 you need one bag.
2 parts Trace mineral salt, the red and loose kind without the medications.
Comes in 50lb Bags at around $6.00 you need two bags.
1 part Stock salt, ice cream salt.
Comes in 50lb Bags at around $4.00 you need one bag.
Directions:
Put entire 200 lbs into one hole
-Dig or tear up a circle in the soil about 36 inches wide and about 6 to 12 inches deep. Myself I replenish in March and in August.
-Dig ground Mix your mineral mixture with the soil.
Helpful hints from horntagger:
One is best times to put it out is February/March/April and I put all 200 lbs in one hole. This time of year will help more with antler growth, and fawn health, plus deer will need salt for shedding winter to summer coat.
Also do not make multiple licks unless you are on large tracts of land. Remember deer herd home range is around 800 acres. Rule of Thumb 1 per 40 acres.
Also keep it in one spot so near the center or the spot you start hunting. Keeping the deer on your land for the most amount of time increases your odds.
Also I like a water source to be within 100 yards since salt is being used.
I put it out in late summer (First of August) just put 200lbs won't do as much for them now, other than salt requirements. But will be a great draw. Because of shedding of the summer coat begins around August, the deer need the salt so that is the next best time of year to replenish if needed.
Very Important - Try to find a overhanging branch, it will become a like a scrape also.
You will be amazed on how well this works. I have been using this since the year 2000.
The ultimate goal of mineral supplements in deer management is to increase antler size and improve overall health of deer herds by providing minerals or trace minerals that may be lacking in a given area.
Although the jury is still out on effects of mineral supplements on wild deer populations since most studies have been on pen raised deer. Studies on wild population have been inconclusive and to a degree the same on pen raised deer due to other variables such as supplemental feeding that takes place in these areas. The direct benefits will probably be far greater in certain regions that lack certain trace minerals in the soil and plants.
One mixture or home recipe of deer minerals we recommend to landowners is a mix of one part Dicalcium Phosphate, 2 parts trace mineral salt (loose), and 1 part loose stock salt. All of these are available to purchase at most local feed and farm supply stores.
Just to give you a little background on these minerals and what they are designed to do lets start with the Dicalcium Phosphate
Dicalcium phosphate is used primarily as dairy cattle feed additive and other animal feeds. It promotes feed digestion, weight gain, and milk production, which is obviously beneficial to a lactating doe deer. Dicalcium phosphate contains roughly between 18 and 21 percent phosphorus and 19 to 23 percent calcium.
You're probably asking why this is important by now. Well if your talking about growing antlers on deer you need to take a look at what is the makeup of a deer antler.
Hardened antlers contain 40 to 50 percent organic matter from mostly proteins while the most abundant minerals consist of calcium and phosphorus. The demands for these minerals on a daily basis can be significant for antler production.
In addition, a lactating doe's milk contains high percentages of both calcium and phosphorus to pass on to their young, also causing a significant mineral drain on the doe. What makes all this significant is the fact that phosphorous cannot be synthesized by the body so it must be provided in needed levels in the animal’s diet. This is where a mineral mix such as this could be very valuable if an area is lacking in these naturally.
Trace mineral salts do two things for deer. The first and foremost is it does have the salt/sodium to attract the deer and promote the use of the mineral. Secondly, it provides the trace minerals such as magnesium and potassium that are very important to herd health but are not found in significant quantities like others.
Stock salt is again like part of the above. It has the sodium to attract deer to the minerals. Most mineral mixes have salt as their most abundant ingredient since a mix of just phosphorus, calcium, and other trace minerals have little attraction to deer once mixed with the soil.
Myself I replenish in March and in August. Most use seems to be during the spring and summer months on mineral licks. It's a good idea to keep these areas replenished and stocked in the same spot to maintain use.
Also when doing Deer Population Survey, this is one of the best spots to do it, you will feel up memory cards fast. Also remember the Bucks will really show up in August to this spot so you will see what using your property just before the season. Also Doe that bring fawns to this site those fawns will bring their off spring to this site and you will have generation of deer coming to your mineral lick.
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2nd Homemade Mineral Lick Site
This site was establish in March of 2009 and had 200 lbs in it when this photo was taken July 2009.
Below are photo using 35 mm game camera, Mineral lick site was started in 2000 on this piece of property in Southern Missouri along the Arkansas Border. Photo at mineral lick start in 2001 and end in 2003.
You here this from different sources every year. “There are no studies that have proven that mineral licks have benefit to deer”
Well I believe that is true – When you are putting 20 lb. block or bucket once or twice a year, really what effect can that have.
Now change that to 1,200 lbs. of mineral in a years’ time or 7,900 lbs of mineral in 10 years you bet that will make a difference.
But you have to keep in mind that, it’s not the magic bullet you still have to manage your timber, food plots, natural forage, cover, water and etc. It’s an all around effort.
But minerals can play a role but not in a 20 lb effort but maybe in a 200 lb effort.
Recycle your Artificial Christmas tree
Missouri Department of Conservation has for years recycled REAL Christmas Trees for cover for wildlife on Conservation Grounds and also for fish cover.
But what about Artificial Christmas Trees?
Artificial Christmas trees can have a second life if recycled. Doing so ensures you’re helping to save landfill space, reusing useful materials, and cutting your overall holiday footprint.
Recycling your Artificial Christmas tree helps you go green because...
It keeps PVC—a highly toxic substance found in artificial trees—out of landfills and water supplies.
More people purchase and display artificial trees from year to year than those with real trees.
Although artificial trees last longer than real trees, most are made from PVC (polyvinyl chloride), a soft plastic used commonly in consumer products that poses severe environmental risks throughout its life cycle. PVC is not recyclable, nor is it biodegradable. When disposed of, lead, phthalates, and other toxic additives contained in the PVC can leach into the ground and drinking water supplies from landfills.
Incineration of PVC products is also problematic since it produces dioxins and furans, which are among the most toxic environmental contaminants and are known carcinogens.
PUT THE TURKEY IN YOUR ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREE
Hunters and Conservationist have been helping the habitat and wildlife long before it was popular and have been going green long before anyone ever used the term. Just one example of how one local hunter and conservationist has help recycled individual’s artificial trees.
Each year for past 15 years I have looked for people getting rid of their artificial trees and I take them to my land and use them as turkey and deer hunting blinds.
They don’t fade or rot and does not matter if the metal rust, does not matter if they have lights or no lights. They collect leaves and makes great places to relax and setup for the hunt.
The rest of the year rabbits, song birds and other animals will use them as cover and nesting places.
So don’t throw away your Artificial Christmas Tree as a landowner or hunter if he wants it or let me know.
But what about Artificial Christmas Trees?
Artificial Christmas trees can have a second life if recycled. Doing so ensures you’re helping to save landfill space, reusing useful materials, and cutting your overall holiday footprint.
Recycling your Artificial Christmas tree helps you go green because...
It keeps PVC—a highly toxic substance found in artificial trees—out of landfills and water supplies.
More people purchase and display artificial trees from year to year than those with real trees.
Although artificial trees last longer than real trees, most are made from PVC (polyvinyl chloride), a soft plastic used commonly in consumer products that poses severe environmental risks throughout its life cycle. PVC is not recyclable, nor is it biodegradable. When disposed of, lead, phthalates, and other toxic additives contained in the PVC can leach into the ground and drinking water supplies from landfills.
Incineration of PVC products is also problematic since it produces dioxins and furans, which are among the most toxic environmental contaminants and are known carcinogens.
PUT THE TURKEY IN YOUR ARTIFICIAL CHRISTMAS TREE
Hunters and Conservationist have been helping the habitat and wildlife long before it was popular and have been going green long before anyone ever used the term. Just one example of how one local hunter and conservationist has help recycled individual’s artificial trees.
Each year for past 15 years I have looked for people getting rid of their artificial trees and I take them to my land and use them as turkey and deer hunting blinds.
They don’t fade or rot and does not matter if the metal rust, does not matter if they have lights or no lights. They collect leaves and makes great places to relax and setup for the hunt.
The rest of the year rabbits, song birds and other animals will use them as cover and nesting places.
So don’t throw away your Artificial Christmas Tree as a landowner or hunter if he wants it or let me know.
Purple Top Turnips
With the lack of acorns occur in Missouri your late season food source become a key factor in management of you whitetail deer herd on you property and also can increase your chance for late season hunting.
Turnips are just one type of last season food source. They love them green tops after the a few days have heavy frost.
Turnips are just one type of last season food source. They love them green tops after the a few days have heavy frost.
Apples another great source of food in the early fall
FLUSHING BARS FOR FAWNS
By: Allen “horntagger” Morris
KILLING FAWNS
Here in Missouri the things that kill fawns are Ticks, Coyotes, Bobcats, Hogs, Black Bears and your free ranging Dog all kill fawns, even the fawn that crosses the road gets hit by cars. That is just to name the main killers of fawns. The one I left out was tractors.
Not all fawns are meant to live that is mothers nature way of control but in some areas every fawn counts and if you want to try to save what you can as a farmer, so why not put a flushing bar on your tractor while you are bush hogging, or cutting hay.
A fawn has to grow up and that one fawn could be a record buck.
FLUSHING BARS
I read about this I guess many years ago. Flushing bars can be mounted on the front of a tractor to move wildlife from the path of dangerous cutters and wheels. This is not a new invention but an old one lost to modern times. They even had poster about them from the 1930’s and designs for 1950’s tractors.
They are made different in Europe and Canada and they even have a electrified version that would shock the fawn and make it run.
I have yet to see this used here in Southeast Missouri, but I am not out on every farm either. But would be nice if someone does use it here in Southeast Missouri while cutting hay or bush hogging in June to send in a photo to The Banner Press and show your success.
Have you ever seen one?
Do they work like they say?
Today they have a website just for Flushing Bars – The Flushing Bar Project, you can find current designs for free, photos, videos; you can talk with others also,
http://www.theflushingbarproject.net
You can save more than just a fawn, also hens, turkey poults, quail, and pheasant and even save your equipment and the time of getting your equipment going again.
YOU THE FARMER CAN SAVE A FAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By: Allen “horntagger” Morris
KILLING FAWNS
Here in Missouri the things that kill fawns are Ticks, Coyotes, Bobcats, Hogs, Black Bears and your free ranging Dog all kill fawns, even the fawn that crosses the road gets hit by cars. That is just to name the main killers of fawns. The one I left out was tractors.
Not all fawns are meant to live that is mothers nature way of control but in some areas every fawn counts and if you want to try to save what you can as a farmer, so why not put a flushing bar on your tractor while you are bush hogging, or cutting hay.
A fawn has to grow up and that one fawn could be a record buck.
FLUSHING BARS
I read about this I guess many years ago. Flushing bars can be mounted on the front of a tractor to move wildlife from the path of dangerous cutters and wheels. This is not a new invention but an old one lost to modern times. They even had poster about them from the 1930’s and designs for 1950’s tractors.
They are made different in Europe and Canada and they even have a electrified version that would shock the fawn and make it run.
I have yet to see this used here in Southeast Missouri, but I am not out on every farm either. But would be nice if someone does use it here in Southeast Missouri while cutting hay or bush hogging in June to send in a photo to The Banner Press and show your success.
Have you ever seen one?
Do they work like they say?
Today they have a website just for Flushing Bars – The Flushing Bar Project, you can find current designs for free, photos, videos; you can talk with others also,
http://www.theflushingbarproject.net
You can save more than just a fawn, also hens, turkey poults, quail, and pheasant and even save your equipment and the time of getting your equipment going again.
YOU THE FARMER CAN SAVE A FAWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NO TRESPASSING
No more buying purple paint, no more repainting 1 1/2 miles of property lines one 30 gallon drum gets me , 21 pieces and a lid and bottom to put No Trespassing signs. May not stop low life trespassers but at least it saves me labor and money for the next several dozen years and more.