feeding deer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deer are wild animals. If you feed them, they will have no fear of humans and start “begging” for food.

I don't feed them in person. They live in my yard anyway, in the section that grows wild next to county property.

You will carry the food to the stand with your human-stinking hand, yes? Deer have great noses. When they smell humans on their food, they associate food with humans. When they can walk up to five feet away from your house and acclimate to you, they associate food with humans and no longer have fear of us. It’s not going to get ugly for you like it would if a bear associated humans with food, but feeding deer is not a good idea for health, ecological, social and probably a host of other reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Deer are wild animals. If you feed them, they will have no fear of humans and start “begging” for food.

I don't feed them in person. They live in my yard anyway, in the section that grows wild next to county property.

You will carry the food to the stand with your human-stinking hand, yes? Deer have great noses. When they smell humans on their food, they associate food with humans. When they can walk up to five feet away from your house and acclimate to you, they associate food with humans and no longer have fear of us. It’s not going to get ugly for you like it would if a bear associated humans with food, but feeding deer is not a good idea for health, ecological, social and probably a host of other reasons.

No, I use my garden glove, and there is no stand. And why do you assume five feet from the house? It's more like 100 feet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Rodents also love corn, and snakes love rodents.

It was the snakes that finally convinced me to get rid of the bird feeders. Would imagine feeding deer would be similar.

I'm thinking pythons

If we introduced pythons to the region they would naturally control the deer population. Drastic times call for drastic measures .

Let's give this some serious thought!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rodents also love corn, and snakes love rodents.

It was the snakes that finally convinced me to get rid of the bird feeders. Would imagine feeding deer would be similar.

I'm thinking pythons

If we introduced pythons to the region they would naturally control the deer population. Drastic times call for drastic measures .

Let's give this some serious thought!

I'm a PP. I agree- we could get some really annoying children out of the way, too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right now I'm staying with a friend in NJ, in a dense suburban neighborhood, where the deer graze daily in everyone's yards. They don't care when you pull up in your car next to them, and the moms with babies look at you defiantly when you are near them.

My friend totalled her car last year when she ran into one of them. The large population here is a big problem, and should not be encouraged.

This why crossbows exist.

Cheap, silent, and kills deer dead.

+11 !!!!!!

We killed 11 - ELEVEN! - deer in our back yard last year no one ever had a clue! That was a record since we moved here. Once we put corn and apples out, they were coming in all summer. Fall rolled around, we take the window screen out of the boy's room, and it's instant deer hunt.

[Anonymous]

That’s Awesome!!! I do the same thing, I love it when I injure them and then a few days later I see them gimping them around with an arrow stuck in them

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That’s Awesome!!! I do the same thing, I love it when I injure them and then a few days later I see them gimping them around with an arrow stuck in them

You need to move up to a crossbow with a heavier draw and higher velocity. If you're consistently wounding them and not getting through-and-through penetration (seeing an arrow stuck in them) that's a clear indication your bow is not powerful enough and/or your broadhead isn't sharp enough. Arrows kill deer by exsanguination, by cutting major blood vessels, and getting that blood out of the deer through the exit hole in the hide. If the arrow fails to create that exit hole, the animal may not bleed out rapidly. A bow with at least 400 fps on a 100 gram arrow is ideal for getting the arrow into the animal and out the other side, cleanly. I use an Excalibur recurve crossbow. It runs about 410 fps with 80 gram carbon arrows. Also, try for neck shots whenever possible. The blood vessels are much closer together, the cross section of the animal is thinner, and even if you miss the vessels, you'll still probably hit either the trachea or vertebrae/spine. A spinal hit will literally drop it where it's standing.

[Anonymous]

idiots.

[Anonymous]

Feeding corn to deer is terrible for the deer. Corn doesn’t have the right nutrients, but it makes them feel full and they don’t eat other food. It also gathers the deer in tight groups, which spreads diseases. This is why it is illegal in many jurisdictions.

[Anonymous]

Feeding corn to deer is terrible for the deer. Corn doesn’t have the right nutrients, but it makes them feel full and they don’t eat other food. It also gathers the deer in tight groups, which spreads diseases. This is why it is illegal in many jurisdictions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right now I'm staying with a friend in NJ, in a dense suburban neighborhood, where the deer graze daily in everyone's yards. They don't care when you pull up in your car next to them, and the moms with babies look at you defiantly when you are near them.

My friend totalled her car last year when she ran into one of them. The large population here is a big problem, and should not be encouraged.

This why crossbows exist.

Cheap, silent, and kills deer dead.

+11 !!!!!!

We killed 11 - ELEVEN! - deer in our back yard last year no one ever had a clue! That was a record since we moved here. Once we put corn and apples out, they were coming in all summer. Fall rolled around, we take the window screen out of the boy's room, and it's instant deer hunt.

You hunt deer from your bedroom window? What do you do with the carcass?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Right now I'm staying with a friend in NJ, in a dense suburban neighborhood, where the deer graze daily in everyone's yards. They don't care when you pull up in your car next to them, and the moms with babies look at you defiantly when you are near them.

My friend totalled her car last year when she ran into one of them. The large population here is a big problem, and should not be encouraged.

This why crossbows exist.

Cheap, silent, and kills deer dead.

+11 !!!!!!

We killed 11 - ELEVEN! - deer in our back yard last year no one ever had a clue! That was a record since we moved here. Once we put corn and apples out, they were coming in all summer. Fall rolled around, we take the window screen out of the boy's room, and it's instant deer hunt.

You hunt deer from your bedroom window? What do you do with the carcass?

What?!?!

We EAT them, of course!

[Anonymous]

I have several bear traps that I set in my backyard for the deer. Have caught and killed a dozen and it’s barely September

[Anonymous]

Unless you plan to take them out with cross bows, you will end up with a decimated yard and your neighbors yards will be eaten up as well. And then the deer will be so healthy they will have more fawns, and then they will run out in front of cars in your neighborhood.

So if you don't plan to kill the deer and eat them, don't feed them.

[Anonymous]

Where do all of your window-shooting-deer-hunters live in the DC area? I thought this was a joke at first. But ya'll are serious.