deer in yard

[Steve Lindsay]

This deer was visiting the shop yard this morning.

[ihsfab]

Nice young one.

[Mike Anders]

Steve those are some nice pics of Nebraska but wheres all the corn?

[Steve Lindsay]

Deer ate it all.

[chujybear]

I think your cat is thinking 'how tasty'

[DakotaDocMartin]

Mmmmm! Venison on the hoof!

[rbaptiste]

Hi Steve, your cat is very lucky to watch a lot animals ;-) Maybe it is more happy to be on the picture ;-)

[WVEngraver]

Originally Posted by Steve Lindsay

Deer ate it all.

LOL!!!! Yep, that sounds like my first and last experience in farming. $300 bucks for electric fence, $100 additional in water, $50 bucks in seed .... all for $125 bucks in vegetables in which the deer still took half. LOL!!


Thus this week begins the slaughter for PAYBACK!!! God willing and the out of staters don't shoot everything in sight including cattle and the neighborhood pets.

[hand e dave]

Great pics, Steve. Gee, green grass and no snow, you are lucky ! Up here we have two colours, white (snow) and blue (sky), I can't wait for spring. Enjoy your weather.

[Jeff Miller]

It's neat to see deer that close up.When I lived in NW IN we would have deer walk through our yard often,even met a coyote going to work one morning.Since I've moved south though I rarely see deer,go figure?

hand e dave it's supposed to be 77 for the high here Tues.,warm weather is nice but it's just not winter without snow!

[Barry Lee Hands]

Makes me hungry.

[SEngraver]

Hi Steve L,

The photographs are great,thanks.
I too am are hungry now, are you allowed to shoot or trap them for personal use and consumption ( for their meat only) ?

MO

[JJ Roberts]

I see drug free venision on the hoof,the dealer next to me at the gun show has a young buck as a pet.Gary was driving back to his farm when he noticed a road kill,it was a doe.He drag the doe off the road and into the woods and noticed the doe's new born fawn.Gary took the new born home and bottle feed it with goats milk,it's now a year old with 2 inch horns.The buck runs free on the farm and comes in the house.Gary told my wife and I he has rescued other critters,cats,dogs,opossums. Is that a great story. J.J.

[mrthe]

Great pics! you are lucky in having these seen from your window ....and your assistant too!

[tomlittle]

SEngraver,

Dear hunting is a very popular sport here and a very necessary tool to help keep the deer population in control. In some parts of the country, the dear would overrun the land if they aren't managed. I lived in Michigan a few years back and the whole state almost comes to a standstill during dear season because it is so popular.

[SEngraver]

Originally Posted by tomlittle

SEngraver,

Dear hunting is a very popular sport here and a very necessary tool to help keep the deer population in control. In some parts of the country, the dear would overrun the land if they aren't managed. I lived in Michigan a few years back and the whole state almost comes to a standstill during dear season because it is so popular.

Hi Tomlittle,

Thank you ,The "cropping " is important as you say the deer would over run the land.
I can only admire the folks in Michigan during the dear hunting season.
Does one need a permit,licence or some kind of permission for the hunt ? and as to how many each person can hunt ?

SE

[DakotaDocMartin]

Originally Posted by SEngraver

Hi Tomlittle,

Does one need a permit,licence or some kind of permission for the hunt ? and as to how many each person can hunt ?

The purchase of licenses to hunt deer in most of the states is by a lottery drawing. They oftentimes have early and late seasons, antlered, antlerless, deer gun (high powered rifles or shotguns with slugs), muzzle loader, bow season, etc. Then, there may be additional drawings as necessary. Here in North Dakota it's often possible to take 5 or more deer per person. We have whitetails and mule deer which are considered two species so they each have a season.

Then there are the moose, elk (wapiti), pronghorn antelope... etc.

[Sam Welch]

You guys keep talking about being hungery so I appropriately shot this photo out the dining room window.

[Hybridfiat]

Yum Yum
All we have are snakes and bandicoots

[SEngraver]

Hi,

Thank you Doc.Martin. That must be an awesome time for all deer stalkers and it must also be conducive for the local towns business -wise.

SE