Our sad deer situation
In the past we have had many herds of deer walk/run through our property and always enjoyed watching them. The most we've had at one time was 37 in a herd. Gradually that number has diminished to the point we are down to 1 single young doe that we see most days.
With deer running in front of vehicles, and various diseases, and unethical hunters taking more than they are allowed, the deer population is slowly depleting at least in our area.
The day is coming when they will be all gone.
Joe
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I can't hardly remember a time when I went to town and didn't see at least one that was struck by a vehicle. The amount of deer around here is insane.
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We had a beautiful older doe on our road hit in the day... Thank goodness her fawns made it. People don't care.
They don't even care if cows are out they just have to get by at any cost.
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37 in a single herd is way to many, guessing cwd is in your area? if so the herd reduction is nessesary, if not something else is wrong
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When I was a boy growing up,there were no deer in this area.You had to drive 75 miles to hunt and you were lucky to even see a deer.Now we have plenty of deer.In the yard almost every night.I have been watching an old doe for the last several years.She usually produces 2 or 3 fawns a year.Every year a big buck shows up about Christmas and in the spring she drops her new fawns.
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I see them when we are out for a walk around the neighborhood. Heck they will come and eat the flowers out of our flower beds
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Read an article that stated there are more deer killed on Wisconsin Highways each year then there were in he entire country at the turn of the last century (1899-1900)! Went on to say we're their dinner plate due to the vast fields of corn, etc we produce every year.
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The opposite in my area. There is far more deer than there was ten years ago.
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We never seen a deer or even a track growing up but this year I didn't put out a corn crop because last year the deer destroyed it. We also never had any turkey or bear either, now we have everything.
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Put a classic/hotrod on the road, you will see deer!
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I see them big horn ones almost everywhere until I get in the woods during deer season.
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We have tons of deer here in Southern Ohio. They are high on the list for causing auto damage from deer/car collisions. During rut the number splattered on the highways is very high. During the spring the fawns are especially troublesome around dusk and dawn.
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We have tons of deer here in Southern Ohio. They are high on the list for causing auto damage from deer/car collisions. During rut the number splattered on the highways is very high. During the spring the fawns are especially troublesome around dusk and dawn.
Yep, I can see the ditches having more fawns in them real soon...😥
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Plenty here. CWD is being found about 100 miles east.
Saw my first fawn today. Nanny was trying to get it across the road. Very little traffic I hope for a while at least.
She was in the road and the little feller dropped in the grass just off pavement. barely could see it's itty bitty ears.
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Up date.
Went out just a few minutes ago to move small excavator. NOOOO.
Nanny had bedded her fawn down right against one of the tracks.
Less than a day old I would guess.
There goes the bush hogging for a few weeks.
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There are 6-8 in our hay field feeding almost every night. Some of the last days of hunting season last year, they would 20 or so bedding down in our patch in the back of our place. Plenty of deer around here right now.
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When we first bought our property I was mowing the grass in the back yard. It was a cornfield before we bought it, and the grass was about 4 feet high. I was mowing along and all of a sudden a fawn jumped up in front of me and took off for the woods. I almost had to do a change of underwear.
Joe
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Growing up in Wisconsin in the 60s we had very few deer. One could go all year without seeing a single deer. Today even with heavy predation from coyotes, wolves and bears the populations of deer are very good.
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No sad deer situation here. We have lots of them, and they are all very happy!
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Just before sundown yesterday I heard a gunshot, then saw a doe running toward our east woods followed closely by a less than week old fawn.
That's the first fawn I've seen this year. 😊
Joe
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At one time our county has held the record for most corn produced per acre in the nation and we’ve got the deer that go along with that much food.
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I recently saw 7 deer moving upstream in the dry branch behind our house and we live in town.
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The only deer I ever killed was in July 1986. A six point buck came trotting out of a cornfield and turned to look at my headlight which was approaching him at 80 some miles an hour. I limped away from the wreck, cousin on back not so lucky, compound fracture. My Liberty Edition Sportster had 6000 miles on it.
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Many more deer here in the NC mountains than 20 years ago.
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No shortage in the NC flatlands
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Went for a short ride on our SxS and saw about 60 deer.
God bless our farmers for feeding these poor starving animals ( green font).
They are absolutely tearing up the freshly planted corn.
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^^ I chased 6 deer out of a single 15 acre soybean field this morning. We're talking about a $1000/acre crop so it doesn't take much nibbling to be expensive.
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