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Post by Woody Williams on Jul 24, 2010 15:38:31 GMT -5
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Post by huxbux on Jul 24, 2010 16:23:13 GMT -5
Some years back I read an account in one of the hunting rags of a documented case in Maine where herded up deer were eating up winterkill fish. Must have been a very hard winter.
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Post by parson on Jul 24, 2010 16:24:10 GMT -5
Alien in disguise!
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Post by whiteoak on Jul 24, 2010 18:25:11 GMT -5
KY fried chicken food plot?  ? Instead of Biologic LOL |
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Post by drs on Jul 25, 2010 7:10:27 GMT -5
Not unusual. I've read biological articles that state, in the Spring, pregnant Doe especially, will seek out young rabbits, ground nesting birds and eat them, for protein requirements. Buck have been known to do this also.
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Post by tenring on Jul 25, 2010 8:09:11 GMT -5
Less deer, more rabbits, WIN!
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Post by drs on Jul 25, 2010 9:41:20 GMT -5
Less deer, more rabbits, WIN! Glad I am not the only one who agrees with this theory, concerning Deer/protein requirements. It DOES seem as the population of Deer grew the Rabbit population declined. Even in areas where farming pratices & preditation remained the same. |
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Post by tenring on Jul 25, 2010 9:44:31 GMT -5
Deer eating baby rabbits, who'd a thunk it?
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Post by drs on Jul 25, 2010 9:58:17 GMT -5
Deer eating baby rabbits, who'd a thunk it? It has & will continue to happen. |
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Post by Decatur on Jul 25, 2010 10:21:59 GMT -5
I think every animal has some carnivorous tendencies. I once saw a squirrel that sure looked like it was eating from a gut pile of another squirrel I had shot 15 minutes before. Maybe it was lazy and was just eating the pre-chewed "hickory nut butter" from the dead squirrels paunch? Either way, he died for his transgressions. ;d
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Post by trapperdave on Jul 25, 2010 10:24:47 GMT -5
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Post by drs on Jul 25, 2010 12:20:20 GMT -5
I think every animal has some carnivorous tendencies. I once saw a squirrel that sure looked like it was eating from a gut pile of another squirrel I had shot 15 minutes before. Maybe it was lazy and was just eating the pre-chewed "hickory nut butter" from the dead squirrels paunch? Either way, he died for his transgressions. ;d All Squirrels will eat meat. They especially like young Birds in the nest. I saw a Fox Squirrel trying to grab a young bird out of the nest once. The Mother fought him off. |
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Post by parson on Jul 25, 2010 12:30:47 GMT -5
You know that they are wondering what we taste like! Do we really want bigger bucks if they're going carnivore? Be afraid! Be v-e-r-y afraid! Another argument in favor of bigger caliber rifles! |
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Post by Decatur on Jul 25, 2010 13:56:24 GMT -5
;d
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Post by HighCotton on Jul 25, 2010 18:40:33 GMT -5
It's definitely odd to see a deer act like a carnivore but I saw a few instances very similar on our dairy farm. For instance, we had a calf that ate a mouse after stepping on it and I saw a few other unmentionable cases with some hogs. The FDA has tried to regulate feed ingredients in livestock feeds in recent years. However, most people would be shocked to know how much blood meal, bone meal, meat meal and chicken "litter" go into livestock feed. For decades, these were considered the primary feed ingredients just after corn and soybean meal. As a matter of fact, in the 1970's some neighboring dairymen experimented with feeding plastic pellets, shredded cardboard, and chopped rope and twine from a nearby factory as roughage. Strange what some herbivores and ruminants will eat!
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Post by Decatur on Jul 25, 2010 22:11:18 GMT -5
Hogs will eat ANYTHING! They used to fight over the sparrows we shot out of our neighbors barn, my brother got in trouble for feeding the same hogs plastic spoons once at a cookout, and boxes of clay pigeons have a warning on the box not to let hogs eat the pigeons. They are, quite frankly, HOGS! ;D
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Post by tenring on Jul 26, 2010 6:08:29 GMT -5
As a very young lad, I was once asked by a farmer to help carry out a still born calf. Across the barn lot we went, and tossed it over a fence into a hog lot, gives me the "willies" to this day just thinking about it.
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Post by drs on Jul 26, 2010 6:50:14 GMT -5
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Post by tenring on Jul 26, 2010 7:23:47 GMT -5
Did read an article in the paper years ago, when a farm wife went to check on her husband who was late for a meal, found him in the hog lot, partially eaten. Seems he had a heart attack and died while feeding the hogs. Not a pretty sight.
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Post by tickman1961 on Jul 26, 2010 10:29:24 GMT -5
There has been a study going on for years concerning deer and the transmission of TB thru them eating dead animals. Not that uncommon.
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