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Post by boonechaser on Jan 16, 2014 15:02:36 GMT -5
Watched North American Whitetail last night and Dr. james Kroll had a segment on doing a deer inventory on your property. We are going to attempt on my farm using 3 trailcam's 1-mineral lick 2-corn feeder 3-major travel coridor. My goal is to get a age structure of deer on my propery. EX. yearling's, 2-3 yr olds, and 4 yr olds and over. Has anyone attempted to do a inventory? and if so any suggestion's or tip's?? My property consist's of 150 rolling acres. Approx 100 acres woods and thickets and 50 acres hay fields and pasture with 10 acres being in deer food plots (Alfalfa,clover,corn,turnips/oats)
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Post by swilk on Jan 22, 2014 14:31:33 GMT -5
Let us know how that goes.
Took a stroll around my farm on Monday afternoon ... now that the river is down. It did not take long for the deer to move back in. In a short period of time we saw 20 some deer. A couple dozen turkeys. Ducks. A coyote.
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Post by swilk on Jan 22, 2014 14:34:53 GMT -5
And a opossum that had apparently committed suicide. Dangdest thing ... he was hanging about 2' off the ground in the y of a small sapling.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 22, 2014 14:49:03 GMT -5
And a opossum that had apparently committed suicide. Dangdest thing ... he was hanging about 2' off the ground in the y of a small sapling. Not strange at all - you stumbled across a food cache of a Knox County Bottoms Bigfoot...  |
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Post by swilk on Jan 22, 2014 14:56:16 GMT -5
Or maybe the bigfeets was using it as bait .... I coulda been killed.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 22, 2014 15:42:26 GMT -5
Or maybe the bigfeets was using it as bait .... I coulda been killed. True but... Bigfoots only eat black panthers... And timber rattlers ... That is why the DNR stocked them... To feed the ever growing population of bigfoots . If we could only get them to eat coyotes..... |
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Post by firstwd on Jan 22, 2014 16:00:43 GMT -5
Coyotes have too much gristle.
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Post by featherduster on Jan 22, 2014 16:11:02 GMT -5
Or maybe the bigfeets was using it as bait .... I coulda been killed. True but... Bigfoots only eat black panthers... And timber rattlers ... That is why the DNR stocked them... To feed the ever growing population of bigfoots . If we could only get them to eat coyotes..... |
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Post by M4Madness on Jan 22, 2014 16:24:50 GMT -5
I put out a single camera on a 250-acre farm every August, bait it with corn, and leave it out until the second week of September. I pretty much get every deer in the area on camera. Believe it or not, most are bucks of various ages. I pull the camera before season, then put it back out in January to see what survived the season. It is on the edge of a field next to a pond, so I can drive right to it to rebait and swap cards without spooking deer.
I put it out for a few days earlier this month and got 7 bucks on camera in two days' time. I'm a little concerned, since the two largest bucks remaining over there did not show back up on camera. My inventory this past summer included a 5.5, two 4.5, at least two 3.5, and a spattering of 2.5 and 1.5 year old bucks. I killed the 5.5, and the two 4.5's have gone MIA. I found a headless poached buck on that farm, and fear that it may have been one of the 4.5's.
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Post by airborne on Jan 23, 2014 16:34:07 GMT -5
I put out corn last year with a trail camera and it took forever for the deer to show up. Did get a lot of pictures of rabbits, one fox and an owl.
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Post by airborne on Jan 23, 2014 16:35:32 GMT -5
I put out corn last year with a trail camera and it took forever for the deer to show up. Did get a lot of pictures of rabbits, one fox and an owl. All from late Jan. until spring.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 23, 2014 17:06:09 GMT -5
I put out corn last year with a trail camera and it took forever for the deer to show up. Did get a lot of pictures of rabbits, one fox and an owl. All from late Jan. until spring. Sounds like the deer in your area had plenty to eat. |
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Post by airborne on Jan 23, 2014 18:18:39 GMT -5
I guess so. I enjoyed the other pictures. All wild life is fun to watch and get pictures of.
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Post by bowhunterjohn on Jan 23, 2014 21:04:41 GMT -5
And a opossum that had apparently committed suicide. Dangdest thing ... he was hanging about 2' off the ground in the y of a small sapling. could be a bobcat kill ? then again they ain't the smartest critters either LOL |
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Post by henson59 on Jan 24, 2014 9:42:49 GMT -5
I put out corn and a bag of record rack in two different locations on our property as soon as the season is over. I just pulled a card last weekend and it showed that less then 20 minutes after I put the feed out I had a group of does on the pile. They stayed for 2 hours!
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Post by swilk on Jan 24, 2014 9:58:19 GMT -5
And a opossum that had apparently committed suicide. Dangdest thing ... he was hanging about 2' off the ground in the y of a small sapling. could be a bobcat kill ? then again they ain't the smartest critters either LOL Other than a few drops of blood on the ground under him he wasnt visibly "hurt" in any way .... classic bigfeets trap. |
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Post by henson59 on Jan 24, 2014 16:25:37 GMT -5
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Post by boonechaser on Feb 1, 2014 15:50:12 GMT -5
Just pulled cards today and spent 1.5 hours viewing over 4000 pics. Good new's is we have plenty of deer and seem's to be a pretty good age mix. Feel good at thinking I have at leat 12 different button buck's visiting the corn feeder daily. Have 2 large antlerless group's of 14 and 12 that are also daily visitor's. A near by mineral lick is also getting plenty of attention. 600 pic's in 2 week's. A couple 1.5 yr old bucks that have dropped and again several button's have been hitting it regularily as a few does. Hav'nt gotten any buck's over 2.5 on camara yet, but am going to move camara's tomorrow to south end of farm and place over another mineral lick/oat's and wheat field and another camara over alalfa field. I am sure the older buck's are hanging out together as I have seen them a few time's. Just gotta figure out where they are spending their time and what food source they are hitting. I feel pretty comfortable at this point that I have somewhere between 40-50 deer using the north end of the farm food plot's/corn feeder and mineral lick. Am looking forward to seeing what's going on on the other end of the farm and am hoping to catch some larger buck's on cam.
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