Wife would not let me leave the house today

[Backwoods Savage]

Around here having a salt lick out for wild life would land someone
in trouble with the Game Wardens.

They did outlaw it around here for a time as they did all baiting or feeding. They have eased up on that now.

 

[charly]

At first it is the scent then they quickly associate the sound of the saws to food.

Ahhhhhhhh,,,,, mother nature's wisdom!

 

[stoveguy2esw]

love the thread title, however my wife wont let me stay home

 

[Adios Pantalones]

Correction. Feeding wildlife can be trouble but not always. As for the turkeys, they are the dumbest bird out there. They really can do dumb things. And pecking at its own reflection? Just watch cardinals. They are really good at that.

Maybe not always, but it's pretty hard to predict, IMO. Habituation is a huge issue- a few people in this thread are talking about it already. Grouping at feed also increases disease transmission, food dependence and other issues.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

For sure blindly feeding and not knowing what you are doing can have drastic effects and that is why most frown upon it and rightly so. Being raised around animals and knowing what can happen helps but today there are few who can say that.

Once again today we had a half dozen bed near the house. Wife had to go to town so when she backed the car out they left. Strange though because one day she was outside and the UPS man came. The deer laid there and looked all the time. He was amazed but no, he can not hunt here.

 

[Realstone]

A few deer are fine, but when it gets to a point where you are tempting fate to drive a dusk/dawn then it is time to cut back the herd.

With most of the wolves gone, the deer population has exploded.

 

[stanleyjohn]

Cool!! Look what we had hanging around all summer.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

Stanleyjohn, we have to declare war on those every summer too. It is amazing how many we have. To top it off, folks from the city or villages live trap them and turn them loose out in the country where, "they won't do any harm." Ha! Ever see a corn field after coons find it? One neighbor got rid of over 20 of them one summer and then his neighbor (renter) called him a couple afternoons later and said there were something like 24 of them in the yard right then. Way too many of them now and they are pests that can do a lot of damage.

 

[stanleyjohn]

Guess im a sucker for animals! They showed up one evening after my wife threw some bread into the yard!They started to come every evening after that for a few weeks till the bread ran out .One evening it looked like a wildlife party going on outside! 5 racoons 1 fox, qnd 1 deer all eating the bread my wife thew out.Most of my veggee garden damage comes from,rabbits and chimpmunks.

 

[MishMouse]

With most of the wolves gone, the deer population has exploded.

With all the deer around my house and the damage they due to the garden not to mention the number of deer car accidents in my area, add to that the limited deer hunt this year and the fact that MN now has a wolf hunt the deer population here is going to increase exp. That is until wasting disease wipes out most of them along with the cattle.

 

[Backwoods Savage]

With all the deer around my house and the damage they due to the garden not to mention the number of deer car accidents in my area, add to that the limited deer hunt this year and the fact that MN now has a wolf hunt the deer population here is going to increase exp. That is until wasting disease wipes out most of them along with the cattle.

Don't think so.