The Sandbox

[Bowsnbucks]

^^^^ See Art - there's your problem. You're thinking and seeing evidence ...……….. and MAKING SENSE !! Those critters bed in and close to those evergreens - and not out in the grass - for a reason. Hard to notice those things by agency office folks polishing the seats of their pants.

 

[sandbur]

^^^^ See Art - there's your problem. You're thinking and seeing evidence ...……….. and MAKING SENSE !! Those critters bed in and close to those evergreens - and not out in the grass - for a reason. Hard to notice those things by agency office folks polishing the seats of their pants.

Are you saying that sitting in a glass tower and counting paper Deer ain’t working?

Doesn’t matter as we now have a wild deer with cwd within about 50 miles.


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[sandbur]

A deer visited our bird feeder and spilled some sunflower seeds. The cardinals and other birds like it.

I believe the legal answer is the feeder is five feet above the ground and the snow is very deep.

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[sandbur]

Deer have been looking for leftovers under this flowering crab.

And under the chestnut crab and other apple trees, but they have completely ignored my leftover piles from making cider which are 1/4 mile away alongside an alfalfa field.

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[BuckSutherland]

How deep is the snow by you? Do you think the deer are in any trouble with how bad winter has gotten? Its nearly waist deep up by my land with plenty more and the way and now end in sight.

The dog doesnt seem to mind. I see you have most of your trees caged. I am thinking of getting a few rolls of that wire to start caging the trees on my land. How many feet of that wire to make one cage? 10 feet?

 

[Bowsnbucks]

^^^ Odd that they haven't cleaned up your apple pumice. Here, they'd be fighting over it.

Sorry to hear about the CWD there. We have it here within 20 minutes of my home. PGC has areas marked out for post-mortems & has issued warnings about deer taken in those areas.

The shriveled crab apples on the Profusion crab in our yard are drawing flocks of birds now - robins in particular. Late winter feast for migrating birds. Time for the cedar waxwings to show up.

And yep - folks sitting in glass towers don't have a very good view of things like other people walking the terrain and seeing actual signs like tracks, etc. Our Game Commission told us we were overrun with deer, despite me walking miles on snow and not cutting a track. - - - Pants polishers at meetings / dinners / on TV ……………

 

[sandbur]

^^^ Odd that they haven't cleaned up your apple pumice. Here, they'd be fighting over it.

Sorry to hear about the CWD there. We have it here within 20 minutes of my home. PGC has areas marked out for post-mortems & has issued warnings about deer taken in those areas.

The shriveled crab apples on the Profusion crab in our yard are drawing flocks of birds now - robins in particular. Late winter feast for migrating birds. Time for the cedar waxwings to show up.

And yep - folks sitting in glass towers don't have a very good view of things like other people walking the terrain and seeing actual signs like tracks, etc. Our Game Commission told us we were overrun with deer, despite me walking miles on snow and not cutting a track. - - - Pants polishers at meetings / dinners / on TV ……………

I think we inherited some of your managers. A few did move on.


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[sandbur]

How deep is the snow by you? Do you think the deer are in any trouble with how bad winter has gotten? Its nearly waist deep up by my land with plenty more and the way and now end in sight.

The dog doesnt seem to mind. I see you have most of your trees caged. I am thinking of getting a few rolls of that wire to start caging the trees on my land. How many feet of that wire to make one cage? 10 feet?

I bought a roll of cement wire last night at Menards. It was about 3$ less than the sale price. I have no idea why. I make 10 cages out of the 150 foot roll.

We have about 12-15 inches of snow where I live. There is more snow to the west and north.

I have not been up in deer zone 172, but more snow there, I know.

I heard 36 inches nw of Bemidji. About the same in areas to the south.

At least six deer in the corn by my house tonight.


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[BuckSutherland]

I just looked at Menards website on sale for $87. I should go and pick some up. I wanna cage some white pines and other trees I plant next spring. I think I will make the cages much smaller than yours.

 

[Bill]

Hold out hope. CWD has been about 60 miles from me for three years. Nothing in our county yet. But it’s coming.:(

 

[sandbur]

I just looked at Menards website on sale for $87. I should go and pick some up. I wanna cage some white pines and other trees I plant next spring. I think I will make the cages much smaller than yours.

The fifteen foot cages are for apple trees.

I think your white pine cages could be smaller.


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[homerj]

Deer can stick their heads through cement wire cages and nip whatever is inside. If a guy wants to protect young white pines with small cages, you'd be better off with welded wire that has much smaller openings.

 

[cavey]

I saw it mentioned before by someone else, one trick for the smaller dia. tree cages using concrete wire is to take some old chicken wire and wrap the cage at browse level. I have tons of old 2' chicken wire that I can burn up.

 

[sandbur]

Deer were digging for grass alongside the driveway last night.

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[sandbur]

I must have the only corn left in five or six sections.

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[Mortenson]

How many acres do you leave for them? Will there be enough grain left to harvest it this spring? Or will you chop it down? It's nice that you do that.

 

[scott44]

There are a couple fields north of me that they couldn't get all the corn off because it was too wet. My wife and I drove by there this last week and there were at least 100 deer in these fields.

 

[cavey]

As of this last snow storm.... Out at the farm I had to walk into my property from the road. I got my skid steer stuck in the middle of my driveway, climbed over a snow bank only to find the snow deeper on the other side - waist deep all the way to the edge of the yard where I snapped sticks and branches off and waded back to the skid steer - used the sticks under the tires to get some added traction - got belly hung with tires spinning on the ice underneath. I have endless piles of snow as high as I can dump with the skid steer. I have no idea how the wildlife is going to survive this around here - its going to put a big hurt on the deer population I have to believe in some areas they are just locked down unless they can get to a road... once the snow hardens up enough to support the coyotes they will have a feast.

I have a 15' plus drift coming off the end of one of my pole sheds and it took me hours just to make a dent in the driveway just to get back down to my truck. Its ugly out there - and .... my sled is sitting in my shed with 0 miles on it this year, best snow we have ever had for that. Your area deer will be grateful for that standing corn!

 

[Bowsnbucks]

Bur - You're keeping them fed all winter, you have great cover there …………. just ease them over to spring & summer greens in a couple months. They know where they have it good and the living is easy !! Tracks in the snow tell the tale.

 

[sandbur]

How many acres do you leave for them? Will there be enough grain left to harvest it this spring? Or will you chop it down? It's nice that you do that.

About 4.5 acres. Some years I leave the middle part stand for another year.


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