Six acres is plenty. We live on five acres and own 45 acres across the road. We see plenty of deer on the five acres, might be because we don’t shoot them on the five acre tract. We also don’t overdo it on the 45 acres.

If you have not done so I would urge you not to plant sawtooth oaks. Sawtooth oaks are invasive and the acorns are lower in nutritional value than native oaks. Sawtooths only produce acorns in the fall (Sep-Oct), native oaks will produce acorns throughout fall and winter when they are most beneficial. If I were going to plant oaks I would plant a mixture of native white and red.

I plan on planting a few white oaks but they aren’t going to produce for 50 years so I’d like to have something else dropping as well