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Re: Too Many Does
[Re: crenshawco]
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11/27/23 10:58 PM
11/27/23 10:58 PM
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Joined: Nov 2013
Posts: 2,635 Montgomery, AL
Forrestgump1
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Montgomery, AL
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What is planted in the plot? Why did they all of sudden start eating it? Looks like some sort of brassica. I’d be willing to bet he finally got a frost to turn them sweet and the deer found them.
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Re: Too Many Does
[Re: SEWoodsWhitetail]
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11/27/23 11:15 PM
11/27/23 11:15 PM
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,763 Awbarn, AL
CNC
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Dances With Weeds
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Small acreage food plots are not a good measuring stick in my opinion for determining if you have too many does……..How many other 5 acre fields are there around this one planted in the same thing??.....What if we have a 4,000 acre quail plantation and we plant a 5 acre soybean field in the middle of it??....Do the results really tell us anything about whether we have too many deer for the 4000 acres??...No, not really
Last edited by CNC; 11/27/23 11:16 PM.
We dont rent pigs
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Re: Too Many Does
[Re: SEWoodsWhitetail]
#4026764
11/27/23 11:57 PM
11/27/23 11:57 PM
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Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 4,851 AL
Gobble4me757
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12 point
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Posts: 4,851
AL
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Send em to my place…we don’t shoot any cause we don’t have that many. Works well for the rut
2017 Team Aldeer Turkey Contest Champion 2018 Team Aldeer Turkey Contest Champion
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Re: Too Many Does
[Re: CNC]
#4026839
11/28/23 08:39 AM
11/28/23 08:39 AM
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Joined: Jun 2022
Posts: 243 Northwest Alabama
SEWoodsWhitetail
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4 point
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Posts: 243
Northwest Alabama
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Small acreage food plots are not a good measuring stick in my opinion for determining if you have too many does……..How many other 5 acre fields are there around this one planted in the same thing??.....What if we have a 4,000 acre quail plantation and we plant a 5 acre soybean field in the middle of it??....Do the results really tell us anything about whether we have too many deer for the 4000 acres??...No, not really There’s probably another 7 acres of food plot on the same 130 acres.
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Re: Too Many Does
[Re: Remington270]
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11/28/23 11:05 AM
11/28/23 11:05 AM
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Joined: Jun 2022
Posts: 243 Northwest Alabama
SEWoodsWhitetail
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Is it bad to have a lot of does? The best deer hunting in the state is places with insane numbers of does.
Are the deer underweight or malnourished?
If given the choice, I’m always going to want to hunt places with higher than average deer numbers. I’ve spent too many years of my life seeing zero deer on deer hunts. It’s all about resource allocation. Currently I have more deer than I can comfortably support and skewed ratios. Just been lazy shooting does the last couple years. Fewer does will make for better hunting, especially during the rut.
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Re: Too Many Does
[Re: SEWoodsWhitetail]
#4026935
11/28/23 11:17 AM
11/28/23 11:17 AM
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Posts: 2,034 Mobile, AL
Mdees
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Do you have an exclusion cage for reference? Simple to build and anchor and gives a real good indication of what you are actually growing through the season. My primary plot at camp is only about 1/3ac and looked almost barren by the end of January except the cage which was 18-20” tall. Same plot. Thank you! That’s a much more telling picture. When I still had a club, and membership was down, some members would balk at the added expense of lime and such. Claiming that fields grew all the same regardless of pH. We started using exclusion cages to show what we were growing, absent the browse pressure, and even did a few test plots where we only limed half and put two cages out. The results ended those yearly arguments about the extra $100.
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Re: Too Many Does
[Re: SEWoodsWhitetail]
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11/28/23 11:21 AM
11/28/23 11:21 AM
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Posts: 2,298 Houston County
Hoytdad10
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Posts: 2,298
Houston County
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Do you have an exclusion cage for reference? Simple to build and anchor and gives a real good indication of what you are actually growing through the season. My primary plot at camp is only about 1/3ac and looked almost barren by the end of January except the cage which was 18-20” tall. Same plot. When was this pic taken? It looks to me to be a completely different time of year than the previous picture.
A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
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Re: Too Many Does
[Re: Hoytdad10]
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11/28/23 11:47 AM
11/28/23 11:47 AM
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Joined: Jun 2022
Posts: 243 Northwest Alabama
SEWoodsWhitetail
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4 point
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Northwest Alabama
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Do you have an exclusion cage for reference? Simple to build and anchor and gives a real good indication of what you are actually growing through the season. My primary plot at camp is only about 1/3ac and looked almost barren by the end of January except the cage which was 18-20” tall. Same plot. When was this pic taken? It looks to me to be a completely different time of year than the previous picture. It was taken near the end of summer. Spring planting
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Re: Too Many Does
[Re: Remington270]
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11/28/23 06:37 PM
11/28/23 06:37 PM
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,763 Awbarn, AL
CNC
Dances With Weeds
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Dances With Weeds
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,763
Awbarn, AL
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So anyone who's plots are eaten down have too many deer??? That’s the logic. I can’t wrap my head around it. There are places with sustainable deer populations that are really very high. Yep....its badly flawed logic
We dont rent pigs
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