Originally Posted by 000buck
I’ve never owned deer, but I’ve owned cattle for 25 years. I’ll continue to run a cow calf operation on normal grazing practices with herbicides and fertilizer. It’s worked pretty good for me so far.

But, for those that wanna do it other ways, I wish them the best, we all have our own ways in stuff.

Originally Posted by coldtrail
My uncle had many acres acres and few cows. He had about 30 cows running around 900 acres on the choctawhachee river at various times. He never bought hay, and made his own fence post out of white oak. Between cows, renting hunting rights and timber he did okay I reckon. A lot of people thought he was backwards in his management. He apparently was way ahead of his time. And the hunting was jam up.


Something I dont understand about the current situation is that if inputs are costing folks so much, etc......Then why dont they cut back on the amount of cows they're running and not have to feed hay??

Folks that know don't shoot old does........ wink