Hey. So I just had a few questions about bringing deer in. In roughly a month or so me and the wife will be moving from town to a country house. I'm very excited. There is roughly 3 acres or Grove land and another acre of prairie grass at the new place all surrounded by corn feilds. I know that isn't a super huge land but I plan to be hunting out there. I was wondering if anyone has any tips on how I could get deer to comin in and mabe stick around. There is already a natural pond out there so there will be Lil water source but is there anything else I could do that would help?
Think about adding cover. Sounds like you don't really need to add too much food since you already have the corn fields. It would take several years to be real effective, but I would look into planting a cedar grove near the corn field. This give the deer a safe place to get out of the weather. For the immediate future, you can use plot screens like Eqyptian Wheat or Sudan Grass to give them some good cover. Deer want 3 things. Food, water and cover.
Visual screen of EW and long term Norway spruce. Turn the prarie grass into a foodplot on Winter rye/rape/ptt. 2 acre norway spruce thermal bedding spaced 10 feet apart.This would all depend on what state you are in of course regarding exact varieties.
Sounds like the food portion is covered so I would look @ water & possibly a mineral site. IMHO. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I have a couple mineral blocks out there now... is there anything else to do mineral wise. I'm in Minnesota by the way
1) Mineral is illegal in Mn. inside any deer season. 2)You want thermal bedding(Spruce) and a different food source from corn. Winter rye/rape/ptt draws them from 10/1 thru 6/1. They are hammering the Ptt in frozen ground right now. http://www.lucky-buck.com/baitinglaws.html
The natural mineral rocks are illegal? I was told as long as it's not like the apple flavored or nothin like that it's fine.
Minerals are not illegal in MN. The law states "Liquid scents, sprays, salt and minerals are not bait if they do not contain liquid or solid food products."
Pure minerals are legal in MN. As long as there are no food components in the minerals you are fine. Plant a food plot with some late season food on it, such as winter rye, brassicas, turnips, something like that. Plant some kind of cover such as cedars or spruce. If you are surrounded by corn, your best bet is to establish some heavy cover, especially if there is not a lot of woods in the area.
keep in mind the corn is probably gonna be rotated every few years... when they do ... they'll most likely plant soy beans... and winter wheat ... I'd go with a small food plot with a variety.... I'd think of planting a tree line spruce/evergreen to limit the noise and activities from the backyard activities...
Sunflowers are hoovered by deer once they hit knee high. That's what the EW does till the Norways are up.
Fruit Trees... our apple trees usually get hit pretty hard by the deer ... but the Pear Tree gets devastated !! once those Pears get a little over ripe ... the deer must be able to smell them from the next county !
Being surrounded by food, I'd provide cover. Pines grow pretty fast, but I'd plant them very sparsely so as they get big sunlight can still reach the ground providing ground cover too.
