Well after searching for a doe that was gut shot. I have figured out why the movement on my property has been sporadic after seeing numerous bait piles on adjoining land I have permission to access for recovering game. I have decided to combat this with a lot of hard work and patience. I plan on planting dunstan chesnut,persimmon,apple and pear trees. Thinking of dealing with stark brothers? Any thoughts or suggestions would be great. I already have on my property White oak,hickory and beech. The hickory and beech did not really produce well this year so I am assuming next year should be good (I hope) I will be fertilizing most hard mast bearing trees this spring.
Get you some saw tooth oaks and plant them. It will take about 10 years, but they will produce acorns faster than any oak I have seen. Did you find the doe?
No we never found her. My buddy shot her with low light conditions. Let her sit for a good 3 hours before going out to take a look at the blood trail before the rain had washed it out. We wanted to get a good idea of the direction she was heading so we could look in the morning. I headed out early and did a big sweep with no luck.
While this may be true... I'd advise against sawtooths. They aren't a native species so it's not really great for the habitat. And on top of that, the deer don't eat them nearly as much as white oaks. A student at my college actually did a study on this and it showed deer preferred white oaks 100-1 compared to sawtooths. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Trees are a long term investment 5 to 10 years. I planted six foot tall barlett pears and they started dropping fruit in 3 years. They need and prefer full sun light. You will get faster results by planting clover and legumes if you have the land to do so. I know thats an obvious statement but its hard to combat a bag of corn if acorns are sparse.
thanks for the replies. well its not just combating the bags of corn. im also trying to combat a neighbor that is doing everything possible to destroy the movement on my property. all summer the geese have been in his fields. with no worries about it from him. now all of the sudden he feels the need to run his utility vehicle through the fields at sunset to rid the geese??? placed a mountain of dirt over a entrance to a field that the deer would use a run on my property to enter said field. Tells me when i first move in that i should completely thin my woods!?? Now he just recently tells me i should put a pond in the front of my property. why you ask??? because its just so coincidentally happens to be a heavy bedding area. oh and lets not forget him telling me you don't need to hunt the wind or do any form of scent control. must have thought i had no clue as to what i was doing!
