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Symbiosis – when the deer that ate your beans all summer is now going to feed you this winter.

To keep it on topic, here are photos of my tractors. The SA with fast-hitch carry-all came in handy retrieving this big doe from the field where she was shot in the heart with a broadhead at about 16 yards. She ran about 20 yards before dropping dead. Her fawn, that just recently lost its spots, is probably still running!


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Congrats, I hope to start getting some in the freezer next month.
Nice carry all on your tractor. I have one in the back of the barn and need to drag it out. When I built it the only tractor we had running was the Jubilee and it was too heavy for it. Now that we have bigger tractors it could be of some use.
 
Your comment about the fawn kinda got me on the wrong side of this thread. In the 45 years I've been deer hunting, I've only struck out 5 times. And I've never shot a doe, even though I could have any of those 5 times. They're the ones who reproduce and keep the herd populated.

Right now, our local herd is building back up from a fever that hit the herd hard several years ago. Even though my permit for this year's rifle season allows a doe, I have no intentions of taking one.
 

Yeah. The carry all comes in pretty handy. It's made from bed frame rails that I found in the "free" pile at a garage sale and works fine for most stuff I need it for. I've probably never put more than 300-400 lbs on it. I use the SA for gardening, so I can have the carry all and the cultivators on at the same time. I have the fast-hitch disc too, so the carry all comes off once or twice a year when I disc my garden.
 

We'll have to agree to disagree. I am of the opposite opinion. Here we have too many deer that cause a lot of damage. There was one struck on the road near my house yesterday morning. I feel removing the does is the most effective population control. I don't want to wipe them out of course, but I'd like to see fewer of them in my fruit trees and garden!
 
you have to keep the herd thinned out so disease doesn't get them so bad. I figure the does I shoot would get hit by a car anyway.
 

I hung it that way to skin it. The head and guts were removed before hanging. After I skinned it I took it down and took the carcass to the processor. Too warm here to leave it hanging around for very long. It did hang over night packed with ice. That's why it is wrapped in plastic wrap in the photo.
 
I have never hung one over night but then again I have not seen many if any years where it was cold enough to do so. We also do all the processing right here on the farm. That way they do not even leave the place. I have a refrigerator in my shop that cools down to freezing and we use it for deer every year
 
You must not have too many deer in your area! They destroyed part of our garden fence this year, if I get a good chance at a big doe this year I'm taking her! My wife forgot to close the gate once and they got a taste of ripe tomatoes, once we shut the gate it looks like one got tangled in the fence and tore the hell out of it getting loose. At least it wasn't hanging there dead like the one in the cemetery fence a few years ago, that was a mess!
 
When it comes to deer no tractor picture is required - good enough to know another one is not eating up crops and my garden and getting hit by my truck.
 
Yes, around me they are way out of hand. Was nothing to set all day on opening day and see 50-100 deer some years when I used to hunt. Dad says it's still the same. See 10-20 in every field every night
 
Hey Goose, the reality is if you don't shoot them, then nature will. Here in Pa public pressure on the game commission has allowed the herd to build to unsustainable numbers. Now CTE and chronic wasting disease is culling them out. Two neighbors have found 19 and four dead deer last week on their properties.
 
(quoted from post at 18:07:07 10/26/17) Yes, around me they are way out of hand. Was nothing to set all day on opening day and see 50-100 deer some years when I used to hunt. Dad says it's still the same. See 10-20 in every field every night
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Same here. Folks come out here and on opening day, there's LOTS of shots. Sunday there will be a few. By Monday, most everyone is heading home. By Tuesday, the deer are back in the fields, clustering in groups of 20, 30, 40, and sometimes more!!

Just a few years back, we had that CWD going on here. Before that had run its course, the state decided to severely cut the number of tags from 6 to 2. So I would imagine we'll be seeing CWD around us for a long time into the future.
 
We have had over 100 cases of CWD documented in KS. Most cases are up in the northwest portion of the state, so it may be more prevalent in the mule deer than the white-tailed. I'm south of Wichita and, to my knowledge, there have been no cases around my area yet. Hope it stays that way. I think it is clear that thinning the herd, typically leads to a stronger, healthier herd.
 
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