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re: Best way to feed deer.
Posted on 3/9/24 at 10:59 pm to ALrabbitKilla
Posted on 3/9/24 at 10:59 pm to ALrabbitKilla
The best way is the answer people don’t want to hear for some reason
Timber Stand Improvement TSI
Food plots can only feed so much. And they come with their own issues.
Remove the right trees, burn and keep in a schedule allowing light to hit the ground and you’ll eventually have a forest full of fat deer with plenty of places to bed and hide their young.
TLDR: cut down trees and burn. Forage produces 100x more food sources
Timber Stand Improvement TSI
Food plots can only feed so much. And they come with their own issues.
Remove the right trees, burn and keep in a schedule allowing light to hit the ground and you’ll eventually have a forest full of fat deer with plenty of places to bed and hide their young.
TLDR: cut down trees and burn. Forage produces 100x more food sources
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Posted on 3/9/24 at 11:40 pm to The Levee
“TSI”
That is a very good way to have a quality deer herd if one owns a fairly large piece of property.Problem is majority of people are forced to join leases,most cases it’s from a timber company.Others hunt WMA’s.
Timber company isn’t going to let their lessees practice any type of TSI.
Many of them have gotten away from burning,it’s mostly spraying herbicides,which isn’t great for forb production.
Leases I’ve been on did allow some food plots but that was limited.
In my case I own about 150 acres and it was as a sacrifice to pay for it and to pay for tree planting.I didn’t have deep enough pockets to manage it strictly for deer.I more or less felt obligated to try and recoup my investment.I was hoping to make some money for retirement income,that hasn’t happened but at this point I’ve about broken even.
I do some TSI and burning but it’s also food plots and corn feeders.
That is a very good way to have a quality deer herd if one owns a fairly large piece of property.Problem is majority of people are forced to join leases,most cases it’s from a timber company.Others hunt WMA’s.
Timber company isn’t going to let their lessees practice any type of TSI.
Many of them have gotten away from burning,it’s mostly spraying herbicides,which isn’t great for forb production.
Leases I’ve been on did allow some food plots but that was limited.
In my case I own about 150 acres and it was as a sacrifice to pay for it and to pay for tree planting.I didn’t have deep enough pockets to manage it strictly for deer.I more or less felt obligated to try and recoup my investment.I was hoping to make some money for retirement income,that hasn’t happened but at this point I’ve about broken even.
I do some TSI and burning but it’s also food plots and corn feeders.
Posted on 3/10/24 at 4:35 pm to The Levee
Best answer I’ve read
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