I got the opportunity, and pleasure, to assist Chase Carter's crew this past weekend at the ranches up-start breeding program.
We handled 79 deer (performing, tagging , tattooing, DNS samples, and deworm/vaccination), and had a fawn crop of 40 fawns...
We lost 4 fawns during the process - 3 from overheating is what I heard being repeated..and one from injury caused by it running directly into a wall at full speed.
I understand there is an expected "acceptable" loss during this process , based on how stressed they get during the process - regardless of how stress free you try to make it.
Wonder if there is a industry standard number based on the process for loss..
For a first run through the facility it went pretty smoothly once we learned what we needed to do in the processes.
Mr.Carter and his crew run like a machine... pretty cool stuff - learned a bunch.
We handled 79 deer (performing, tagging , tattooing, DNS samples, and deworm/vaccination), and had a fawn crop of 40 fawns...
We lost 4 fawns during the process - 3 from overheating is what I heard being repeated..and one from injury caused by it running directly into a wall at full speed.
I understand there is an expected "acceptable" loss during this process , based on how stressed they get during the process - regardless of how stress free you try to make it.
Wonder if there is a industry standard number based on the process for loss..
For a first run through the facility it went pretty smoothly once we learned what we needed to do in the processes.
Mr.Carter and his crew run like a machine... pretty cool stuff - learned a bunch.
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