Survey/Deer Density

[Encinal]

I remember last year you said either they don’t like the feed or the numbers were way off.
You still consider that to be a possibility?

Either that or I'm misunderstanding the constants...

I run a deer to 7-8 acres... and they eat 144 lbs per acre/year pretty consistently... not counting cottonseed.

So if you are running 1/3 the deer... at a deer to 20... you would think that it would resemble something near 48lbs/acre (assuming feeder density is the same and not counting that deer density may change %of deer feed in diet)

So what does that come out to?

edit: 3600 acres... 244 deer

3600x48 is 86 tons.

You're feeding 20...

We have a feed station about every 160 acres.

You have one every 400.

Divide 86/2.5 and its 34.4 tons.... that explains the discrepancy.

we are deliverying about ~2.3lb/deer/day to our deer.

You are delivering .8lb/deer/day to yours. (using 35 tons) Using 20 tons its much less.

[Chuckfu]

Either that or I'm misunderstanding the constants...

I run a deer to 7-8 acres... and they eat 144 lbs per acre/year pretty consistently... not counting cottonseed.

So if you are running 1/3 the deer... at a deer to 20... you would think that it would resemble something near 48lbs/acre (assuming feeder density is the same and not counting that deer density may change %of deer feed in diet)

So what does that come out to?

edit: 3600 acres... 244 deer

3600x48 is 86 tons.




You're feeding 20...

We have a feed station about every 160 acres.

You have one every 400.

Divide 86/2.5 and its 34.4 tons.... that explains the discrepancy.

we are deliverying about ~2.3lb/deer/day to our deer.

You are delivering .8lb/deer/day to yours. (using 35 tons) Using 20 tons its much less.

We don’t feed cottonseed either. I think we should start.
We did luck out and got about 2-2.5” of rain across the ranch.

[Chuckfu]

I asked our biologist last year about our carrying capacity with respect to the actual brush inside the fence. I asked because we about 1000 acres that is mostly pasture land. He said that land would produce as much food as the dense brush. That surprised me. Even if it has food the deer never go out there to eat it I guess is the argument I should’ve made.