Strip grazing during the Rut ?

[Stocker Steve]

I have a lot of issues with deer taking out both temporary or permanent single strand fences during the rut. Temporary tends to get knocked down and dragged, permanent high tensile tends to lose several insulators so it is laying on the "ground". Any tips on reducing this ?

 

[Aaron]

#1 Blue flag tape tied to the wire.
#2 Kill more deer. My problems have went way down the last few years with winter kill and heavy hunting pressure. But make sure your eliminating does, not just bucks. On one single 160 acre property the last number of years, the hunters went from 16 kills, to 11, to 4 and just 2 so far this year. Over 1/2 the kills each year are does. My terms are if they focus on bucks only, they get the boot. Reduction of the herd is my #1 priority, not making sure some guy has a monster buck story to tell his buddies. The guys who have been here for a number of years follow my rules and as such, I try to make sure they have a good time each season.

 

[dun]

We cheat and move the cows and heifers to fields that are bounded by barbed wire rather then hot. Then about the time the season opens I put the fences back up and go back to normal hotwire

 

[Stocker Steve]

I have some skill in controlling deer populations, but two neighbors think they are above others since they become no doe trophy only hunters. This means most of "their" deer graze my improved pastures.

Going barbed in an option, but usually late October and early November are when we strip graze fields.

Why the color blue?

 

[Aaron]

I have some skill in controlling deer populations, but two neighbors think they are above others since they become no doe trophy only hunters. This means most of "their" deer graze my improved pastures.

Going barbed in an option, but usually late October and early November are when we strip graze fields.

Why the color blue?

Deer are like cows and can't distinguish red/orange, but see blue very well. And not too many things in the pasture are blue, so stands out like sore thumb. Insulator and poly wire manufacturers should be making their products blue.

 

[dun]

I have some skill in controlling deer populations, but two neighbors think they are above others since they become no doe trophy only hunters. This means most of "their" deer graze my improved pastures.

Going barbed in an option, but usually late October and early November are when we strip graze fields.

Why the color blue?

The first 2 weeks in november is when the chase part of the rut is on. We have just those 2 small fields that are bounded by barbed and we leave them just for the running through the hotwire time of the year. It also gets the cows way from the perimeter fences so they won;t get accidently shot.

 

[hillbilly beef man]

When I put up my temp fence I put peanut butter on some tin foil and put it on the electric fence where the deer normally cross the hay fields. This seems to help get the deer shocked enough to respect the fence.

 

[Bigfoot]

I actually gave up on electric fence because of deer. I wish I had been smart enough to think of the peanut butter, and tin foil trick.

 

[Stocker Steve]

When I put up my temp fence I put peanut butter on some tin foil and put it on the electric fence where the deer normally cross the hay fields. This seems to help get the deer shocked enough to respect the fence.

Short on tin foil but some use beer cans here. Deer must like the malty scent. ;-)

 

[dun]

I actually gave up on electric fence because of deer. I wish I had been smart enough to think of the peanut butter, and tin foil trick.

It really doesn;t matter if they know where they areor not. When a buck is hot on a does tail and she is running away she isn;t going to take time to jump, she'll just plow right through it. Watchd it happen too many times. But around here it's only a week or so, so it's just the way things are. Neighbor was driving down the road and had a doe run into thr side of his truck, she had a buck hout on her butt.