Originally Posted by
sasquatchoslav
It's an interesting if not frustrating situation. ~3000 head on 18k acres the operation gets bigger every year. Hunting lease on 8k of that, but they don't care about the fawns we lose that's for us to take care of. The trappers do a big push rihgt b/f the calves drop for the ranchers, but the rest of the year they go wild and just crush the fawn population it's super frustrating. It's costs $200/day for a trapper and our lease is expensive enough already so we just do what we can when we are there. QDMA told us the best option is to do our own trap push right b/f the fawns drop and then hunt our butts off the rest of the year. Oddly no one has brought up a donkey or dog to patrol the land I will ask the main cowpoke what he thinks about that. I can't imagine stopping the coyote hunting will lead to less fawn loss, but if that's they case I'd love to see some data behind it on a property with solid professional deer management and if it works I'm sold. I don't know if they would allow us to bring our own animals in either that would be another conversation all together.
I see donkeys used a lot. Seems like every sheep / goat ranch I’ve seen a from East Texas to Central Texas. They work, although I’m not sure what the ratio is, if there is one. Sounds like I need to throw a couple guns in the truck and drive out to Fl.
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