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Hi, welcome to my BLOG. Since I don’t know a whole lot about what’s supposed to be on a BLOG, I’m just going to talk to you in plain terms … like I would if we were sharing a hunting camp. Of course, we’ll mostly be talking hunting, and I’ll try to keep up you updated on what’s going on with The Bucks of Tecomate TV show.
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Revolutionary New Era in Whitetail Management Is Here! - Part III
Part III - THE PRINCIPLES BEHIND THE CONCEPT
Now, we’re going to get down to some of the nuts and bolts of nutritional side of food source management. We’re going to explain how and why it works, layout the seasonal nutritional needs of the whitetail and then outline a nutritional strategy to meet those needs.
How and Why Food Source Management Works
We need to start with some assumptions. First, a deer eats about 8 to 10 pounds of food a day. We’ll use an average of nine pounds. If you multiply nine pounds times the number of days in a year (365), that’ll give you the annual average food consumption for one deer, which we’ll round off to 3000 pounds. Now, let’s assume that the natural habitat can grow about 300 pounds of good deer food per acre over the course of a year, which is realistic for much of the South and East. Studies have shown that deer can eat only about half of the available food without seriously damaging the habitat.
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Monday, September 01, 2008
Revolutionary New Era in Whitetail Management Is Here! - Part II
Part II - A NEW FRONTIER IN DEER MANAGEMENT
Let’s now lay out the Tecomate Management Strategy and discuss its various aspects. Here’s the program in a nutshell: Provide attractive, highly nutritious, concentrated food sources, preferably through year-round agricultural plantings, for the purpose of increasing deer numbers and size and holding the deer in a relatively confined area. Then, implement a harvest strategy that maintains the deer density within carrying capacity to allow for maximum body and antler size and peak reproduction and that promotes a low buck/doe ratio and a good buck age structure.
This management strategy revolves around three distinct aspects – nutrition, herd balance and people. Let’s look at each.
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Friday, August 01, 2008
Revolutionary New Era in Whitetail Management Is Here! - Part I
Part I – THE WHITETAIL REVOLUTION BEGINS … BORN OF NECESSITY
What if I told you a management strategy existed that could allow you to increase the number of deer on your property two or threefold, maybe more? What if I told you that same strategy could also increase your buck size to that of the best the area could produce? Then, what if told you that your “more and bigger” deer could be contained within a relatively small area, perhaps seldom or never to leave your property? And then, finally, I told you that you could do all that while actually improving, yes, improving, the quality of your native habitat to the benefit of all wildlife, game and non-game species alike!
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