Deer/Plot Management
Deer/Plot Management will be articles and information to help you better understand how to prepare and manage your land.
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
NATURAL MORTALITY
High Natural Mortality
Is killing all spikes that bad, even if it represents an average of 40 percent, and as much as 63 percent of the bucks in that age class during any given year? It very well could be because so far we have only been talking about spikes that are killed by hunters. What about yearling bucks that die of natural causes?
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Monday, March 12, 2012
Successful Warm Season Food Plots - Part II
Last week we discussed the importance of having warm season food plots in your management program; and determining which plot size is best to support your deer herd. Today we’ll focus on what to plant, where to plant and preparing your soil.
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Wednesday, March 07, 2012
Late Winter Turkey Management on Your Deer Hunting Property
The wild turkey, in general, is wildlife conservation’s Cinderella story of the twentieth century. Wildlife management had its meager beginnings during the middle years of the century when wild turkey populations plummeted to the verge of extinction in the 1940’s. Thanks to legions of sportsmen across the country who saw the wild turkey being lost forever, wild turkey numbers now are at an all time high. Every state in the United States, except Alaska, has huntable turkey populations. Mexico and parts of southern Canada all have wild turkey available to hunt.
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Monday, March 05, 2012
Successful Warm Season Food Plots - Part I
Interest in Wildlife Management and Quality Deer Management are at an all-time high with the hunting public and land managers across the nation. Growing more and bigger deer are the main goals of many of the customers we encounter at Tecomate Wildlife Systems. Given this increase in the interest of food plot management by hunters and the tremendous increase in available information on the subject it is really surprising how many food plot management programs consist only of scratching in a few bags of cool season cereal grains with some 10-10-10 fertilizer on a few openings in the early fall.
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Monday, January 16, 2012
Seasonal Nutritional Needs of the Whitetail
In order to formulate a nutritional strategy (plan) for whitetails, it is necessary to know their seasonal nutritional needs. Biologists and scientists can get into tedious detail on this subject, but from the game manager’s standpoint, it’s really quite simple.
From a timing standpoint, bucks and does have quite similar nutritional needs, but for very different reasons. Basically, they both have two distinct periods with specific nutritional requirements – during one period, they require protein; during the other, carbohydrates. Generally, when bucks have the highest need for protein, so do does.
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Increasing Your Successfulness in Harvesting a Mature Buck on a Small Property
Reality. Life. Whatever you want to call it, it has definitely found its way into my world this year. Up until this year I have always had a work schedule that was flexible enough that I could take off when ever I wanted to spend in the woods. This flexible work schedule has allowed me to hunt more than the average Joe, therefore giving me the opportunity to be more successful as well. This year, however, has been a different story. With the Lord’s leadership, my wife (Emily) and I decided for her to stay at home with our now 20 month old daughter, Anna Grace. This decision meant having to work more and hunt less in order to make ends meet.
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Monday, January 02, 2012
The Nuts and Bolts oF Food-Source Managament
Simple is always best. And as we look at the nuts and bolts of food-source management, I hope and believe that you’ll think the whole thing is simple, perhaps even obvious. If so, then it’s got a chance of flying when you take the concept to the field. I really think the beauty of the strategy lies in its simplicity and logic. Well, let’s now get right into the heart of food-source management – its nutritional side. The goal here is to explain how and why it works and layout the seasonal nutritional needs of the whitetail so the whole thing makes complete sense.
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Monday, December 19, 2011
Keys to Planting & Growing Quality Food Plots
Food plots are like many other things in life – you get out of them what you put into them. True, you can haphazardly scratch out a food plot and attract a few deer, but for really good plots, the kind that both attracts deer and provides nutrition, you’ve got to do it right. To help with that, we offer “8 Keys To Quality Food Plots.”
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