Feeder 2 installed

**Ketchn** · 08-16-2018, 05:36 AM

Couldn't leave those plastic 100 bux a pc or less feeders out there . Just don't do the place justice . So I built my second one and installed it last weekend . Pulled the cards on the cameras and was pleased to see the same bucks hitting a goat and sheep block I put out in the absence of a decent feeder at location number 2 .
Found several of the dozen or so pecan trees with a load on them as well and of course we smiled over that to. Planted a chaste tree ...otherwise known as a butterfly bush and hung up a woodpecker feeder in one pecan tree .
and yes the grasshoppers are eating the pecan tree leaves right off the trees , note chew marks all over the leaves .
grasshoppers seem bad every time there is a drought scenario .the good news is the lil and mom ketched em and put them in a special cage as the lil decided she wanted them for pets. I told her ok but in a few days they are chicken food

observation at ground level revealed lots of droppings and a big ole spiny lizard along with some cactus fruit and a few flowering something or other plants .
hope you enjoy the photos and no they are not in any particular order ...lol
and yes we are breaking our lil ole piggy bank

**jackie53** · 08-16-2018, 07:12 AM

Thanks I See Vinson stew in your Future.Maybe a little Sausage!!

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**Yaker** · 08-16-2018, 11:50 AM

Nice, in my region,those are certainly shooter bucks.I hope you don't have any Texas bears,those feeders would be easy pikins.

**Ketchn** · 08-17-2018, 06:38 AM

Originally Posted by Yaker

Nice, in my region,those are certainly shooter bucks.I hope you don't have any Texas bears,those feeders would be easy pikins.

No bears in that area , but to be sure hogs get big and crazy cows and they are heck on feeders .
Those are pretty tough set ups though as I have been doing this a while and had lots of things tore up over the years .
I typically run them higher than that but as I age I don’t like up so high on the ladder to fill them ...lol

**Ketchn** · 08-17-2018, 06:46 AM

As far as shooters , 2 are pretty ok , looks like one of them with the high rack is still young though .
I might let my electrician have the wide boy in trade for a bunch of electric work .
I am kind of sad I don’t have more doe deer as silly as that sounds .
Most of my friends and family just want to eat them , but I enjoy holding a nice rack as well .
Maybe after we get a solid water spot for them and dial it up more we will see a bit of improvement on the ratio .
Need to figure out why we don’t have more fawns , I suspect a predator of some kind is lurking
To be sure I will try to remove that competition if I can .

**deltarat** · 08-18-2018, 10:28 PM

You are going to have some nice deer in a couple of years if you let them grow and your neighbors do as well.

**Ketchn** · 08-19-2018, 05:50 AM

I fear the neighbors my friend . I hear the one next door just wants meat and that typically gets ok bucks whacked . I would tend to think if they didn't have lots of pressure there would be at least one or 2 in that large of a group of bucks a lot older than what I am seeing so far .
That said its also a drought year and some might have looked much better with good eats . I don't think there is a buck older than 4.5 in there but its difficult to age them well sometimes . Teeth in a sandy location like that will lie to you and the wrinkles at the ear bases are saying most are pretty young animals at 2 to 3 years old .
To be sure they will be managed the best I can and not hit to terribly hard with harvests on our place .And in the end who knows ,there may be one we haven't seen or one close by that's a real show stopper , it could happen you know .

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