Bad winter
Contributors to this thread:Whitetail Deer
From: LKH
28-Jan-18
We've had a strange winter for snow, etc. I'm 20 miles west of lewistown, MT. We had hard cold with bare ground that had high moisture. Then about a foot of snow, rain on that and then a partial melt. There are puddles all over and some pretty good glaciation.
The deer are in the yard, something that doesn't happen normally. I've got a pickup full of waste grain and have been helping them out.
Anyone else having this. I was raised in Int'l Falls, MN and I think this might be worse than the extreme cold and deep snow we had when I was young.
From: WV Mountaineer
28-Jan-18
Yep, if it is crusted over hard, it is deadly.
From: Scrappy
28-Jan-18
X2 buckiller, be better for them if you would cut down some young junk trees for them to browse on.
From: LKH
28-Jan-18
They eat grain from the fields around here all the time. Trouble is now it's buried in ice and crusted (I often don't break through) snow. There are a lot of deer and I spread it around. None get a full gut.
I would get notice of any deer dying from the eagles going in. 40-50 roost every night in a small group of cottonwoods on the neighbors.