| Managing Your Neighbor's Standards As a landowner managing for a better deer herd, one of the most frustrating things you can deal with are neighbors that harvest young deer like this 1.5 year-old to the right. We can help to subtly convince them to adhere to managing the herd as you do. |
Mature White-Tailed Deer Management
United States Forestry & Wildlife Consulting, LLC
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| Predator Control When predator numbers get high, it may be necessary to control their numbers as well |
| Feeder Placement When not a danger of spreading disease, we'll help you place your feeders to help keep deer on your property and maximize sightings. |
| Buck to Doe Ratio The number of bucks to does is a critical management point. We can help you determine what your ratio is so that you may manage your herd accordingly. A balanced ratio results in a well-defined and intense rut. The shorter rutting period means that most all of the does will get bred at the same general time and the fawns will also be dropped at the same general time the following summer. This results in prey saturation where the predators are somewhat 'overwhelmed' with prey for a brief period. This shorter period of prey availability results in an overall higher survival rate and reduced loss to predation. |
| Nice, young buck, a trophy to most, but he really needs a few more years to grow! |
| Old-Age Bucks Ever wonder what it would be like to own a property where at least some of the bucks die of old-age rather than from 'lead poisoning'? We will help you lay out and design your property to where that chance is maximized. |
| Our Management Philosophy: We have a holistic approach to deer management that gives a buck sanctuary, optimal natural habitat nutrition and protects them from harvest until they have become mature animals while setting up your property to maximize your chances for hunting success through intelligent habitat management as well as strategic food plot placement, sizing and layout while trying to minimize the effects of other factors such as poaching, neighbors and natural processes. |
| Population & Buck:Doe Estimates Where allowed by law, we can conduct spotlight surveys on a regular basis to help determine population size and buck:doe ratio. We can also do camera surveys to help determine buck age structure and sex ratio. |
| Age Structure Age of your bucks is the most critical element when properly managing your buck herd. A well-balanced age structure in the male segment of the population reduces the stress they have during the rut. This results in less rut-related mortality amongst your bucks as well as healthier deer going into the following year. Suppressed breeding activity of younger bucks allows more of their energy to be put towards developing their bodies which results in better overall development and fitness. |
| FREE! Deer Harvest Data Sheet |
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| NEW SERVICE: Aging the bucks in your trail cam pictures!!! If you need help aging the bucks on your trail cam pictures, feel free to send them to trailcampics@usfwc.com We will gladly give our best estimate of age to help you manage your buck herd better. You will retain the copyright to all pictures that are sent. Since this is a free service, we will get to them as we can. When you send the pictures, please label each picture with a number or otherwise unique description and if you potentially have the same buck in several pictures, please advise us of such. We will also need the property location (state and a nearby city) as well as the date that the picture was taken. Please do not send more than 20 pictures and one e-mail before receiving a response that we have received and aged the ones that have been sent. Thank you; I hope we can help! |
