Mulies on my alfalfa stand

nvbroncrider

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Aug 20, 2011
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Well, the state will thank you for feeding their deer. Alfalfa fields are magnets for mulies. I know one field nearby on which I've ceased counting at 200!
 
Alfalfa works great on WT deer too. The fields are full of deer.

JD338
 
Yes deer in the south eastern part of our province can be a real problem as well, not only the eating of hay but they will pee on it and the cattle will not eat it.
An number of years ago there was a cull hunt on does and a 52' trailer with a reefer on it was filled with whitetail deer in a matter of a few days. The deer were butchered and given to care homes and senior complexes :) .

Blessings,
Dan
 
I take at least a whitetail doe off an alfalfa field each year. That becomes my meat for special guests.
 
If a guy had a tag for that area what would be the chances of getting a little help with his hunt?
 
Its sad the deer are all trained to live on the agriculture. You get up on the mountain where the deer are supposed to live and someplaces you can not find any deer. They have lost the knowledge of the migration. A main cause of the muledeer crash, stupid agriculture dependent deer. This time of year most deer should be on summer range, The alfalfa is where winter range used to be.
 
Mule deer are Migrating deer, Unlike most whitetail. If Muledeer lose the knowledge of the migration, They die. When the cheap hydropower was spread by the rural electricifcation program. To remote winter range areas, Then ranchers drilled wells and started irrigating Alfalfa on an industrail scale. Over the decades since, the muledeer has dramaticly died off in some areas. Muledeer are not whitetail. Trying to manage them the same will grow whitetail where they overlap, kill off the muledeer where they do not.
 
There are two herds of mulies within 10 miles of where I live. As far as I can tell, they stay generally in the same area but I'm sure they cross into each others herd now and then. During the summer it is not unusal to see some white tails with the mulies and vise versa. There are some alfalfa fields in the area, but there are lots of milo, wheat, and corn fields as well. The food is there, the water is there, so why would they move?
 
Does deprediation = preditor-only hunts to take down the large numbers of preditors?

Kansas has year-round coyote season. All you have to have is a hunting license. You can also shoot 'yotes from inside your vehicle. I think this was adopted so farmers / ranchers would not lose time getting out of a vehicle to shoot a coyote. Decades ago the coyotes were such a problem in KS that a county sheriff would give cash for coyote ears brough to his office. I think the bounty was $2 for two ears. My grandma often told me about cutting the ears off a coyote she hit with a car. As a kid, I would hear yellping and howling all the time at around sundown, but that is not the case anymore as there are fewer coyotes than 40ish years ago.
 
I can remember as a boy people running dogs for coyotes in southeast Kansas and even shooting from planes. They were hunted pretty hard in those days. Wolves are that way up here. Bounty on a wolf is pretty good right now and I note that many outfitters will throw in a wolf tag free if you are contracted for moose and/or elk.
 
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