Folks who understand farming: going to several towns away for imaging, I drove past miles & miles of fields with corn stalks recently cut down to about a foot high.
I also observed an inordinate amount of dead deer on the side of the road. Is there a correlation?
I’ve never seen so many dead animals. Upsetting. Wondering if the dry fields are pushing them to find water?
Or is this city girl just making up things?
Wondering if these deer hid in the corn stalks
@LnzyHou Harvesting produces a certain amount of waste grain. They were probably foraging at night. A lot of wildlife does. Migrating geese depend on stubble fields to fuel themselves. I know that, during hunting season (before harvest), hunters lay for deer on game trails leading into and out of corn fields. They also set up hunting blinds in stubble fields for geese.
@LnzyHou That was pretty much SOP where I grew up. Two reasons. Assholes with guns on your land are a property hazard. Also, in the migration flyways, farmers charge a pretty penny for the privilege....and monitor it closely.
@LnzyHou My litmus test would be if you see "Hunting by Permission Only" signs sprinkled in with the "Private Property" signs.
Thx for education
Still, that level of wasted meat doesn't track. Yes, farmers will rightfully defend their crops, but localities tend to coordinate with say, Fish & Game, to have licensed area hunters who want the meat, take care of the culling. All those carcasses laying about only create more problems.
@fugitive247 I think what she's seeing is mostly roadkill, with the odd poached deer that the poacher can't recover. Some farmers (a lot of them) just don't want hunters on their land, period. It's their right, and I can't say I blame them. @LnzyHou
I can't blame them, either. As far as No Hunting zones, in my neck o' #TheOzarks it's understood by the locals that properties whose perimeters are lined by trees with purple rings painted around their trunks are prohibited areas. Why aren't signs posted? Many can't afford to buy them; paint is more cost-effective.
@fugitive247 There was a guy I knew in Michigan that had a small herd of beef cattle grazing a corner of his land. Mostly he farmed beans, corn, and wheat. He got tired of his cattle being shot at, so he painted "COW" on them. Both sides. Two of them were killed afterward. Shot dead center through the "O". A LOT of farmers have no use for "hunters", and for good reason. @LnzyHou
@fugitive247 In my experience, most guys with guns in the field, in or out of season, are assholes. I quit hunting myself after being shot at by a "hunter" for the second time in two years. @LnzyHou
Wow! I am so sorry that happened to you. Even once is too much, but *twice*!?
😲 O.M.G. 🤬
@fugitive247 Quote from the first incident: "I thought it was a rabbit." Yeah, a 260 pound rabbit wearing a blaze-orange vest, and carrying a double-barrel shotgun. 🙄 @LnzyHou
She saw two big bucks down.
@LnzyHouThe added hazard is that this is mating season. Bucks are moving around a lot chasing mates. @fugitive247
True that. This could quite likely have been a contributing factor to 23's near-miss wreck last Sunday. 🤔
When I lived CO, we reported all animal deaths to police while driving. Usually gone by return trip home.
I am astonished to see carcasses getting hit & rehit in NJ.
@LnzyHou Same up in Ohio. Down here in Kentucky, not so much. They lay in the road until they rot and end up surrounded by road-killed buzzards who were looking for lunch.@fugitive247
Very hard on children & other animal lovers like me.
@LnzyHou White trash don't even blink. I've learned to look away. @fugitive247
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In NH you can call F&W and they will pick up. "Good" carcasses they freeze for meat processing classes.
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Noticed signs went up saying Private Property. Guessed it was to keep hunters off their land.