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  1. 12-03-2022, 05:51 PM #1
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    The girls

    I hesitated to share this but here goes

    Thursday night I had a meeting which was followed by a dinner. The dinner was at a golf course/restaurant which is across the road from one of my fields--so we are neighbors on different roads. Shortly after leaving a little past nine, a herd of deer crossed the road in front of me, into my field. The next field will bring them to the barn. As I waited for them to cross I said (to myself), "you girls should not be out running around this late---you need to get home".

    From that point it is 0.6 miles on the road---about 400 yards through the field. As I pulled in at home, my headlights swept the field below the barn---the girls got home before me

    I wonder if they thought I should not be out that late
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    Why would you hesitate? Cool story!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike View Post
    Why would you hesitate? Cool story!
    I'm sure some will think that imaginary parental counseling of wild animals a bit strange----but at my age---so what
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    "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
    "Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
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    Widening of I-66 (now 12 lanes) has disrupted the deer traveling under it (used to be a huge stream bed in a pipe).. but we have Fox.. the kits still can’t jump the fence, won’t be long, but the adults can clear a 5 or 6 foot fence like a speed bump..

    Buy them some feed corn when it snows..
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    They have plenty of quality feed here---all winter long. I stop mowing the field below the barn about a month before expected frost, that assures an entire field of 6" +/- grass is available for them. Even in the midst of winter that dry grass has a pretty good protein content, much better than browse. That also helps to keep them away from the shrubs---which only become targets if we have a heavy snow cover. Our hired man does feed corn on occasion. I can always tell when he is out with the corn bucket---the deer literally run at a fast "trot" toward his house.
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    I had about a thimble of peanut butter left from bailing mouse traps.. placed peanut butter on top rail of fence, known squirrel freeway.. you should see the squirrel when the PB is discovered.. wowzers, they try and lick the galvanizing off of the rail!

    I feed the birds in med winter..
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