" has a number of different schools of thought, and some evidence-based answers. There’s the assumption that big, old bucks live back in the deepest, nastiest swamps and thickets they can find. Maybe some do, but most don’t. When it comes todeer bedding areas, bucks develop personalit...
protected areas near a water source or an open area hidden from plain view. We have found bedding areas in strange places- even surrounded by briar thickets, or behind a fallen tree. The deer want a safe place to sleep. Once you find an obvious bedding spot, ...
Bedding areas are key to figuring out where the deer are most likely to be found at ease and still. Trampled grass or depressions in the snow or dirt can indicate a location where deer are sleeping. Concentrated areas of urine, droppings, rubbing and scratching can indicate that a bedding ...
July and August spotlighting trips allow Infalt to identify what quality of bucks are in the area, which helps him set his standards for the year. In-season shining is used to dial-in buck patterns and bedding areas. “Often if a buck is using a certain field just after dark, that ...
seed. You can also buy bedding plants at nurseries and garden centers in the springtime. If you grow strawflower hybrids and allow your plants to self-sow in the garden, the seedlings may not grow true-to-seed. You can’t predict how the offspring will look, but it’s fun to be ...
I noticed that mange almost always spreads to family members: it tends to run in families because these are individuals who indeed do cozy up and share their bedding areas. I know several families where every family member has it. I also have seen individuals spoke off from their families an...
(even some really big, old deer who simply don’t like to mix it up) decide to move elsewhere. And not all this movement comes from a fear of fighting; some bucks simply change core areas, switching from a summer range to a fall spot they likely know well and feel comfortable...
check other areas of your body to see if those too were affected. Biting midges are highly opportunistic and will attack the surfaces that are the most exposed. But, if you happened to be wearing loose-fitting clothes that day, the biting midges could have gone after other areas of your ...
For more ideas, read the comments below and check out this handout I developed to help people identify and plant vigorous natives. It usually accompanies a talk on the subject, and now you can have it for free:How to Fight Plants with Plants: The Handout ...
to apply the same methods to identify the presence of the “Big 7” serotypes in the different types of matrices. The presence of STEC in calves has been reported in a few studies [37,38,39], but, to the best of our knowledge, this approach was never thought to be a way to identi...