G-n-B better get to managing that heard! Ratio seems a tad off!

I understand that but so many groups that I have talked to only allow large mature bucks and no other animals. I think that it is more previlent than we think. Land we have in NFl. is next such a club that its over run with does and inferior bucks. We have basically gone to the if its brown its down the past couple of years and still have them everywhere.

[ Three common practices include natural vegetation management, food plots, and supplemental feeding.


Now this is copied from the QDM homepage. But you are telling me not to grow food plots or supplemental feed? Help me to understand?

BSK, I hear what your saying but read this:
Habitat Management
Whitetail Nutritional Needs

Improving the nutrition available to a deer herd is another important component of QDM. The diet of a healthy herd should contain 12-18 percent protein and adequate levels of calcium, phosphorous, and other important nutrients. Although whitetails can maintain themselves on lower quality diets, antler development, body growth, and reproductive success suffer. Fortunately, several techniques are available to increase nutrition to desirable levels. Three common practices include natural vegetation management, food plots, and supplemental feeding.


Now this is copied from the QDM homepage. But you are telling me not to grow food plots or supplemental feed? Help me to understand?

BSK, I hear what your saying but read this:
Habitat Management
Whitetail Nutritional Needs

Improving the nutrition available to a deer herd is another important component of QDM. The diet of a healthy herd should contain 12-18 percent protein and adequate levels of calcium, phosphorous, and other important nutrients. Although whitetails can maintain themselves on lower quality diets, antler development, body growth, and reproductive success suffer. Fortunately, several techniques are available to increase nutrition to desirable levels. Three common practices include natural vegetation management, food plots, and supplemental feeding.


Now this is copied from the QDM homepage. But you are telling me not to grow food plots or supplemental feed? Help me to understand?

And then it should not be hunted if it is intended to help the deer herd. Once you hunt a food plot, it loses its' value in terms of herd health.

I guess we better tell the deer that. Also, what about plots that are designed specifically for killing deer?

The in my opinion, it becomes bait. A food plot thatis hunted results in a dead deer. How is that different from one starving to death? Both deer are dead. Very few deer in TN need a food plot or a feeder. The reason for every food plot I have ever seen is to attract deer to be shot. To me thatr is baiting.