Protein feeders are out but nothing!

Jeff in TX

This year I decided to put the two protein feeders out at the beginning of April.  After all you watch enough hunting shows, follow your game biologist's plan they say it really helps with antler growth.  I've pulled the camera SD cards over the last two months.  I've had a total on two does help them them selves on separate occasions.  Other than that a Jimmy Gymnastics mask bandit trying his best to get some.  

We have had another massive spring rain here.  The wild grasses and flowers are higher and thicker than I can ever remember.  Also, none of us are seeing many deer.  There's just so much natural foods for them, they're not going far for it.  

Should be seeing some fawns here anytime now!

JerryBobCo

I saw the first fawn of the season here a few days ago.  It could walk, but was wobbly, so I'm guessing it was about a day old.  There's someone who takes pictures and posts them to a community bulletin board.  She has seen and photographed a number of fawns this spring, including one set of triplets.

Linefinder

That happened to us more often than not in Louisiana. There was almost always enough natural forage year-round that food plots and feeders were way down the list of food preferences for deer. But that didn't keep us from sinking a ton of money and effort into it.

Mike

Jayhawker

Salt/Mineral blocks....No matter how much natural food was out there, deer were always hanging around the blocks we put out for the cattle...

tennmike

The massive and constant fall rains last year seem to have set back the rut here in East TN a couple of months. All the game camera pics around the feeders show heavily gravid does. All that constant rain must have made it hard for the bucks to find the does. Can't smell much when it's raining like you're underwater, I guess.

Johnny reb

tennmike said:

The massive and constant fall rains last year seem to have set back the rut here in East TN a couple of months. All the game camera pics around the feeders show heavily gravid does. All that constant rain must have made it hard for the bucks to find the does. Can't smell much when it's raining like you're underwater, I guess.

I’m in north East Tennessee. I watched 2 does get bred In January. One was on Jan-1 the other was 4-5 days later on different property. I got trail cam pics of a doe being bred around the end of January. November I didn’t see a lot of rut activity. There’s always a few does that don’t get bred on the first go around. They cycle again and get bred