Winter Kill

[Smokinyotes]

With the volume of snow that we have and now warm weather and rain Mother Nature is setting up for a pretty significant winter kill of our deer herds I believe.

As soon as we get colder temps the coyotes will be able to run on the snow making the deer easy pickens..
The deer are really starting to come into bale yards and without this supplemental feed I think the winter kill could be as bad as ten years ago.

What do you guys think?

[ram crazy]

The Pronghorn are doing just fine, just seen a couple hundred head all packed together. Deer are looking ok too.

[KegRiver]

It's not a good year to be a Deer.

I haven't seen a track in my yard in two weeks. That's the longest it's gone without fresh tracks since we moved here 11 years ago.

No rain here yet, but the snow is up to their bellies already and we have three more months of snow coming.

[Smoky buck]

It’s not off to a good start but a lot can change and I am going to try to be optimistic

Only time will tell but it’s not going to be an easy winter for them

[Big Lou]

I agree. The stage was set with the quantity of snow so far. Big cold snap. Now the rain and warm temps. Time will tell, but it’s not looking good.

[pikeslayer22]

One thing they have going for them is the coyote population is way down at the moment

[Smoky buck]

Originally Posted by pikeslayer22

One thing they have going for them is the coyote population is way down at the moment

In my areas the wolf and cougar populations are high. I would trade for coyotes any day

Really need cougar season to start in November not December