pole peeling

[Baldbloke]

That's interesting. I have fenced over 70 properties for deer and I also design and sell complete deer handling systems; that is raceways, corrals and a building with all the penning to sort, weigh etc and recently developed my own hydraulic crush for the jobs like de-antering and artificial insemination. Did the deer eat all the larch bark or just knock it off?  If they ate it how hungry were they? I only have 100 acres and when fully stocked would be up around 300 deer at the end of summer. Now supposed to be semi-retired but as you know farmers never retire, we just work slower[emoji3] 

 

 

The posts offered lying on the ground were always green and best cut in the winter to ensure a good strip. We just assumed they liked the roughage from the bark which was missing from the grass and additional supplements (cheap potatoes/carrots/turnips) that we gave them. They always stripped them quicker if there was some snow on the ground. That year’s youngsters were always under cover for the winter, but the adults overwintered outside. The posts were turned maybe 4 times to become completely bark free.Just remembering how dangerous the spiker yearlings were when you shedded them out. Lots of homemade plyboard shields needed🤣 

The guy I worked for always did everything on the cheap, so we had to make do, mend and manufacture, but as a deer farmer whose been at it a while you probably know of him (through new blood stock buying/swapping requirements) as he was of a certain religious persuasion.......[emoji849]