The season has come to an end and its hard to believe. Fast paced and off to a good start for hunters across the country but now its another long wait til the next open season in the fall of 2012.
Well what do you do until then?
Lets take a look at minerals and how they will not only increase bone on a buck but the health of fawns, doe lactation and increased body growth for BIG up and comers.
Blaze is a herd management tool that should be started in the spring and used throughout the year. As soon as the spring hits and snow is melting that is the time you need to get 10 lbs of mineral on a stump just like this.
Tune in weekly for our Soft Tracks Tip of the Week teaching you how to implement simple projects to bring deer in close during the fall months.
After very little time the deer will find the location of that stump due to our potent scent that has been added to the Rack Stacker Mineral formulas.
It wont take long before they will have that stump distroyed by chewing and knawing at the stump to get its offerings. You will need to top this location up annually but may need it earlier based on your local herd population.
Here are a couple nice photos taken from a local management farm with a Mineral Location that deer frequent regularly during the off season.
If you would like to take that one step closer to helping your local herd then you should be thinking about putting in a food plot. These much needed resources can help your herd get over the winter hurdle. Food is the utmost importance when it comes to maintaining a deer herd and you need to make sure they have enough to get through the winter.
Talk to the guys in the camp and come up with a management plan for next year. You’ll be happy you did it and if there are any questions don’t hesitate to drop us a line we would love to help you put together your goals for the upcoming year.
Do Food Plots work??
You bet your bone it does!!!
If your a Canadian and want a seed blend that works in our climates look no further then the Rack Stacker Food Plots.Rack Stacker Food Plots has its own unique balance of seeds exclusive to Rack Stacker. We have designed these seeds for specific situations in the field. Have you used U.S seed before and been disappointed? other Canadian hunters have been unsuccessful in their plantings. Our seeds will grow in Canada with the right preperation. Containing Canadian Certified seeds you won’t go wrong with planting our plots in Canada.
Ever wonder why Canada is not on the packaging of U.S produced food plot mixes? It’s because our soils are different and need specific seeds to be productive.
Field Edge. A late season carry over food that you won’t believe.
We use unique seeds like a Kale Hybrid that grows up to 3′ tall and certain varieties of seed that produce HUGE results. Talk about Tonnage of food.
You won’t find another Clover forage that will grow half the size of your palm!
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Tonnage, Tonnage, Tonnage! 6-8 tons of forage per acre if planted properly. Do your soil tests, its not a corner that can be cut if you looking for maximum results.
You will be blown away at how much tonnage of food is produced with our mixes. Certified seeds to grow in Canadian soils.
Proper help and service to the products that you purchase and help you become a better hunter and a deer manager. Growing big plots means growing big deer!
These are Canadian made Food Plots made to produce.
DON’T Settle for Less. Buy Rack Stacker!!!
FEEDING WHITETAIL DEER
There’s a few things you should know.
Feeding corn or hay to deer can do more harm than good. It will bring on Rumenitis – an inflamation of the rumen often caused by Carbohydrate engorgment.
Feed facts!
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Corn in the field contains up to 50% moisture while corn from the mill ONLY has 14%. Its harder for your deer to digest corn that you put out for them during the winter months without having adequate moisture.
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If adequate moisture is not in the feed that you are giving your local herd then Rumenitis may occur. Feed may ferment in the Rumen before being fully digested, often putting deer into a coma and killing the deer your feeding.
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During the Canadian winter months Whitetail Deers water consumption drops dramatically once Lakes, Rivers and Creeks freeze up. Typically in Janurary through March. If your feeding you local herd straight corn with a lower moisture content, your deers Rumen is having to work harder to digest that feed. This will do numerous chain reactions in the body of the whitetail deer.
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First – the deer will go and bed with a full stomach. Being a Rumenant animal (4 stomach of digestion) they regurgitate thier food numberous times to break it down and to get out all the needed energy, carbohydrates, fat, protein as well as fibre out of the food. With food digested on a daily basis the deers stomach create heat. (keeping them warm)
Second – While the deer is regurgitating that food it is thinking that everything is fine and that it trying to burn out the normal winter months and waiting until spring but in fact, the moisture level is not in the feed to digest the corn that it had ingested hours before and now is robbing the body of much needed moisture in order to digest it.
Third - Now the corn is past the digest period, the deer still knows that it has feed in its stomach and is probably starting to feel some pain. Fermentation starts to happen in the Rumen. This is called “Rumenitis”.
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Bad toxins are sent through the body of the deer. The deers body reacts and could cause coma and even death. It often takes 12-18 hours for this to happen so you won’t know whats going on.
Feeding your deer hay/clover/alfalfa mixtures during the winter could be harmful too
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Whitetail deer need certain micro-organisms to break down the clovers and alfalfas. Because Whitetail deer feeding habits change daily their body adjusts to what it is eaten. If Janurary comes, its been a bad winter and you think well they where in the alfalfa field why don’t I through out a bale to help out. DONT. During that time of year moisture content is up and the deer are use to eating fresh greens and their body can slowly adapt to what they are eating but it has been found in the past that deer (especially yearling deer) don’t have this organism during the winter months to break down the feed you have given them. The deer have a full stomach of feed and don’t feel that they need to eat. Their stomach stays full because their body does not digest it, resulting in starvation. Do you want to help out naturally? Cut some fire wood for yourself and drag the limbs to a feeding area. Deer are also attracted to an area where a chainsaw has been they know what is going on.
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There are feeds on the market that are sold at co-ops and local feed mills. They call them rations, and are often that. Sweepings from the floors, often the mix changes on a weekly basis and is inconsistant. you can’t control anything that you are feeding your deer. I have even seen flipped beef tags that are fermented with “deer” on the back side writen in pen. I can understand the co-op trying to make their money back but it isn’t fare to the deer.
Rackstacker Buck
This photo was taken in July 2008
This photo was taken in March 2009
