Farmer spreading cow manure while I'm in sitting in my treestand.
Farmer spreading cow manure while I'm in sitting in my treestand.
11-24-2012, 12:16 PM
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Florence, SC
Posts: 102
My farmer sees more deer than I do. Deer love tractors. Hell sometimes if I havent seen a deer in a while I will hook my disc up and do a few laps around the field I plan on hunting later that afternoon. A lot of times they will come out as soon as I finish.
I guess they have learned to assiciate tractor noise with food. In the spring the tractor comes and plants seeds and they eat them when they start coming up and at the end of the season combine cuts everything and leaves behind scraps. So they are not only used to the nosie of a tractor but associate it with food.
I guess they have learned to assiciate tractor noise with food. In the spring the tractor comes and plants seeds and they eat them when they start coming up and at the end of the season combine cuts everything and leaves behind scraps. So they are not only used to the nosie of a tractor but associate it with food.
11-25-2012, 05:35 AM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Posts: 2,186
I would find that activity aggravating too .... but heh, he is making his family's living on that land and if it is manure spreading time, well it just is. And personally, I'd be thankful that I had permission to hunt his place. Besides it has been my experience that game become accustomed to normal farming activities .... tractors running, combines coming through harvesting ... even poop spreading !
11-25-2012, 07:16 AM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 1,834
I have almost killed more coyotes from our tractors growing up than I have on foot!!!!! When we cut or raked hay, cut beans or chopped corn, the yotes were all over the place. Some of them would get so close we almost ran them over getting to mice, rats n rabbits.
We didn't farm near timber to have this experience with deer. As long as you don't stop while they are close, they don't pay you a lick of mind.
Besides, that smell of manure to that farmer is the smell of money!!!!
We didn't farm near timber to have this experience with deer. As long as you don't stop while they are close, they don't pay you a lick of mind.
Besides, that smell of manure to that farmer is the smell of money!!!!
Last edited by SecondChance; 11-27-2012 at 11:44 AM.
11-26-2012, 03:06 AM
#7
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 1,926
Well if you were the farmer...
you'd be spreading the cow manure, instead of the farmer.
Deer are more use to that scent than your's. In an urban setting, I saw deer not far from a loud leaf blower in an apartment complex. The deer were more use to the sound of leaf blowers, than anyone walking through the woods.
Deer are more use to that scent than your's. In an urban setting, I saw deer not far from a loud leaf blower in an apartment complex. The deer were more use to the sound of leaf blowers, than anyone walking through the woods.
