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rhudson

03-27-2001 14:32:03




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this always breaks my heart. we have white tail deer in virginia. the small deer stay put when their mothers are not around. i,ve cut up four in the past 8 years cutting hay. man it kills me to see a little deer running with three legs and bleeting for its mother. last year my son was with me when it happened. anyway you got the picture, now is there any way to prevent this? anything i could do several days in advance to cutting a field? thanks

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Tom

03-31-2001 15:53:18




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 Re: deer hay cutting in reply to rhudson, 03-27-2001 14:32:03  
Yeah, I like animals too. I crushed a kitten last year when pulling a flail mower out of the shed. The mother cat sat out there for at least a day waiting for that kitten to show up.

Whenever I use that flail mower now, I first pick it up, give it a shake, then go out.



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Alvin NE WI

03-28-2001 18:57:46




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 Re: deer hay cutting in reply to rhudson, 03-27-2001 14:32:03  
We get a couple of deer through the rollers each year,if you can't see them you can't stop, get a nest or two of turkeys, ducks also like to nest in a hay field. Can't really worry about them too much or no work would get done,. I always told my son what ever goes thru the rollers is no problen unless it is a skunk. PEWWWWUUUUU UUUUU UU~!!



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shawn

03-28-2001 15:24:58




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 Re: deer hay cutting in reply to rhudson, 03-27-2001 14:32:03  
I don't know if it will work but I know that deer have a great nose so if you go out A day or two before and releave your self or spray something around the deer might move. I know that is what happens when the deer smell me hunting.It is worth A try.



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Elden Denning

03-27-2001 19:54:34




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 Re: deer hay cutting in reply to rhudson, 03-27-2001 14:32:03  
Hey, you can only do what you can do, it's hard to injure baby animals for sure but you have a right to work your crops. Any of you fellers notice any deer damage in the corn you didn't get shelled last fall? Do the rodents think about you when they carry off your grain and undermine your building foundations? About 20 years ago I was plowing a field next to a woodlot and I threw up the backfurrow on the land next to the woods and plowed a fox den out but good. Old Mama Fox stood in that furrow on the next round and read me the riot act. That old Super M didn't scare her a bit. Well, I pulled out right there and watched her pack her four kits to the woods one at a time and felt good about it. That's all you can do is give 'em a fair break-right??

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Ray,IN

03-27-2001 18:51:05




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 Re: deer hay cutting in reply to rhudson, 03-27-2001 14:32:03  
That gives me a horrible feeling too.I don't know how well it worked, but a friend made a 2in. pipe into a flushing tool. He attached lengths of chain to the pipe and attached the pipe to the front bumper of his tractor.The pipe stuck out the same as the 7ft. mower and supposedly flushed the quail, rabbit, etc. before he ran over them. I guess he mounted/demounted the pipe each time he entered/left a field. I don't think I could react fast enough to stop for a frightened fawn though.

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paul

03-27-2001 22:40:39




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 Re: Re: deer hay cutting in reply to Ray,IN, 03-27-2001 18:51:05  
This is recommended by the DNR here in Minnesota for areas with nesting birds. Don't know if it works for deer.

I ALWAYS gotta watch for my cats, they love hunting the spots I mow. Dad got several, knock on wood, I been lucky so far....

Cut a skunk in half with the swather once - whew!

--->Paul



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AGEN

03-27-2001 17:58:28




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 Re: deer hay cutting in reply to rhudson, 03-27-2001 14:32:03  
I am not sure if this really works or not, but numerous people have told me that if you mow a round or two around the outside of the hay patch you plan to cut on the day/evening before you plan to mow it, deer will move their fawns out of the area. I don't see why this would work, but I've been told it does. Of course, this doesn't apply to rodents and skunks, etc. but deer anyway. The worst that ever happened to me was running a skunk through a mower conditioner and have it hang up (alive) between the rollers all the way to one end of the rollers. Getting that little booger unstuck (and then put out of its missery) was no fun for either of us.

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Charlie

03-27-2001 16:13:31




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 Re: deer hay cutting in reply to rhudson, 03-27-2001 14:32:03  
I know the feeling. I've hit a cat and a nest of phesants before. Its hard to avoid as small animals can hide so well in tall grass and often won't move until the last second when its too late. The only idea I have is to cut slowly and hope you have time to react when you see something laying in the path.



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Johnny

03-27-2001 17:44:17




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 Re: Re: deer hay cutting in reply to Charlie, 03-27-2001 16:13:31  
During the 1988 hay season I ran over 4 baby skunks as they came out of their hole, cut all the legs out from under them on accident. We ran these tractors pretty fast as we were custom baling. I don't run my tractor that fast nowday's but you still have to run pretty fast to get the grass to drop out. So I don't know the answer? but it is a shame sometimes, kinda like roadkill in the meadow.



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