Whitetail Fawn Mortality Increase

[Texan-in-Training]

Ran across this article earlier today and thought it should be shared.
I'm not a GMO fanatic, so that's not why I'm posting it. I do wonder about the chemical additives in the bagged deer corn I buy, though.
Don't know... Any thoughts?

https://fishgame.com/2018/01/something-unknown-killing-whitetail-fawns-gmos/

 

[BRD@66]

May be due to hay cutters.

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[grasshopperglock]

Unless you grow your own corn. It's GMO. From sweet corn to feed corn. Monsanto supplies the seeds for the super farms. When you drive by a corn field. They sometimes have a small sign saying what seed it is. When you see those signs, look up the seed. Who produces it? Who owns the company that produced it?

I don't know of a corn at the grocery store that's not GMO. That includes every other product. From corn oil to corn tortillas. GM-fu¢king O. They even fu¢ked up Oatmeal.

Test have been performed using rats. No matter what Monsanto says. It's unproven as being safe.

 

[DwnRange]

Interesting article - as here on the farm use of deer corn and 14% protein pellets, which is measured in tons/per year, (as we run 6 Cox feeders during deer season and 3 all year round along with the protein pellet in creep feeders- as deer can eat a 100# of pellets every 3 days if I allow it). That along with the 1/2 dozen food plots of various types, it is troubling to think that our efforts may be detrimental to the actual care we thought we were giving.

 

[Texasjack]

“I believe the main cause is increased predation on fawns,” Adams said.

One of the neighbors of our deer lease reported that he saw 2 boars fighting over a fawn carcass last spring.

 

[Younggun]

GMOs are nothing new. Humans have been messing with the genetics of corn since we decided to settle in to communities and grow basic crops centuries ago.

That said, Monsanto is a shit company and it's damn near impossible to boycott them. They have a hand in 90% of the crap you buy at the grocery store.

 

[Vaquero]

Look.
We've seen a boom in rodents in the past few years.
That led to a boom in predators.
The rodent population has declined, and continues to do so.
The excess population of coyote and bobcat are going to eat or starve. Toss the feral hogs in to the mix, and fawns lose.

Blame corn if you want to. Just think about real continuous, sustaining ecology for a minute.

 

[Younggun]

It's a miracle they've survived the fire ants and haven't gone the way of quail.

I'm more concerned that all the deer around here seem to only move after dark this year. It's like they know...

 

[Senor John Seven Six two]

This whole deer season I rarely saw any deer until past dusk, when I turned my attention to hogs. Definitely only saw young does during the day. Cameras obviously saw much more.

 

[Dawico]

Sure seems like the number splattered on the road is higher lately too.

We should really move those deer crossing signs off the highways so they quit crossing in such dangerous areas.......

 

[Charlie Primero]

No matter what Monsanto says. It's unproven as being safe.

I admit, Glyphosate scares me. We see:

• Monsanto ghost-writing MSM articles defending it.
• Obama appointing Monsanto Executives to the FDA
• FDA Commissioners leaving FedGov to join Monsanto for big salaries.
• Glyphosate banned in a LOT of countries.
• Large increase in weird sicknesses seemingly related to it.

Just because your Wife comes home drunk smelling like men's cologne at 6 a.m. every Saturday morning from "Friday after-work drinks with the girls", and you find receipts for cheap motels in her purse does NOT mean she's having an affair, but you should start paying close attention.

 

[Double Naught Spy]

I blame fracking.

 

[Davetex]

Sounds like the Jericho series. Jennings & Rall were the bad guys.

 

[jmohme]

Sure seems like the number splattered on the road is higher lately too.

We should really move those deer crossing signs off the highways so they quit crossing in such dangerous areas.......

I had to make 2 early morning trips from my house to the Houston area. It was like a war zone with all the deer, both live and dead on and along side the road.

 

[jmohme]

Sorry. It posted twice.

 

[TheDan]

I admit, Glyphosate scares me.

It's great when used in a targeted manner. It certainly shouldn't be sprayed on hundreds of acres. "Resistant" doesn't mean immune or zero side effects.

 

[Younggun]

Makes you tough.