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Old 01-04-2003 | 04:01 AM
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cardeer
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Feeding verses starvation.Hey as a human being with a heart I'm going to feed them.I use goat feed,some corn,roasted soybeans,sorgum and varied grains.I dont use hay cause when it gets wet it molds,not good. Once you start dont stop.You have to dedicate yourself to do it everyday till spring. Worse then letting them starve is to start feeding then stop in the middle of the winter.I cant watch anything starve due to a bad winter.How would you feel if you were hungry and starving? And your neighbors with food refused to help you.I feed all the animals in my back yard.All the garbage that is food I put out in the woods behind my house.The coons,possums,skunks,rabbits, eat it up every night. Even the worms love the potatoe peels. Better then filling up the land fills.So I quess I'm at odds with the game commission on this.I can remember years ago when we had bad winters the PGC would helicopter drop hay.Now I know someone is boing to bring up the CWD issue.Hogwash this disease has been around since creation.It is just in the past several years they decided to check deer.If they would of checked deer 50 years ago they would of found a few cases also.I remember when the pigs in South texas in the mid eighties had a disease and the armadillos and lepersy.Hey nature took care of it.And there both back in large numbers.
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